Gratitude (Inspirational Speech)

When you get grateful for what you have now You will soon have more to be grateful for and it's so true When you send out those feelings of gratitude, what happens? You become instantaneously happy, in this moment When you are grateful and happy with life, as it stands today So many more things will flow into your life to be happy and grateful for And the reverse is also true If you feel like there is nothing to be grateful for, what are you focused on? You're focused on everything you don't want You are focused on everything you don't have And what do you then think you will attract into your experience? Exactly, more of what you don't want Make it your mission to sit down every day and become grateful Get grateful for those two gifts you have called eyes, many aren't so lucky Get grateful for the ears that can here this music Get grateful for that person in your life that made a difference Get grateful for your tough times, because they helped develop your strength and spirit Get grateful for your life There is so much to be grateful for There's something to be said about being appreciative and grateful You know whether you're thanking God, or life Or whether you're looking to a person in your world and just saying thank you There's something really special about that I mean, there's something very real about moments where you can just sit by yourself And look at your life, and just say thank you You know, thank you for this gift Thank you for this ride that I'm on, thank you for this journey And a lot of people go through their lives Without experiencing the beauty of these moments Your life, although perhaps filled with many imperfections, is still an experience It's an experience that people in their final moments Would do anything just to grasp onto for a little while longer Can you imagine? As you hear this, there are people who are taking their final breaths Taking their final breaths on this planet Looking back at their lives and wishing they could have done more Meanwhile, we have this experience, we are alive, we're breathing air Our hearts are pumping, our brain is doing billions of operations per second Just to keep the game going for us We can't find reasons to be grateful for that? We can't, as human beings, be appreciative for that? There's an entire spectrum of life you are missing out on When you don't take moments to just feel Just feel! Just create moments of gratitude within yourself Just for the sake of being appreciative For the sake of being alive That alone will change your life That will make you human again That will disconnect you from this game of consumerism And this dog-eat-dog world we've allegedly created That will disconnect you from the insanity of society And will reconnect you with something greater than yourself And I don't care what you call it, call it god, call it the universe, call it life or magic When you begin to be appreciative for life There is a certain power that will bring you even more reasons to be appreciative It's one of life's greatest paradoxes When you are in a state of needing this and needing that It doesn't matter how much you acquire, you will never have enough But, you can have the courage to be grateful for what you already have Life will bless you with even more You know, you can decide, in this moment, to give it up Give up the complaining, give up the blaming and the accusing Give up the gossiping and the whining and instead Realize you are on an incredible journey, and fall in love with every second of it That's when you will truly come to life