Gratitude vs Feelings Of Authenticity. How To Feel Empowered And Invincible In The Face Of Uncertainty And Rejection

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Could it be that gratitude and self-righteous well-earned frustration are on the same spectrum to activate the Law of Attraction?

I know how important it is to be grateful and appreciative. And I also know that sometimes when I do everything right, everything seems to go wrong.

It makes me really mad at the Universe.

For example, I didn’t get the office I wanted. It really was a big deal, and I felt like a spoiled kid not getting my way. I had finally emerged from being stuck, found clarity about which career to follow and I committed. It wasn’t an easy journey. I even got a free office like some kind of reward from above.

Then I lost it.

Eventually I took responsibility for the fact that when I did have the office — for free as long as it was vacant — I didn’t appreciate it.

It smelled like grease and dirt from old wood walls. I was always scrubbing. And it had a broken window that never got fixed in spite of promises every week. My husband even painted two of the doors bright pink thinking paint smell could neutralize the bad odors. It looked pretty, more like a…