Gratitude Stone

Why is it so hard to keep being grateful on my mind is it hard for you too?  I have so many things to be grateful for and being grateful is one of the most important things in my life. When I first learned of the power of being grateful I decided to do something to help me keep it in the front of my mind.  I had just dug my self out of a big financial mess and started to turn my luck around with a new job and some unexpected income that helped my pay for the new house that I now live in.  After living here for about a week and still feeling the overwhelming sense of gratitude for all of my good fortune I wanted a way to keep that feeling alive so I picked up a small rock out of my new driveway and put it in my pocket and called it my gratitude stone!
I would keep the rock in my pocket every day and  when I would empty my pockets at night or change my clothes I would hold onto the rock for an extra second and remember all the things I’m grateful for.  When I would get mad or frustrated with the way my day was going or I was letting other people control my behavior and make me angry then the rock would poke me in the leg and remind me to be grateful.   This was a very affective tool for keeping me on track with having a positive attitude and reminding me to be grateful.
There were a few days when I forgot to put the rock in my pocket and just remembering that I had forgotten it would help carry the energy of being grateful through the day. Then there were some times that I forgot to take it out of my pocket and it would end up in the wash and would be lost for days or weeks.  The rock became less important I would tell myself that it was being grateful that was important and not the rock and over time I carried the rock with me less and less until I finally lost it altogether and now I still don’t know where it is.
I bet you have already guessed what I’m going to say next and you would be right. My ability to be grateful for all of the amazing and awesome things in my life diminished I would remember to be grateful less and less until I couldn’t see anything to be grateful for. Round after round of bad luck and misfortune headed my way.  I don’t understand why it should be so hard for me to remember all the thing that I have to be grateful for and to go around with a true felling of gratitude but it is.
I’m starting over I have kept being grateful in the front of my mind daily and the waves of misfortune have subsided even the good fortune, health and well being of the people around me has returned I plan to keep this going by replacing my old tool, my rock with a new one and giving this one even more positive energy than I gave the last one. If I some how manage to lose this one I will not delay in replacing it with another I suspect that when I get my new one that my old one will turn up.
A felling of true gratitude for all the things in my life and all of the things and people in the world is something I hold to the highest importance now because I have clearly demonstrated to my self that it is one of the most powerful forces in my life. I don’t really know why it works I just know that it does and for me that’s good enough I don’t always need to know why something works if I cans see and feel that it does!
Thank you for reading I’m grateful that you took the time to read this!