FORGET THE SIMPLICITY OF IT ALL !

There is something I have been meaning to share with you all. Its something most of us take for granted, the simplicity of it alone tends to make us disregard it most times.

It is unknown to most of us a secret weapon that we can use to win the battles of life. I said the ‘battles’ of life because it can be applied in more than one area of our life, in fact it should be applied to all areas of our lives, but am going to concentrate on its application in our relationships.

Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of it all because just this one idea can change your life completely. What am I talking about?

THE POWER OF APPRECIATION

Yes, it’s the power of appreciation.
Appreciation is the act of recognizing a positive or favorable act; it is a feeling or expression of gratitude. It can also be defined as a full understanding of the meaning or importance of someone, an act or something.

Do you know that feeling you get each time you are appreciated or your effort or action is appreciated? You have to agree with me that there is always the feeling of inner happiness each time you or your action is appreciated. You can imagine what such a simple gratitude can do to your spouse or partner each time they did something nice.

Appreciation is a weapon that can be used in every area of our lives and even our love lives. A lot of people don’t realize why relationships and marriages appear to be loveless after a given period of time. Relationships needs spark to bring them back to life after appearing dead for a long time. Look, its natural that marriages or relationships that are past 6months or a year will generally appear boring, if this occurs, the easiest way to bring back the spark is to begin to appreciate your partner for the little things they do, throw them compliments at the time they least expect, show gratitude for little gestures of love from them, then sit back and watch how little appreciation brings back that newness in your relationship or marriage.

Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this word as it’s the one word that can make a big difference in your life. My advice is that showing appreciation should not be limited to our relationships, we should always appreciate people; appreciate God, show gratitude to our parents and to everybody around us.

Do you know what a simple “Oh? Thank you” could do to that cleaner? That house help? That your mechanic? That your driver? It puts a smile on their faces, it makes them appreciate themselves and God the more, these people least expects gratitude from you, after all they are paid to do what they do, but have your taken your time to think of the positive impact this show of gratitude from you could have in their life?

Think about this, gratitude makes the world in general a better place.

It’s a new week, a bright and beautiful Monday morning, enjoy the week as I wish you the very best this new week.

Thank you all for your comments on the last post,

Ciao