{"id":69,"date":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/your-gratitude-is-your-latitude\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:04:25","slug":"your-gratitude-is-your-latitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/your-gratitude-is-your-latitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Gratitude Is Your Latitude"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAcknowledging the good that it already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.\u201d -Eckhart Tolle<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s the thing about gratitude: The more you have, the more you have.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing about most people: They believe \u201cThe more you have, the less for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the truth: Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth.<\/p>\n

You can tell a lot about a person (yourself included) by examining their attitude. Do they believe that good things happen to them? Do they feel lucky? Do they believe that everything always works out for (or toward) the greater good?<\/p>\n

Or do they think that something always happens to spoil their fun, no matter what? That good things happen to other people, but not to them. That if it weren\u2019t for bad luck, they\u2019d have no luck at all.<\/p>\n

It would be easy to make the mistake of thinking \u201cOf course that person is happy, everything good happens to him. Of course that person is negative \u2013 nothing good ever happens to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Really, it like this: \u201cOf course good things happen to that person\u2026she\u2019s happy and in gratitude all the time! She\u2019s expecting good things!<\/p>\n

The converse is true, as well: \u201cOf course negative things happen to that person\u2026she\u2019s negative and down all the time! She\u2019s anticipating bad things!<\/p>\n

There is an easy way to prove what I\u2019m saying for yourself. It\u2019s called making a gratitude list (or a gratitude journal.) It\u2019s easy to do and will improve your life in as short as a week!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to do it: Get a journal (or a notebook) and each day \u2013 either at days beginning or at days end (whenever you are most likely to do it\u2026consistently) \u2013 take a minute and jot down 10 things that you\u2019re grateful for!<\/p>\n

(WHAT? You can\u2019t think of 10 things?? OK, start with 5. Start with 3. But START.)<\/p>\n

By the time the week is out, you\u2019ll have plenty of things going on your list. You\u2019ll have a hard time stopping at 10.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the magic: The more time you spend in gratitude for the blessings in your life, the more you will be blessed in your life.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as simple as that. Gratitude opens the path for all abundance to reach you.
\nBut I AM grateful, you say.<\/p>\n

Wonderful!<\/p>\n

Make sure that you\u2019re recognizing the blessings in your life!<\/p>\n

Remember the old story about the man who was stranded on a desert island?\u00a0 He prayed to God for help and soon after, a rescue boat arrived.<\/p>\n

The man, however,\u00a0 told the rescue team to go away;\u00a0 he was a believer and\u00a0 he was sure God would save him.<\/p>\n

Some time later, a helicopter flew over and the man told the pilot the same thing: He was a believer and he was sure that God would save him.<\/p>\n

The next day a passing boat signaled to the man and he signaled back that he was fine; he was waiting for God to save him.<\/p>\n

Of course, after a little while the man died.<\/p>\n

Upon his arrival at the pearly gates of heaven,\u00a0 the man asked God why he had not answered his prayers and saved him.<\/p>\n

God replied, \u201cOf course I answered your prayers \u2013 I sent a rescue team, a helicopter, a boat\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Make room for abundance to enter into your life.\u00a0 Be ready to allow good things to happen to you! Recognize opportunity when it comes your way and grasp it with both hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allow yourself to be in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n

That means, allow yourself to say yes.<\/p>\n

Say Yes.<\/p>\n

Yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAcknowledging the good that it already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.\u201d -Eckhart Tolle Here\u2019s the thing about gratitude: The more you have, the more you have. Here\u2019s the thing about most people: They believe \u201cThe more you have, the less for me.\u201d But here\u2019s the truth: Nothing Could Be Further From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,89],"tags":[288,289,290,291],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empower-network","category-motivation","tag-abundance","tag-blessings","tag-gratitude","tag-recognizing-opportunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cicotte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}