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!

My Gratitudes for the week of 1/22 - 1/29

     Saying thank you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality.    ~Alfred Painter  

 

Another week on this earth is completed and I have had much to be grateful for as usual. Despite the things that have come up, that I have had to deal with or that have frustrated me. Focusing on those things that are wonderful in my life have helped me keep things in perspective. There were a couple of days that were a little harder for me to feel this way. This was not because I didn't feel grateful, only that when my pain level goes up-  it affects my moods, my mentality and my over-all feeling of well being, (basically I don't feel good, so my well-being feeling goes down the toilet). This is a constant struggle for me to over come. It is, in fact, part of why I started my gratitude board. As a visual reminder right on the fridge to make me see what I have in my life already. To force me to think about it and write it down. Not hidden somewhere in a journal that I may or may not remember to write in. But right out there for everyone to see.

In sharing mine, I hope that it inspires you and helps you as well, to remember how much you have in your life. I am, of course, grateful that you have taken time out of your life to spend it reading my blog.
--Thank you.

Showing My Gratitude

I had wanted to get this Blog going a lot sooner then this and then just be able to post each day my gratitude photos but things haven't quite worked out like that. It's funny because I feel like I have so many projects that I would like to get done and less and less time to do them. I think it's because of so many of the other stuff going on. That's what makes this even more important. To help keep my focus on what I am grateful for. And there is so much. There really is. So here it is. I am catching up on getting things posted and loaded. I really hope that this turns out to be the blog that I want it to be. I am sure it will evolve but here's where things start. I also hope that my gratitudes, and those of others, help inspire you and even nudge you to think of the things that you are grateful for as well.

 

Now I'm not sure what happened between the 6th and the 15th but I can't find any pictures anywhere. So there is a gap. There have been times when I not always written on my gratitude board and written in my gratitude journal instead. But 2012 I had decided that I would try to write on it every day. Occasionally a day will get missed but my goal really is to have even just ONE thing written every day. On the days that I write less, well.... those might be very bad days for me indeed. But I as I said, I want to write at least one thing, even on my most horrible days.

I haven't loaded yesterday's or today's photo's yet. I will be adding them in my next entry. I wanted to get at least current up to the present. I hope that you will go on this journey with me... a journey of gratitude.