Gratitude needs first to come from within ourselves –
Remember, as you teach your child to say thank you when you hand them a cookie, is it you who needs the thank you or are you giving a life lesson? Hopefully it is a life lesson, so an example might be when the garbage men comes to take away our garbage, we should be grateful. Yes they are paid to do their job and in this economy they are fortunate to even have a job. But don’t we become better people for feeling the appreciation and then the next level would be expressing that appreciation?