Making Your Blessings Count

I hope by now, you have started your Resolution Revolution Plan.  After you review your inventory list and begin to create your action plan, you will probably feel energized and motivated.  In the coming weeks we will work on planning techniques to keep you on track, but for today I would like to leave you with a new exercise to keep you moving in the right direction.

For years parents, teachers, spiritual leaders, even Bing Crosby have admonished us to count our blessings. While I do understand the value in recognizing and being grateful for that which is good in our lives, it is far more powerful to make your blessings count.

Counting our blessings allows us to see that we all have an abundance of something – in the Resolution Revolution Plan, our objective is to share our good fortunes rather than simply enumerate them.  It is straightforward if our abundance is tangible.  We may need to think about it a little more our blessings are skills, attributes, knowledge, circumstances or similar intangibles.

In 2009, rather than simply listing blessings, imagine what we can create by doing something constructive and sharing them!  This year, as you consider the year in review, what has meaning to you and what you would like to cultivate – take a moment to consider how to share your blessings and make them count!