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5 Unusual Things to be Grateful For That Can Teach You Powerful Life Lessons
Hidden gems that give you wisdom
Every morning, I write down three things I’m grateful for.
When you learn how to practice gratitude, you can apply it in different directions.
You can use gratitude to understand that your life isn’t so bad and this will help you when you feel down. You can also use gratitude to keep yourself from always wanting more and never being happy.
There’s also an unusually powerful form of gratitude that few people practice. We don’t practice it because it seems strange to be grateful for some of the things I’m about to mention. It seems strange to be grateful for the things I’m about to mention because of the way you’ve learned to view the past, present, and future.
You almost always tend to draw the wrong lessons from the past and apply them to the present, which leads to a worse future, thus starting the loop all over again.
It’s never the events in your life themselves, but the way you interpret them that causes you to create these self-fulfilling prophecies.
What if there was a way to make every moment of your life useful?