The Gratitude Mentor

Even when you are at your lowest try and embrace everything that is working out for your highest good to get you closer to your highest place and then just maybe through that embrace you will succeed in getting out of your lowest place

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Gratitude opens the channel for more abundance to show up

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When you complain about___ you depreciate ___in your eyes.
When you want to help improve you
appreciate and retain inherent value

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If gratitude is your go-to when you need comforting you give yourself wings to fly when a downward spiral threatens

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No matter your day find even the smallest of moments of gratitude
then each and every day will have some light

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WHEN YOU START COUNTING YOUR BLESSINGS YOUR BLESSING START TO COUNT

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The Difference between Thankfulness and Gratitude 
Thankfulness is words
Gratitude is action

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“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” —Zig Ziglar

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Terri D Singer

June 6 at 11:49am · Beersheba · 

Hello. This is your friend Rabbi Paysach Krohn speaking to you about the importance of doing a chessed today and doing a chessed every day. 

 The recent passing of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yosef Rosenblum, brought to mind a Gemara that I had the zchus to discuss with him. And he told me a very interesting meforash on that Gemara which I would like to discuss with all of you today. The Gemara in Bava Kama, Tzaddik-beis, amud beis, tells us, "Bira dishasis minei"-A well that you drank from, "Lo tishta bei kala"- Do not throw a rock in it.
In other words, even an inanimate object, you have to have derech eretz for it in a way, you have to have chessed or hakaras hatov and show it recognition. If you drank from the well, don't throw a rock in it.
 And he showed me that the Shita Mekubetzes brings on that Gemara a story that the Rif, Rav Yitzchok Alfasi, had once been ill and he had a neighbor who had him come to his home and he used a certain bath, like a jacuzzi. And later, a couple of years later, this fellow who owned that bath had to sell it and he wanted to have the Rif evaluate it. But the Rif said, I can't evaluate it, because if I under-evaluate it, that, in a sense, would be a lack of hakaras hatov, that would be a lack of derech eretz, because I gained from it and I was healed because of it.
 So we see something very interesting, that even for inanimate objects, you have to have a derech eretz, you have to do a chessed with it, you have to treat it nicely. And so, therefore, I feel that's why even our siddurim, our chumashim, don't just leave it around, put it back on the shelf the way it belongs, keep it neat. Because, after all, you do owe it hakaras hatov. You have show a chessed to a sefer. And maybe that's why we should not throw our clothes on the floor as well either, because when you throw it on the floor, there's like a certain disregard. You feel good about the clothes that you wear. We all choose our clothes. We feel that it defines us in a certain way.
 And so, therefore, there has to be a certain derech eretz, a chessed the way we deal with clothes, the way we deal with inanimate objects.
 And I'll tell you something, maybe I'm a little embarrassed to tell it to you, but I'm going to tell it to you any way because I felt because of this Gemara and this concept.
 You know, when I was much younger, I always used to play basketball and I loved playing sports. And so, therefore, for years, any time I had to throw a piece of paper in the garbage, I just didn't throw it plain. You know, I would go five feet away from the garbage can, and, you know, flip it in and see if I could get it in. And of course, if my children and grandchildren were around, I made sure to do it to show them how great I still was in basketball.
 But, you know, here's the embarrassing thing. You know, in my kitchen, my sink is about, I don't know, five, six feet away from the kitchen table. And many times, you know, when I finished with a fork or a spoon you want to put it into the sink. So sometimes I used to flip it the five or six feet and see if I could get into the sink or not, again, that basketball shot. But then it occurred to me, you know, that's not right. A piece of paper, you want to flip into a garbage pail and see if you're a good basketball player, that's one thing. But you can't do that with a fork or a knife or a spoon because, after all, they are serving you, in a sense. That's like that jacuzzi that served the Rif or the siddur that serves you.
 So now I don't do that anymore. You know if you have to put a -- I never threw a plate -- but even a spoon or a fork, and I'll tell you the truth, even a plastic spoon or fork, you don't flip it into a garbage pail, because it's something, it's a utensil that you used. There's a certain derech eretz, there's a certain hakaras hatov, there's a certain chessed that you have to do for things that are even inanimate.
 And I'll tell you this thing, it's amazing. Do you know, Reb Mordechai Schwab's son told me, this is amazing, that when he finished wearing a suit, he just didn't throw it out, but rather he would wrap it up nicely and he would keep it in a drawer. And then after a few months he would take it and he would say to the suit -- I mean, I'm not telling you to talk to your suit, please -- but I'm just telling you, this tzaddik, what he did, he said in Yiddish, "Du hust mi good badint"-You served me well. And then when it was wrapped, then he would put it out to the trash and then got rid of it. But he didn't get rid of it right away, and he spoke to it and he said thank you.
 So let's do that chessed even to inanimate objects. Have a great day.

