Being Grateful for what you already have in life helps you to stay alive!

 There is a saying: "Gratitude is the motor of life!" 

As a younger person I had trouble with this one especially between 18 and 25 because I wasn't doing what I believed I wanted to at the time. I didn't feel successful like I wanted to in life. However, then I got married and had a son and then I found I was grateful to be married with a son. I realized that I wasn't someone who would ever be happy living alone without someone too take care of.

It was a surprise to me because I had never seen myself as a caregiver and yet it fit me perfectly being a father even though I'm not sure being a husband comes naturally to any man but it goes with the territory of being a father (at least it did for me).

So, the point is I was grateful for my son and my first wife was hard on me partly because I had had so many girlfriends before her and she was a little jealous of my experiences. But, for me, it just made me want to be a good father more because I was 26 years old.

Then I realized I wanted to own businesses and that I didn't like working for other people. So, having a son and a wife made me want to succeed in business. So, I was motivated to take care of my wife and child then by starting or buying businesses by my late 20s.

So, for me, family gave me the gratitude that it took to keep me going and staying alive for my family.

Before this I was all over the place with Rock Climbing and off road motorcycles and mountain climbing and Surfing and Skiing. So, i gave up Rock Climbing because a friend of mine died doing this and another pulled a multi-pin zipper which means your pitons are pulling out of the rock because you have fallen too hard on a rock face so you are hanging there on your rope.

So, gratitude began when I bonded with my son and later my other children as they came along over the years. It gave me the strength to stay alive and make money to support everyone as best I could along the way.

So, even now my children and my grandchildren give me the motivation and the Gratitude to stay alive for them even now at 78.

By God's Grace