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  • greenspirit May 2, 2012 @ 6:29 pm | delete
    Wonderfully inspirational lens *Angel Blessings*
  • willingnesstolearn Apr 20, 2012 @ 12:31 am | delete
    Excellent seed planting lens on the power of Gratitude! Much time and experience went into this lens...
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  • haikuwedding Dec 11, 2010 @ 4:48 pm | delete
    Thanks very much for this lens of gratitude. Beautifully presented.
  • Tipi Nov 19, 2010 @ 12:15 pm | delete
    I'm so grateful for this that I'm lensrolling to my Bible Coloring Books and Free Motifs! Choose It! Spirituality! lens. Blessings....
  • Tipi Nov 19, 2010 @ 12:10 pm | delete
    We all have so much to be grateful for and we take a lot for granted. A gratitude journal is a great idea to keep us focused on how much we have in our lives like good drinking water! I appreciate your work here and your inspiration. I feel a song coming on! "Give thanks with a grateful heart, give thanks to the holy one.......
  • TamaraKajari Nov 7, 2010 @ 4:20 pm | delete
    I'm grateful for being grateful and not being ashamed to admit it. Thank you for spreading positive thinking in times of too much negativity around us.
  • JoyfulPamela Nov 4, 2010 @ 4:27 pm | delete
    I thank you for the beautiful thoughts and ideas you've shared! =D
  • Alexwinnipeg Nov 3, 2010 @ 3:13 pm | delete
    I am grateful for these Winnipeg apartments for rent where I live, I am also grateful for the means I have to get the money to pay the rent, and I am starting to get grateful for this post of yours! thank you!
  • moonlitta Nov 3, 2010 @ 7:21 am | delete
    Thank you, too... :)
  • silver_pheonix Oct 16, 2010 @ 11:25 pm | delete
    every morning, as I'm getting ready for the day, I think about what I'm doing and say thank you for it. Everytime I see something beautiful or awe-inspiring, I remember to be grateful. I've only been doing this a couple weeks, and already have seen a huge difference in my daily living.
    Thank you for spreading the word :)
  • Carole11 Oct 6, 2010 @ 8:37 pm | delete
    Great lens! I am grateful that I found it! Thanks for the positive outlook...you know what they say...today is a gift as it is...that's why it's called the present!
  • aka_sakabato Oct 3, 2010 @ 7:15 am | delete
    Love this lens, I read the same thing on The Secret and being trying to practice it. Your lens refresh my determinations. I am grateful that someone create this lens and I am grateful to stumble upon it.
  • LindaJM Sep 25, 2010 @ 11:48 pm | delete
    What a breath of fresh air! I very much enjoyed my time browsing through your lens this evening! Thanks!
  • ShirlW Sep 20, 2010 @ 6:09 am | delete
    We should indeed count our blessings - well done, positive lens.
  • CDT Sep 20, 2010 @ 5:46 am | delete
    You are absolutely right - if we just stop for a minute and think each and every one of us could write a long list of things to be grateful for...the trouble is that we left "life" get in the way and spend way too much time focusing on all the annoying bad things, that we miss all the good ones! Blessed by a SquidAngel :)
  • RebeccaE Sep 18, 2010 @ 9:51 pm | delete
    many grateful thanks for this lens, it is so positive, I can't begin to express how great this is, bravo!
  • decapod Sep 18, 2010 @ 7:12 am | delete
    What a great lens! I was thinking of doing something similar, a gratitude journal sounds like a great idea. I also believe that thoughts are things, and whatever you create, you get more of.
  • LotusMalas Sep 17, 2010 @ 7:23 am | delete
    Wonderful message - thank you!
  • familystorykeeper Sep 13, 2010 @ 9:02 pm | delete
    Every day I write down in a journal five things I am grateful for. I also started a blog where I highlight one thing I am grateful each day. Even if no one else ever sees what I am grateful for, I benefit from thinking about what I am grateful for.
  • alteredkat Sep 12, 2010 @ 8:15 am | delete
    Every night I say what I'm grateful for...sort of a bedtime ritual now...have been doing it for just over a year...I'm a firm believer in this due to recent developments. Lensrolled to my The Secret book review
  • JoyfulPamela Sep 11, 2010 @ 6:54 am | delete
    Well, I thank you for reminding us to "count our blessings". Great page! :)
  • 38Sasa Sep 3, 2010 @ 12:56 am | delete
    I love your lens. I never thought to be grateful for the simple things like walking and talking .. I'm going to add them in and be grateful for the things that I took for granted.
  • Jolene_Belmain Jul 26, 2010 @ 9:54 am | delete
    This is beautiful and the exact spot that I needed to visit this morning. Thank you. I have enjoyed many of your articles.
  • Gloriousconfusion Jun 30, 2010 @ 10:29 am | delete
    This lens has a really nice feel-good factor, I like Deepak Chopra too, and have a couple of his books.
  • Jun 17, 2010 @ 9:14 pm | delete
    Thank you, Kurt ... for an inspired lens from an inspired guy!
    Btw, the captcha is "delightful." :D
  • tcinvestor Jun 13, 2010 @ 1:43 pm | delete
    Revisiting this lens, great refresher, thanks
  • pastella May 31, 2010 @ 10:26 am | delete
    You're so right. Whatever we have in our lives that is bad, well, we've lots of good things to be thankful for too. It's so much better to focus on the good. Great lens.
  • Jmckee May 23, 2010 @ 11:01 pm | delete
    Awesome lens, very insightful and peaceful. Thank you very much for responding to my forum post!
  • tklark May 11, 2010 @ 3:51 pm | delete
    Taking a few moments each day to identify 3-5 things we're grateful for is absolutely life changing. Thanks for sharing.
  • DaveAllen Apr 25, 2010 @ 11:07 am | delete
    Enjoyed your gratitude list. So many things you just can't buy, It is good to remember that sunny days and rainy days enrich our lives regardless of our worthiness or anything we might do. This is what makes so much of that "simple stuff" so great. We have so many blessings like this. It is so easy to forget, so we must make the effort to remember. Yes, I add rainy days to my list. I have come to love rainy days more because of my daughter. We had an incredible rainbows just yesterday and my daughter and I watched them come and go with our friends and neighbors. Don't forget to stop and splash in the puddles, too!.

