Itohan Iroro's podcast: Recent Episodes
Itohan Iroro
When Gratitude is a choice this becomes our response regardless of happenings:
"Let me be thankful, first , because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it I who was robbed, not I who robbed"
Matthew Henry
This choice gives perspective and it is the difference between the glass half full and half empty.
Make gratitude a choice by choosing to be grateful for everything and in everything.
This podcast is a part of an on going series of our gratitude journey. It attempts to show us negative emotions that get in the way of gratitude. This series starts with envy and attempts to make distinction between it and jealous....
Envy according to Merriam Webster dictionary is that painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage.
Envy is summarized in this phrase:
"I am so plain while the other is so fabulous. It hurts when I look at you"....Envy makes us feel inadequate, incomplete, impotent and missing out" Frank J. Ninivaggi
While envy cannot be totally eliminated this podcasts shows us healthy ways we can manage envy....
"Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace." ~ Bernard of Clairvaux
To count your blessings is simply to think about the things you’re grateful for. It is one of the most powerful practices you can ever do!
The Secret
“The benefits from counting blessings are tangible, emotionally and physically,” “People are 25 percent happier and more energetic if they keep gratitude journals, have 20 percent less envy and resentment, sleep 10 percent longer each night and wake up 15 percent more refreshed, exercise 33 percent more, and show a 10 percent drop in blood pressure.” Robert Emmons
Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
The Holy Bible
Gratitude teaches us to take the hand fate has dealt us and use it to our advantage:- whether good, bad, ugly, beautiful, terrible or terrific use it to your advantage!
"I had the blues because I had no shoes, until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." - Persian proverb.
Be thankful and content with what you have right here and now.
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Gratitude is the bridge to happiness and acknowledging what we have by way of counting is building block."
Itohan Iroro
"Count your blessings, name them one by one;
Count your blessings, see what God hath done;Count your blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done." Johnson Oatman, Jr.
"The evidence of Gratitude's power working is that above all it makes you happy. The secondary evidence is that you attract wonderful things." The Secret.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckhart Toile