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If every second is a gift and never a given then we should always be praying, always in constant conversation with Hashem

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Live Your Day Awake and Grateful

When you see people more challenged and/or less fortunate than you understand that that could have been you so never ignore or dismiss them.

Always realize that things could change in a second

Assume nothing .... appreciate everything

Take the time to consider what others go through, have gone through, at times more than one thing at a time

See each new day as a new lease on life

Always pay attention and be aware of what goes right and for many has and for you could have gone wrong

Never forget what has worked, gone right for you in the past.

Keep your focus on what you have not on what you think you lack.

Never see anything as a given always as a gift.

Take nothing and no one for granted

See what people do for you as a huge favor they could have done other things with their time, emotions resources etc.

Let Thank you be two of the most frequent words you use

Dont live on automatic open yourself up to the miracles , blessings and beauty that constantly surround us

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Those who walk in the light no matter if it is but a spark
find the strength to fight
Live Gratefully

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Have you ever wondered what G-d "thinks" of you?
Obviously we can never know really but we can get some indication from the Torah that G-d has given us
וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת כָּל אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה וְהִנֵּה טוֹב מְאֹד וַיְהִי עֶרֶב וַיְהִי בֹקֶר יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי-בראשית
And G-d saw all that " He" had done and behold it was very good, it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day- Bereishit
After G-d had just created man .. the purpose of Creation."He" said it was very good..what higher esteem can their be ?

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Something personal from G-d to you
"צָרִיךְ כָּל אָדָם לוֹמַר, כָּל הָעוֹלָם לא נִבְרָא אֶלָּא בִּשְׁבִילִי -סַנְהֶדְרִין לז' -
"Every person needs to say that the world was only created for me"(Masechet Sanhedrin)
There are a few explanations for this, I would like to suggest one:
Obviously G-d created millions of people and has an all encompassing plan for the world, for humanity 
YET
G-d, the Creator,Maintainer , of all that was is or ever will be thought we were each worth creating and more than that ...our lives were tailor made for us to be the greatest version of ourselves that we can be, our Masterpiece, as someone ..some of the One, a piece of the Master ,Champions of our unique lives and circumstances.
Even more than that I feel that to mention so specifically that "this world was created for me" is a huge responsibility given to us by G-D for we cannot never claim that we are insignificant or nothing as we are indeed NO..THING but so much more ..each one of us uniquely created by G-D .
This to me sends a loud message that had to be pointed out so specifically
I have to say" the world was created only for me" because each second of life is a personal gift from G-D to me
Each second I can breathe
Each second I can walk
Each second I can talk
Each second I can feel
Each second of clarity
Each second I can spend time with loved ones etc the list is practically endless
This personal gift of life is the greatest you will ever get forged in the endless limitless depths of the Divine Reality that is G-d
So when I say " The world was created only for me" I say it out of speechless humility , through a lens of total all encompassing gratitude for only through gratitude that fills my heart and soul, gratitude to G-D , can I get an inkling of my value , my worth that nothing and noone can change as it was given to me by G-d.
Take this personal gift from G-D however it has been specifically wrapped for you, hug it with gratitude,love it with gratitude, use it with gratitude and then you might just find that the gift develops into so much more than you imagined, an open invitation to get closer to G-D ,always feeling alive , taking it higher

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One secret to harnessing the life transforming power of Gratitude is Humility as the more humble you choose to be the more you are open to seeing every second of life as a gift taking nothing and noone for granted ,putting effort into seeing the Wow in the Now never relying on miracles because you start to realize that you are living a miracle holding on tight with all your might if the roller coaster goes down for a while as you know always that your higher good is in play

The Gratitude Mentor

Live Your Day Awake and Grateful

When you see people more challenged and/or less fortunate than you understand that that could have been you so never ignore or dismiss them.

Always realize that things could change in a second

Assume nothing .... appreciate everything

Take the time to consider what others go through, have gone through, at times more than one thing at a time

See each new day as a new lease on life

Always pay attention and be aware of what goes right and for many has and for you could have gone wrong

Never forget what has worked, gone right for you in the past.

Keep your focus on what you have not on what you think you lack.

Never see anything as a given always as a gift.

Take nothing and no one for granted

See what people do for you as a huge favor they could have done other things with their time, emotions resources etc.

Let Thank you be two of the most frequent words you use

Dont live on automatic open yourself up to the miracles , blessings and beauty that constantly surround us