    I agree that a gratitude journal can really help deepen our understanding beyond an intellectual level to what you call a "heart felt level." So many times I thought I knew something, but I had only fooled myself. I only had an intellectual understanding. I had barely scratched the surface. I write a gratitude journals and it works. Gratitude is indeed a source of happiness.

    Thank you for the lens!
  • Niche-Diva Apr 23, 2010 @ 2:37 am | delete
    LOVE LOVE LOVE this lense!! i have a gratitude list that I constantly add to and it has been a blessing. Thank you for being so creative and taking the time!! 5* and FAV.
  • LadyelenaUK Apr 14, 2010 @ 12:53 pm | delete
    Hand on heart, this is the best lens I have read so far on Squid. It's what I believe life should be about. There are so many little things we take for granted. I don't have a gratitude journal per say, but I always write a daily journal and hi-light the "good things" that happened that day in a bright colour.

    The funny thing is there are some good things that happen to us, that we don't even know. E.g someone mentioning our name in recommendation for something good or some people changed their flight, not knowing that the original flight would never reach destination anyway.

    You got me going now..... keep on spreading that sunshine. It will give a lot of people - (particularly sad and depressed) some uplifting.
    Great Lens.
  • johnedencatch22 Apr 13, 2010 @ 12:05 am | delete
    I am grateful for your lens! I am grateful for all of those things you mentioned. 1 more, I am grateful for the ocean and a boat to sail on it
  • SandraRose Apr 9, 2010 @ 1:10 pm | delete
    Beautiful lens! I am grateful that people take the time to be grateful, and that people like you remind people like me to take that time. 5 Star
  • salcha00 Mar 24, 2010 @ 8:50 pm | delete
    Very inspiring. I agree with you, why look for what we don't have and start appreciating what we really have instead. We must not take life as a game, we must see it as a gift.
  • cyberstall Mar 24, 2010 @ 7:57 am | delete
    This is great. I'll certainly be trying it myself.
  • aesta1 Mar 10, 2010 @ 6:13 pm | delete
    Thanks for the reminder. I like the idea of having a journal. It is a good practice. Thanks for the suggestion.
  • tamiran Mar 10, 2010 @ 2:33 am | delete
    Gratitude is an excellent way of thinking. You are my favorite.
  • llDoMll Feb 27, 2010 @ 7:00 pm | delete
    The gratitude journal is a great idea. We should all be keeping track of the things that we should be content with. Perhaps, it'll change your perception of reality from negative to positive.
  • Dachia Feb 27, 2010 @ 4:49 pm | delete
    Great lens. I especially love Deepak Chopra (Always have) and many of the quotes here.
  • EastLineTrading Feb 14, 2010 @ 7:25 am | delete
    Love your Lens!!!
  • welcome2reality Feb 7, 2010 @ 9:49 pm | delete
    What I don't get is WHY, since gratitude and positiveness are obviously beneficial and their lack detrimental, ANYONE would CHOOSE otherwise IF that were all there is to it? Apparently, someone can no more RELATE TO gratitude, much less turn negatives into positives, if they don't know how to relate one thing to another, to begin with, which is trickier than it seems, and ironically the people who LEARNED that SKILL all too often take it FOR GRANTED, ungratefully scorning those whose family and teachers failed to relate what they didn't understand to things they already knew. If someone can't put 2 and 2 together, nothing much else adds up. THAT is why so many suffer ingratitude and negativity; not because they choose to be unpleasant and displeased. If the people patting themselves on the back understood where their ability to make that choice stems from, they'd be all the more grateful for it, as well.
  • DaveAllen Apr 25, 2010 @ 12:18 pm | delete
    Well, we don't know what we don't know. It isn't so easy to know the extent of our ignorance -- where, when, how large. Perhaps the biggest problem is knowing something for certain that just isn't true. Some might not be aware that there is a choice. Without awareness, we don't know that we have things to put together. Happiness comes from the outer world --- see, I know I have no control, no choice. If I knew it was primarily an inside job, then I have decisions to make. An attitude of gratitude is more than turning negatives into positives, it is about where we place our focus. It is about having more positives in the first place. Unfortunately, many of us do not know that humans have a negativity bias, that our minds are more impressed with the negative stuff. We are primed to pay particularly close attention to the bad stuff. If we don't put effort into cultivating gratitude, our negativity bias will take an increasing number of our resources and make us miserable.

