Let Thankfulness and Gratefulness Change Your Perspective
Changing your mindset can shift your life.
“Your perception creates your reality. You can look at life and see scarcity or abundance. It depends on your mindset.” ~ Joe Vitale
Hello friends,
I hope my newsletter can help to motivate you on your path to self-discovery and healing. I wanted to discuss how changing your perspective can change your life. When you start on your journey to reclaimimg yourself, it will feel daunting sometimes. Where do I start? How can I get out of my rut? How will I overcome all my problems? “Perspective” is the perfect place to start. Other people’s thoughts can alter our own, so try and surround yourself with positivity during your journey back to you! Read this one minute piece called “You Need to Hear This Today”
Changing Your Perspective:
We all look at things differently. One person looks at a rose and sees its thorns and thinks about pain. Another looks at the same flower and sees beauty and feels joy. When we talk to people and listen to them complain or we watch the news and hear about all the tragedies going on in the world; it affects the way we perceive things. Subconsciously we start to focus on all the bad things going on around us. We look at the glass being half empty and become cynical.
Have you ever gotten together with a friend or family member and afterward felt so dejected because the person gossiped about others and was so critical that it left you feeling depleted? There is a quote that says, “a negative mind will not give you a positive life.” So when we surround ourselves with negative, unhappy people, we will start to create the same. We do absorb others’ energy and make it our own, especially if we are an empath. So be careful what and who you allow in your life. Misery loves company. Some people may want to drag you under. Don’t let them!
When we look at the positive, we see miracles around us. There is always something to be thankful for. When studying how people transform their lives, they talk about how they changed their thinking. When we begin the day with gratitude, we will train ourselves to focus on the good and not the bad. When we slow down and focus on ourselves, we will see the beauty in life again. Check out this piece on Seeing Beauty in the Ordinary
When I started my journey, I was in a place where I felt sad, overwhelmed and alone. I was living in San Francisco. Outwardly my life looked pretty amazing. Friends saw me living in various states, traveling, staying at posh hotels, and going to fancy restaurants. They would say to me that they wanted my life. But what we present to the world on the outside is sometimes completely different than what’s going on internally.
I had many pessimistic people projecting their issues on me. I was being force-fed negativity, and my consumption of it was choking me. I was overflowing with others’ despair, and it continually brought me into their bleak abyss. I needed to stop giving so much, focus on me, go within and reclaim my life.
My thoughts are what transformed me. I knew I needed to shut out the outside noise. You can be a positive person, but you can’t stay that way when others are bringing you down. I limited what I wanted to be exposed to. I protected my energy, relearned how important it was to have boundaries and shut off the news. While having my coffee, I would sit or walk outside and spend some quiet time in nature, focusing on the beauty around me.
Sometimes it would only be for five minutes, but that tiny pause of gratitude and introspection assisted me in reshaping my mindset slowly. I would make a mental note of what I was grateful for, how many blessing I had in my life, how far I had come, and all I had accomplished. While practicing gratitude daily, the fog slowly lifted, and I began to catch glimpses of what I wanted my future to look like
. Please read this article about boundaries and how important they are. Click here!
“You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective.” ~ Demi Lovato
Remember you are not forced to stay on the path you are on now. There are no wrong paths. What’s right for someone else may not be right for you. Stop comparing your life’s expedition to others. Focus on your desires, set out in the direction that you want to go and don’t look back! Please read this short article.
During your journey you may face some road blocks and redirections, but you will always end up exactly where you are supposed to be, with the people who are meant to be in your life. We will always face problems. But we can also experience happiness during those dark times, if we can recognize that the lessons that we have learned along the way were really blessing.
You are not alone on your journey. I am here to motivate you, help you, and clap for you. You can connect with me here on Substack or on Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Instagram, The Goodmen Project, and TikTok. My email is victoriagreggwriter@gmail.com, if you’d like to schedule a personal session to help redirect your life. I truly believe the best is still yet to come and we all can aspire to become our authentic selves and live our best lives.
There are definitely miracles around us ❤️ Nice to connect with you here!
Thanks and same here. 😊