The power of appreciation (POA)

Thank you. Isn´t that one of the first things your mother repeats non stop when you are growing up?

¿Claudia, cómo se dice? (Claudia, and what do you say?) T-H-A-N-K-Y-O-U-! 

Many of us learnt to say thank you as an exchange of something that we were given, but why didn´t we learn to accept gratitude as well? I have heard many people say, oh no! you don´t need to say thank you. When the fact is that when we accept gratitude we also say thank you back :)

I have always worked for big companies, and I have always felt nobody really cared about me. They never said thank you, they never said well done. But was I showing my gratitude to them as well? of course not. why would I care? The truth is:  the day I started to appreciate myself more and appreciate all the good things in my life, -everything- got more relaxed and better... and cheesy enough, it got happier.

My collegues were happy to help me because I was happy to help them, my bosses were happy to let me go out in the middle of the day to take a workshop I really wanted to take because I was always there for them as a support. I knew I deserve to prepare myself more as much as they deserve my support.

Today, I just want to leave you with this thought: Offer thank you everytime you can, and also recieve it, gladly :) Appreciate everything without asking yourself why this and not that. It is an interesting excercise, and from my experience, I cant tell you, it makes you feel lighter :)

Thank you for being around me :) !!