How to Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude

I’m Dr. Hassan, a Board-Certified Physiatrist and Independent Practice Owner. I help physiatrists start and grow their own profitable practices so they can achieve financial independence and live without limits.

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When building a profitable practice, it’s important to have an attitude of gratitude. To cultivate an attitude of gratitude, we have to take time from our busy day and remember to give thanks for all the blessings that keep coming our way on a daily basis. Gratitude keeps us focused on what we have rather than all the things we don’t have, which keeps us in a victim mentality.

We may not realize that gratitude is a choice and that it doesn’t come easily to many of us. Most of us were taught as children to say thank you when someone gave us a present or does something nice for us. But after a while, thank you can become quite glib, unless we learn ways to cultivate the attitude of gratitude. Practicing gratitude is also a skill that is never too late to develop.

Here are some things to keep in mind to develop an attitude of gratitude:

1. Express gratitude

When you are grateful for the things that you have and express gratitude, it takes it to another level and opens the door to feeling optimistic. Optimism is a skill that can be cultivated. One of the ways to develop it is to think, feel, and express gratitude both for the small and the big things that take place in your life.

2. The law of attraction and gratitude

A meaningful way to apply the law of attraction is to raise your vibration by acknowledging and giving thanks for what you have or experience. When you are in a state of gratitude, you are resonating and sending out a frequency of acceptance and harmony. As a result, you resonate at a much higher vibrational frequency. The frequency is what attracts to you the events, conditions, and circumstances that you desire.

3. A grateful heart

A grateful heart begins by reflecting and contemplating on all the wonderful things around you. It has to do with the state of being and has to be cultivated by self-reflection. It comes by considering how life has supported you. Things as simple as listening to the birds sing or enjoying the taste of a homegrown tomato can be cause for celebration when you focus on having a grateful heart.

4. Gratitude quotes

A simple way to remember to express gratitude is by reflecting on gratitude quotes. As we contemplate on the truth of these powerful sayings by people from all walks of life, they help us make a subtle shift in the way we perceive life and enables us to concentrate on positive things rather than the negative. Here are three gratitude quotes:

• “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” —Andra Day
• “This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” —Maya Angelou
• “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” —Voltaire

I am Dr. Hassan, a Board-Certified Physiatrist and Independent Practice Owner. I help physiatrists start and grow their own independent practice so that they can achieve financial independence and live without limits. Please go to businessofrehab.com/guide to pick up the free guide to help you determine the best business entity for your new practice.

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