    The negative position can come from not knowing you have a choice just as easily as it can come from deciding not to make the positive effort. If the research is correct, we already have a talent for the negative.

    We do have positive potential, but that requires the development of a new skill.
  • paulachen Dec 30, 2009 @ 6:55 am | delete
    I'm grateful to have met some people on here. Sometimes when you are constantly working, you kind of lose yourself in the moment. Like when you don't have time for your friends etc. Then the loneliness kicks in.. (lol) ..... Great topic and lens here!
  • Blueage168 Dec 2, 2009 @ 7:10 pm | delete
    good informative lens and a reminder to be grateful for what you have.
  • wabond Dec 2, 2009 @ 9:24 am | delete
    This is something i am learning myself. Gratitude and appreciation are very positive thoughts and emotions and put you in a better feeling place.
  • coreeneacker Nov 9, 2009 @ 5:27 am | delete
    Your lens is superb and more informative. I can express appreciation for anything and everything but 'being grateful' (for me) implies I am in someone's debt or that I am 'less than'
  • d-artist Nov 8, 2009 @ 7:55 am | delete
    I'm grateful to be alive! saying Thank You should be second nature...attitude is a choice and we reap the consequences of a negative one....great lens.....5*
  • creativemom May 31, 2010 @ 4:04 am | delete
    I am grateful for having found this lens. Just like d-artist I am grateful to be happy, kicking and moving. I love this journey of seeking myself.
  • amy1980 Oct 10, 2009 @ 8:43 pm | delete
    Thank you for this. I struggle with this daily, and I need reminding.
  • SharonLipinski Sep 17, 2009 @ 10:42 pm | delete
    Great lens! Reading this information help me see a brighter day.

    Thanks
    Sharon
  • foovay Aug 16, 2009 @ 1:36 pm | delete
    Beautiful lens about gratitude. The world needs more lenses like this! I practice gratitude in my own life - but a reminder never hurts.
  • theraggededge Aug 16, 2009 @ 1:20 pm | delete
    Great lens. I do prefer 'appreciation' to 'gratitude' though. I can express appreciation for anything and everything but 'being grateful' (for me) implies I am in someone's debt or that I am 'less than'. Hard to explain but Esther does it well on the Youtube vid above. 5*s
  • DAnnieB Aug 14, 2009 @ 7:50 pm | delete
    I'm grateful for this lens! Thank you for writing it.... :)
  • Write Aug 12, 2009 @ 3:24 am | delete
    I know a girl who's grateful and appreciates the little things I like in life too, and I fell in love with her. Thanks, man.
  • partybuzz Aug 5, 2009 @ 3:57 pm | delete
    Nice lens! My daddy always told me...count your blessings!
  • WhitU4ever Aug 3, 2009 @ 7:46 pm | delete
    This is awesome! I especially like the saying, Happiness is not the cause of gratitude. It is the result. 5 stars and favorited. :)
  • prosperity66 Aug 3, 2009 @ 6:01 pm | delete
    Maybe changing our attitude would make the world a better place to live :)
    Excellent lens, rated 5 stars. A lens of hope...
  • DebMartin Aug 3, 2009 @ 9:12 am | delete
    Thanks for the reminder.

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I have found that it's so much better to be grateful for things because then you get to enjoy things and appreciate them so much more.

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