Waking up Down the Shore

Wow, what a glorious day it is here, down the shore.  I had the opportunity to spend the night with my girlfriend who lives down the shore, on the lagoon.  Because I have moved so many times in the past year, I realize how important our space if for us to be happy, content and motivated.  Waking up here, I feel I could accomplish anything I wanted to!  How could you not?  Waking up to sunshine, a home filled with windows and light, on the water, is such an amazing breath of fresh air!  I woke at 6:30, ready to get out of bed, and when I stepped outside, I felt instant relief.  Relief from life, from all the stresses I am going through, feeling so at peace and content.  Too bad it will be short lived, as I am leaving soon.

So many of us don't even realize what we have in our face, and always seem to focus on the problems in life and what we don't have.  What about waking up and feeling grateful each day for what we do have?  Starting each day with gratitude, gratitude for even our body, our mind, our thoughts, and our environment, and the people around us.  So many run from here to there, from work to wherever, never stopping to smell the roses and thanking God and the Universe for what we do have.  

As I am growing I see things and people so differently, and I am realize how most people I see and know live in fear and worry, focus on that, and are running around crazy, trying to keep up with their life.  They stress about everything, and focus on the things that "make them feel bad", and don't even realize why their life is the way it is.  I have been put in many situations lately with that energy, the negativity, the people that focus on the bad and complain about everything, and I know I use to be one of them.  

But, no longer, I have seen the light, I have made a conscious choice to focus on the good, to focus on what makes me feel good, and not bad.  If I asked people how would you like to feel all day?  Happy or sad?  I am sure their answer would be happy, but they don't realize they can not be happy when all they see is the negative, focus on it, and talk about it each and every day.  And they do not realize happiness is a choice.  A choice to appreciate life, to enjoy the moment and the people right in front of you.  A choice to live life as we want.  
I want to tell all of you this can be changed, it is a choice what we decide to focus on, yes it may become a habit, but it is still a choice.  It's like choosing love or hate?  Do I want to choose loving this person, understanding them, or just bitch and complain about them?  Do I want to focus on being grateful each and every day for anything I can?  I know this is possible, because I have made the change, the change to focus on things that make me "feel good", not things that make me "feel bad".  It is about being aware, conscious, realizing we have the power to change our life, to change our thoughts, totally.  If we just leave it to be, are not happy with ourselves, and just constantly complain about it all, how can we ever change?  How can we get out of that negative spiral?  We have free will, we can change, we can do anything we want to, but so many of us do not.

I am so glad that I have grown and come to a place of gratitude, I see others around me that have so much to be grateful for and are not.  They still are unhappy, still focusing on fear and worry.  I know I can not change them, all I can do is share what I am learning about changing my attitude, and on how the Universe does work.  We get what we put out, we attract what we feel, it's as simple as that.  Maybe when people want to see my shift, it will encourage them to do the same!