The first visit to Vegas long before moving here became my reality I came to see Barbara Streisand in concert.
Like many things for me that I go after, I jump in and figure it out later. I wanted the best seats so I racked up for two people $3000.
Living in Los Angeles at the time that amount of money for some was rent and car payment and groceries etc... I was not even phased by the cost, it just came together.
I keep thanking the universe over and over again but in the back of my mind when the next months bills came in how was I going to live? My thought was I wanted this and had asked the universe to help me get thru this whole drama I had created.
No one to blame but me.
Well the concert was glorious and who would have thought years later I would end up at Barbara's mansion in Beverly Hills working as a server for a huge party. I digress!!
I keep thanking and thanking the universe over and over again for the moment.
I had never gambled before as I ended up at a roulette table. I had forty dollars in my poclket. I am staring at the table and looking at the people standing around and to be honest. Overwhelmed!
This incredibly dressed woman with diamonds flowing off her fingers came up to me. "You have never gambled before"?
No!!
"Do what I tell you and leave the table when I tell you to leave".
My thought without hesitation, "OK".
Needless to say had started with forty and left with
seven thousand.
This was one of those Oprah moments."Aha"
After all the positive things that have and will happen in my life, here was a huge testament to the power of gratitude.
While you catch your breath from that one lets build on this with a power song
What I needed to speak about today and share with the amazing people that read my blogs.
Gratitude!
The most simple and powerful gift we all have.
What I am saying even if you have only $12 dollars to your name, Give thanks!!
You woke up today, you are able to have life. Give thanks.
You broke up with someone and moved on, you met someone special and you are finally able to fit in those tight ass jeans,
Give thanks.
Do you see where I am heading with this whole mantra?
How the hell do you expect or ask for more if you are not thankful for what you have now?
Don't be so busy that you don't acknowledge the universe for everything you have.
I am here to speak today, to testify, to speak you from the heart and from so many positive life experiences that I have had of my own.
If the universe does not know you are thankful , it will not give you more.
It will not give you more!!
If you are not thankful for $12 dollars how does the universe know you will be happy with $1,200,000 dollars.
You leave it in limbo as it doesn't know what will make you happy....
You will not get more no matter how much you ask if you are not thankful for so many things you take for granted.
When you are grateful, its no more just about you.
It's about acknowledging something bigger than us all.
There are moments in life that happier and sadder than others.
Sometimes where the food is better than others, where the love in you life is at that moment the best in you life.
As you begin to unravel the mystery behind the love you just met and take them off the pedestal, you realize that you belonged on the pedestal in the first place or you would not have met that love.
All of these lesson of happiness and sadness, be grateful.
I have said this over and over again. I would not change a thing even as horrible the moments were at the time for me.
I have no regrets.
I basically thanked my way out of them and on to a bigger thought and a bigger moment.
What seems so hard now, if you give thanks for the lessons it is teaching you, it will turn around and give you something better.
It will give you something better!!! It will give you something bigger!!
Because you are thankful, the universe shows its thankfulness back and gives you something you asked for today.
I am living proof. I have and will continue to have so many incredible things happen for me because I am grateful. Thats the power.
So start a gratitude journal or if you dont write, each day write down at least five things you have to be grateful.
This simple task will expand and even though some of you non believers might roll you eyes and say "Really!!".
What do you have to lose when you have so much to gain?
Try it for two weeks and I am sure your life will have moments of greatness.
Wherever there is gratefulness there will be more. There is no end to something that has no end.
To quote my mentor, Oprah and my favorite line.....
"What I know for sure, if you concentrate on what you have, you will always have more. I want all of you to have more.
I want all of you to be grateful.
I am grateful for every one of you that reads my blog.
I am thankful for the blasts of support I get from unexpected people that read my thoughts from all over the planet.
I always expect the unexpected. I ask for the unexpected. I am thankful for the unexpected.
I am thankful for you.
Ok!!!. Lifers, I wanted to pump up your universe. Thanks to you Live-Live-Live