The other day, my computer had been slowing down and I did what I’ve always done in the past. I restarted it so that the memory could refresh. It works every time.

But…this time it didn’t boot up as usual. It choose to ‘hang’ and take forever to load Windows. Very unusual.

I shut it down and tried to boot it up in ‘safe’ mode. Wouldn’t load up there either. Huh. Something’s really wrong.

I tinkered with it for a bit more and nothing changed.

I thought to myself, “This is an interesting manifestation. Why did I create this?”

To be honest, I don’t know why. Maybe I needed to take a break myself?

Well, that’s exactly what I did. I knew that there was nothing I could do with computer. I might as well take this time to do something else. I chose to clear up clutter around my desk and file away papers that had been piling up.

Not having my computer up and running made me really aware of how much I depend on it.  I listen to music through it. When I have a question, I’ll look it up on google. Much of my work is on this computer. I can watch past TV shows on demand too.

There is so much I could do on the computer that I’ll often put off other things that I’ve been meaning to do – like filing papers.

So, while I could have fretted about my computer not working and what would happen if I didn’t get work done I had planned to do, I didn’t.  I was grateful because it made we aware of how much time I spend on the computer. It allowed me to clear my space. And it feels good to see all that clutter gone.

I did get my computer to finally load in Safe Mode and got it to run a ‘Defrag’ which coincidently declutters the hard drive space so that it can function more efficiently. That did the trick and my computer is up and running like new.

Interesting, huh?

My computer needed to be de-cluttered. That’s exactly what I needed to do too.

Everything happens for a reason.

Next time something happens unexpectedly for you, see if you can find the value in it.

I seem to be addicted to gratitude and it’s so exquisitely wonderful.  I so rarely use that word ‘exquisite’ but I can’t think of another word to explain how I’ve been feeling. (In truth, no words can really explain the feeling.)

It started a couple of days before Thanksgiving, which we celebrated last week  here in the U.S.  I remember taking several moments to reflect on what I was grateful for this year. So many wonderful experiences!

Then on Wednesday this week I attended a Law of Attraction Meetup and we again talked about gratitude. Almost everyone had their gratitude lists that they shared with the group.  I didn’t have a list though. I shared that I prefer to just reflect, bring people/experiences to mind and connect to the energy of gratitude.

Since Wednesday, I’ve been on such a high from connecting to the energy of gratitude. I keep on finding more and more things I am grateful for to the point where I’m grateful for everything. And I feel SO amazing that I want more of it. I’m addicted…

But it’s easy to get more because all I need to do is bring my attention to it and what I feel amps up and expands!

This is what I want you to get.

It doesn’t matter whether you prefer to make gratitude lists or not. Some members of the Meetup group said they liked making lists. Great! I prefer not to. That’s okay too.

The point of connecting to gratitude is to feel good, to activate this energy in your body, to connect to yourself. And when you feel good, you open the doors to all that you desire.

Many years ago when I was first introduced to the idea that we could create our own reality, whether it was called the Law of Attraction or not, I was told to list what I was grateful for, even if I didn’t have that thing I wanted yet. Write it all down they said. And I faithfully made my lists. Every night I would write down what I was grateful for… my house, my car, having food to eat, etc….

But I was just writing down stuff just so that I could have my list of 10 items for the day. Well no surprise that it didn’t really amount to anything.

Making lists of what I was grateful for was just an exercise I thought I needed to do to get more of what I wanted. But in retrospect, it really didn’t have any value for me. That’s why I didn’t keep it up.

Since then I’ve learned that it’s about how you feel.  Do things that make you feel good.  When you feel good, you transmit vibes out that are ‘coded’ with information that say “Hey, there are good vibes here. Send over more good vibes.” And that’s how you attract more of what you want. It’s a vibrational match.

It’s important to note however that I don’t connect to gratitude so that I can have something else. I connect to gratitude because it feels good. And that’s why I keep on connecting to it and reflecting on what else I am so grateful for.

If it feels so darn good, why wouldn’t I want to keep feeling this?

Now because I am am grateful for everything and this makes me feel good, I will naturally attract more good stuff into my life because it makes me feel good. It’s a win-win.

So… what are you grateful for today? And how does it make you feel?

Would love to read your comments below.