When you are doing a gratitude journal or a gratitude practice, consider giving thanks for what is going to come to you, not just the things you’ve already received.

Why?

Because the universe doesn’t know time like you do. Remember it’s operating based on vibrations. And when you give thanks for something that you can’t yet see but want, it will pick up on that vibration and start to create the proper circumstances.

You can’t just write or say this thanks once though. You have to feel as if you have received it already. Be happy about it. Feel it’s a part of you. Make it a part of you. You need to emanate or be in that vibration all the time. It’s the constancy of being in that state that will continue to draw it to you.

This may not happen right away and some people have decided when they feel the universe should deliver. You should know my thoughts on that by now. Your gift will come when it’s supposed to come and it may not be in the form you asked for but it will be exactly right for hour path.

In 2019 I wanted to get a new car. I did all the right things. I listed all the features I wanted and visualized it etc. it didn’t happen. And I “gave it” several months and then I just stopped putting a lot of energy into it. It still didn’t come but the pandemic did. And I retired. So it went on the back burner.

When the pandemic was over, I eventually got back to the car. To make a long story short. I got exactly what I needed and wanted and more importantly I got it for the price I had been willing to pay before the pandemic and there are no cars at that price post pandemic.

Why did it take so long. Lots of reasons but I was still in love with my old car and I didn’t want to get rid of it. Plus and more importantly, I didn’t take enough action in 2019 to find it. I acted as if someone would just drive it to my door. It doesn’t work that way. You have to take action. I never went looking for it. It was just a wish at that point.

It was a great lesson. Give gratitude for what is coming your way and then take action to make it happen.