Tis the season for gratitude. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. What I love most about it is the simplicity of purpose, to give thanks. Of course, I adore the food too.
Recently I came to a new realization about gratitude. When you are present and fully participating in gratitude, fear is absent. You cannot be grateful and fearful at the same time.
Today’s financial crisis has many roots, but none as deep as credit that was too easy and lax or nonexistent regulation. The leaders of our country are working on the macro solutions to these macro problems. Other than making our views known to our elected officials, we personally can do little to change our plight at this macro level.
So where is the point of personal responsibility we each share in moving out of this crisis? We as individuals are lengthening and making the economic downturn deeper each time we turn our attention to fear. Fear is contagious. As we focus on fear we tighten up, physically, emotionally and mentally.
Fear can take over our thoughts and put us in a place of inaction. If we focus on eliminating fear, we just get more fear as anything we attend to increases in our lives.
That is where gratitude comes in. It is easy to find hundreds of things in every moment to be grateful for. Gratitude is free. It is easy. It is simple. We can participate in gratitude in our cars, in our home, at the office or in the shower in the morning. The more we practice gratitude the more good things expand in our life. As gratitude expands, we reduce the opportunity for fear to live and grow within us.
This is a way we can each take personal responsibility in making our economy better. Focus on gratitude. Fear will naturally fall away. And worst case scenario, let’s say my theory about the relationship of gratitude and fear is incorrect. Then you still win, your life will be more pleasant and happy as you focus what you DO have to be thankful for.
May prosperity be yours,
Mackey McNeill, CPA/PFS IAR
President and CEO
Mackey Advisors
www.CultivatingProsperity.com
859-331-7755
Mackey@CultivatingProsperity.com
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