The Law of Appreciation - Money

The last few months I've been reading a lot about appreciation or being thankful. What I've come to realize is that appreciation goes hand in hand with the Law of Attraction. Basically the Law of Attraction means positive will attract positive and negative will attract negative. Everyone practices this law even if you don't realize it. So the appreciation aspect I'm speaking of is to attract more of the positive and less negative into our lives.

I'm sure everyone can remember a time when someone (probably mom or dad) said "you should be thankful for that food on your plate. There are a lot of starving people that would love to have what you are eating." Because we were so young, we really didn't understand - we didn't put 2 and 2 together. Even as I grew up I still had a problem understanding the reason I should be thankful or appreciative of anything.

If I only knew then, what I know now. But I didn't. Thank goodness it's never too late to start.

So now you're saying "Well this doesn't apply to me. I'm very thankful for everything in my life. I appreciate everything."

My reply would be, "So - you appreciated the guy that cut you off in traffic today?" Ah, that was different you say. I think there was a point made.

One way to figure out if there are any areas in your life that you are not appreciating is to ask yourself a question. In what area(s) of your life are you experiencing lack? There are many areas to choose from that could be lacking in our lives. Here are just a few of them: relationships (this one could be a blog in itself), food, housing, friends, you name it and it may be possible that the cause of lack is really the lack of appreciating it. I'm sure one subject that we have all had our difficulties with is the lack of money.

Here is a recent example from my own life.

My husband and I own a painting business and work mainly with the new construction homes. This industry has been very slow this year and we have been just squeaking by with enough cash to cover our monthly expenses. The bills get paid, the gas tanks get filled, the food is bought - that's pretty much it. Not a lot of extra cash floating around our house to have any fun with let alone save any of it. Gee, I wonder if anyone else can relate to this scenario.

Well it came to my attention through all of the reading I've been doing, that to break this cycle of lack in my life I needed to start appreciating ALL of the money that comes to me. I just love those "a-ha" moments (someone turned on the light).

Here's what happened when I started to practice appreciating money:

While cleaning and organizing our bedroom I was coming across a few pennies, nickles and dimes. Every time I found one I would say "thank you" or "woo-hoo, a penny!" (with a smile on my face). I cleaned, organized and appreciated for 3 days (yes, it took 3 days to clean our bedroom, this also seems to be our catch-all room).

Within 2 days my husband received a call about a job that they wanted done as soon as possible. The day after this job was completed he received another call and had another job. Woo-hoo!!

I know, some of you are probably saying that it must be that the industry is picking up or that we were just lucky. You have the right to think anything you want to. And so do I. In my own opinion I believe the key to having and attracting more of anything into our lives is in the appreciation of everything. We need to start paying attention to the little things.

I'll be sure to keep you posted on my appreciation process.
I'm thankful for my pennies, are you?