Gratitude is an important key to the law of attraction and manifesting things into your life.  The more grateful you are the more your reality responds by sending things that match your energy.

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”~ William Arthur Ward

My father use to remind me of this whenever I seemed to have a bad day.  I would call him on the phone and start complaining about my day whether it was problems I was dealing with or people who were cruel to me, whatever the situation was that day.  He would always stop me in mid sentence and tell me that I should be grateful for what I do have.  He always reminded me that I could be lying up in a hospital bed dying of cancer.  When you stop and think about how fortunate you are, the little things are just insignificant all of a sudden.

I have a very good friend who has been sober now for eighteen years.  He is grateful every single day of his life that he has not picked up a drink.  He has struggled through some pretty rough times and although his journey is not always easy, he has come out on the other end.  Just being grateful for one more day without a drink is huge.

Gratitude plays such an important role in everyone's life.  Whether you look at it this way or not, it's what helps bring the best of your world into existence.  When you are grateful for what you have and even for what you are aspiring to have, the Universe is more willing to send you what you are grateful for.

Isn't it a wonderful feeling when someone tells you how grateful they are for you!  Doesn't that just make you feel so special and more willing to give more to that person!

If you remain in a state of non gratitude, your reality will respond to that.  The term that is used the most is "what you think about you bring about".  This is true because the state of your mind determines what you will manifest into your life.

Try practicing being more grateful for the things that you do have.  As I have learned through life experiences, there are so many people in the world today that aren't as fortunate as you are.  Just being grateful for what you do have will bring more of that into your life.