Lighting Your Way With Gratitude, The Rescuing Attitude!
Prologue to: Lighting Your Way With Gratitude, The Rescuing Attitude!
- What you most intentionally think about, day by day, either lifts your quality of life or sinks you into the miseries of stinking thinking!
- Stinking thinking means ignoring the daily engagement of the arts of appreciation and thankfulness for your Biological, Economic, Social and Spiritual blessings of contentment and joy that you do have!
- Day by day, little by little, build on the strengths that you do have by developing positive response attitudes, behaviors and habits promoted in the postings on this positive-response-practical-poetry blog. Reading poetic literature is one way to engage courage and wisdom to help you resist stinking thinking!
- This self-help positive response poetry project will help you know and understand how to lift up and sustain your quality of life with the daily habits of appreciation and thankfulness.
- Day by day be patient, persist and persevere until you habitually practice the arts of gratitude; that is, use the tools of appreciation and thankfulness to explore your blessings regarding your biological, economic, social and spiritual assets! Having awareness and respect for the blessings you do have is an excellent way to avoid the debilitating miseries resulting from stinking thinking attitudes and habits.
- “Never be defined by your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence: If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Unknown
“Lighting Your Way With Gratitude The Rescuing Attitude!”
Overcoming and resisting dark thinking,
Is gratitude’s way of keeping you from sinking…
Stinking thinking is what you must submerge,
Self-pity and fear are always the wrong thing to do whenever the urge…
When you awaken turn on the lights of appreciation and thankfulness,
They are the tools for gratefulness…
Without gratitude you are exposing yourself to becoming a jerk,
For sure stinking thinking will leave you in the lurch…
The daily practice of the arts of appreciation and thankfulness,
Can help you create, engage and adopt new positive habits of gratefulness…
Start each new day with appreciation and thankfulness for the blessing you do have
regarding your personal situation,
Your Biological, Economic, Social and Spiritual foundations.
- Some Conclusions to help you create strategies for resisting stinking thinking:
- Realize that everything that exists has its opposite,
- For Biological health you must resist unhealthy habits,
- For Economic wellbeing you must resist ignorance and laziness by acquiring knowledge and understanding that can help you serve others,
- For Social health you must resist disregard and disrespect of others and yourself,
- For Spiritual health you must resist self-pity, fear, fickleness, despair…
- You can’t have love without resisting the stinking thinking of hate,
- You can’t have peace without resisting the stinking thinking of anger,
- Understanding requires that you must resist misunderstanding,
The power of knowledge from poetry reading, reciting and writing
is like a mental gymnasium that helps you resist ignorance and cynicism!
- The following resources will help you know, understand and create ways to practice
the arts of gratitude, that is, appreciation and thankfulness to, day by day, refresh your wellbeing and wellness; basically your quality of life!
- Tools to help you be engaged and achieving the blessings and benefits of practicing the arts of gratitude!
- gratefulness: Develops knowledge and understanding of what gratitude is about. Very important!
- Searches related to the art of practicing gratitude day by day:
- how to practice gratitude : A great resource for ready made strategies for practicing the arts of gratitude!
- Searches related to stinking thinking:
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- how to overcome stinking thinking: Strategies for dumping stinking thinking that drags you down!
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- how to fix stinking thinking: Includes strategies for dumping stinking thinking!
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- Searches for other encouraging and inspiring posts on this blog.
- Archive URL: https://www.fivestarteacher.com/archives/
- “Never be defined by your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence: If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Unknown
- When you habitually practice the habits of gratitude you’ll be enabling yourself to
resist the miseries of stinking thinking!

Like nature, always be refreshing and renewing your attitude; stay fresh and blooming with positive response practical poetry on this blog. Thank you
P.S. Day by day, Light Your Way With Gratitude, The Rescuing Attitude!
The positive-response-practical-poetry on this blog was created for the unique needs of this author. It is an accumulation of life wisdom of 86 years.
I have found that reading, writing and reciting poetic literature is an effective way to rescue myself from stinking thinking. I hope that you, dear reader, will create and share self-help-positive-response-practical poetry to share for the common good.
The formula for the Blooming Bobville positive response practical poetry was created by this author by melding taxonomies of learning with a modified version of the classical Villanelle poetry format. The purpose of this format and style is to accommodate ease of understanding and practical application.
Information about Taxonomies of learning and the Villanelle can be found on the Internet to help you with your own learning challenges.
Best of luck as you live your life in the service of others: Blooming Bobville the positive response practical poet for the common good.
*Inspiring Quotations:
- “The best way to know who you are and what you are is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “ I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know, the only ones who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” -Albert Schweitzer.
- “We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.”-William Osler
- Disclaimer: On Home Page-Located in the “side-bar”: Be aware this website does not substitute medical, legal, psychological or any other professional advice. This is a teaching and a self-education poetry blog only, in the fashion of poetry by William Wordsworth and his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, circa 1798.