Thoughts on the power of appreciation and how it can help you overcome down times.

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Appreciation, How important is it?

Hi, I'm Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Kind of a trick question.

I guess you'd call it a trick question. It' one of those you probably already know the answer to that. Thing is appreciation is endlessly important. At least, this has been my experience. So I found that there are two extremes that a person could fall into. And one is that situation where it feels as though there are no options.

It's this dark bleak place. And I'd mentioned a conversation I had with a friend the other few days ago, this dark bleak place where it seemed like nothing works, right? Nothing will ever go your way.

That's the thought pattern you go in, that's the cloud that follows you around. And that's a horrible scenario to be in, eventually, you find your way out of it.

Eventually, as long as you hang in there, you can get out of that mess.

But it's not fun being in. And we've all, we've all been in it at some point, I would think I've not been least I've never met a human that hasn't.

How I stay out of that place, though. I think a whole lot of it comes back to appreciating every little moment you can, every little situation where you can sense a blessing, for lack of a better word, you can sense something that is just magical that's happening in your life.

It is sometimes it's very subtle, one simple, sometimes it's a birth of a child, sometimes it's something where you almost get into a car accident, and just a split second of attention being directed the right way, or moving the steering wheel just a little bit differently, and everything's okay.

Just you need to take the moment, at least a moment, to appreciate it, to say, thank you, whatever it is, thank you, and be able to just sit back and not not in an egotistical way not in Oh, boy, how great Am I that I was able to?

It's like, you know, wonderful, so fabulous that this happened to me. And if you appreciate the good things that happened to you in life, you attract more of it into your life, I believe.

You see more things that you wouldn't have seen before you see more great things happening all the time. But it comes from stopping. Coming from that perspective of cursing everything that you see, of saying, Oh, why now Oh, why this?

Or why this pain?

Oh, why this thing here?

Oh, no, not this again, that repeats over and over in your head. But if you can, if you can pull back from that, and not let it overtake you and just appreciate every little thing, all of a sudden go you will go through periods of time where it's the it goes to the opposite end of what I was talking about that dark cloud to where you have so much going on.

This week has been this way for me. So and it's funny because I was on a on a call and I think I mentioned it before we're we're doing a book study.

Though I know I have some of the people in the book, study that watch and listen here.

There was a question early on, you know, who had something amazing happening this week?

I humbled said something, but I wouldn't even know where to start. Because I had so many amazing occurrences and the type of things you can't possibly even hardly put into words, because I had long running questions of what do I do about this?