Thanksgiving Thoughts - Changing Your Attitude

Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough

Welcome to LifeTalk Thanks for joining us for this Thanksgiving Edition

Here's some quotes drawn from today's podcast to help shape your attitude and enhance your sense of Thanksgiving:

“Thanksgiving demands that we set aside the cultural narrative and be thankful for all of the things that the narrative says are not enough.”

It’s not about the things that we possess as being enough. It’s that we have them in the first place.

“If I am swallowed up in the bowels of negativity, and if the world seems eternally dark and forever foreboding it is likely that I have recklessly abandoned any notion of thankfulness. It is entirely likely that I have set the whole of my mind on what I don’t have, constructed the essence of my attitude around what hasn’t worked, and fashioned a vision for my future on the cold corpses of the many dreams that died horrific deaths. Yet, if I dare to be thankful for the fact that what I do have will always outweigh what I don’t, that everything that didn’t work places me one step closer to that which will, and that the death of one dream creates a space for the birth of a greater one, negativity will perish, light will dawn, and I will never fall to any of these things again.”

Attitude. How are we going to think about things? How are we going to choose to think about whatever it is that our life has become. And finally, think about this: “I have learned that an attitude of thankfulness is not simply an attitude. It is a perspective brazenly empowered to shape the lens through which I look at the world. And I have likewise learned that such an attitude is one of the very few things in life that not only has the ability to clean such a lens to perfection, but it has the power to render it crisp and sharp. And once you look through a lens such as this, no other lens will suffice and neither will any other attitude.”

And so, as stated at the beginning, have you ever wonder why your life is so lackluster? Have you wondered why it’s always so flat? So unappealing? So bland and unfulfilling and empty and all of the things that you wish it were not? Maybe it’s your attitude. Maybe that’s why.

And maybe this is why Thanksgiving needs to be more than food and football and Black Friday and Cyber Monday, because that’s cheapening it in ways that are entirely unacceptable and completely irresponsible. Don’t do that. Let Thanksgiving be transformational in your life, because you need it to be that way.

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