My Gratitudes for the week of 3/11- 3/17

"Appreciate the great people and things in your life. – Sometimes we don’t notice the things others do for us until they stop doing them.  Don’t be like that.  Be grateful for what you have, who loves you, and who cares for you.  You’ll never know how much they mean to you until the day they’re no longer beside you.  Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you.  Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it to live." M & A Hack

                                                                     

I've been thinking a lot lately of all the people I need to thank. I'd gotten into the practice within this past year where I was sending thank you letters and notes to people for kind gestures, things done, or just for the fact that they had added to my day, and therefore my life--- by whatever acts of generosity or kindness they had displayed. This ranged from a thank you to my dad, for doing something for me I didn't ask him to do, to the girl at Walmart, who went out of her way to explain a photo program feature I didn't know about, on a photo editing program we both used. Well beyond the "requirements" of her job. I was inspired to do this by reading a book called 365 Thank Yous. (To find out more about this wonderful book, as well as a link and review, click on the Gratitude In Books tab).

Unfortunately, I've allowed myself to fall away from the practice and it's eating at me. So it's time for me to commit my list to paper, the list that is in my head mentally, of all I know deserve to be thanked and acknowledged, and start writing those thanks you. I have a lot of people in my life to thank!