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1. I am grateful for the rain
2. I am grateful for windscreen wipers
3. I am grateful for my boys’ school
4. I am grateful for deoderant
5. I am grateful for raincoats and umbrellas
6. I am grateful for musicians
7. I am grateful for my new personal trainer
8. I am grateful for my beautiful boys
9. I am grateful for my wonderful husband
10. I am grateful for D_____ who always makes me laugh
1. a busy semester.
2. cloudy days.
3. getting back in touch with old friend.
4. my sturdy treadmill.
5. fun podcasts.
6. Yoga Journal.
7. e-mail.
8. quinoa.
9. TiVo.
10. getting my body-mind-spirit connection back to a healthy place.
1. I am grateful for students who really get into the lessons I’m teaching.
2. I am grateful for pre-made lunches that save me money.
3. I am grateful for fast lines at the registrar’s office.
4. I am grateful to have almost all my paperwork ready for Dawson.
5. I am grateful for I_____’s cooking.
6. I am grateful for The Prestige—really good, thought-provoking movie.
7. I am grateful for time spent with Ian.
8. I am grateful for The Princess Bride, which never ceases to make me laught.
9. I am grateful for last night spent with Ferrero Rochers, Bailey’s Ice cream, The Princess Bride, and snuggles from my boyfriend.
10. I am grateful for this morning, which was spent with my boyfriend and lots of snuggles.
Like a rose bud beautiful in form and color...perfect in every way....How can it get better?
But slowly more color appears along with a hint of fragrance
One by one the petals reveal
I looking forward to seeing the full rose.
I am grateful for the journey that I’m experiencing and exciting about what lies ahead.
1. construction work in the adjoining lot forcing me out of bed early in the morning.
2. my second and last Psychology project being finished by Tuesday.
3. getting not one, but two issues of Yoga Journal in the mail yesterday.
4. waking up next to John each and every morning.
5. tax refunds.
6. smiley face stickers.
7. getting more comfortable with just being with myself.
8. looking in the mirror and not hating what I see.
9. podcasts that keep me entertained during my time on the treadmill.
10. the upcoming weekend!
1. I am grateful for my boyfriend, who gave me a lift to work.
2. I am grateful for the resources, both books and people, at the Learning Centre, who are helping me phase into my job.
3. I am grateful for a new work contract.
4. I am grateful for N______’s two-year-old daughter, who is at the age when absolutely anything she does is amazingly cute.
5. I am grateful for N_______, who made me dinner, entertained me, and let me play with her daughter.
6. I am grateful that I performed well at karaoke last night on I Love Rock N Roll.
7. I am grateful for the really fast queue for my first karaoke song—only 15 minutes!
8. I am grateful for Chris the DJ, who harmonized with me on Mustang Sally.
9. I am grateful to be able to offer people lifts.
10. I am grateful for snuggles. Very, very grateful indeed.
1. I am grateful for snuggles.
2. I am grateful for a nifty math book that’s helping me re-learn what I’ve forgotten.
3. I am grateful for RoboRally, and for I_____ and my brother for playing it with me.
4. I am grateful for clean clothes.
5. I am grateful for a knowledge base big enough that writing documentation for an historical crafts competition entry only took 10 minutes.
6. I am grateful for a big box of my business cards.
7. I am grateful to be covered by health insurance.
8. I am grateful that I do not need to work on Fridays.
9. I am grateful for my teddy bear.
10. I am grateful for my brother’s scientific calculator. Calculators make log functions much, much easier.
Yesterday I was at an SCA event. The SCA is a medieval reenactment society, and I’ve been a member for almost 8 years. So almost everything on the gratitude journal is related to the event.
1. I am grateful for my Troubadour—an award I received for singing and storytelling.
2. I am grateful for the staff of office Hawise made me (I am our local Minister of Arts and Sciences)—it’s really beautiful.
3. I am grateful for bardic circles with an ever-growing number of performers.
4. I am grateful for G________’s fiddling.
5. I am grateful for receptive audiences.
6. I am grateful for soft, velvety dates.
7. I am grateful to have seen so many long-lost friends and to have received so many hugs (especially “pick me up” hugs).
8. I am grateful for tasty feast.
9. I am grateful for L______’s awesome wooden tables and keg: they really added to the atmosphere.
10. I am grateful to all the event organizers, without whom there would have been no event
Heya Julie and everyone - what an awesome thread! Gratitude is something I don’t believe I can ever choose to feel too much of, and I love the idea of having somewhere to share my ‘grateful fors’… so here’s my introductory gratitudes…
1- I’m grateful for having found this forum thread, so I can share my blessings with other people who won’t think I’m weird, and so I can be inspired by their recognitions of their blessings
2- I’m grateful to discover Julie’s an SCA-nik, so when I first post about one of my exercise sessions being a 3-hour training session at Auckland Sword & Shield (a medieval weapons group who train with longswords, shields, daggers etc), there’ll be at least one person here who’ll know what I’m talking about :-D
3- I’m grateful for my job - getting paid to write is pretty much the fulfilment of a dream for me
4- I’m grateful that my job is within walking distance of my house, so I can build exercise into my day even if I *don’t* get to the gym
5- I’m grateful to have found the MTM community, and for the inspiration and accountability it’s going to provide me with
6- I’m grateful for the background to recognise that it really is about the choices I make, not about anything else
7- I’m grateful for my wonderful husband who’s so different from me, and who supports and complements me in all the areas I’m not strong in
8- I’m grateful for the rain that poured down pretty much the moment I finished my workout - I got totally drenched on the way home, which made that hot shower when I got home that much more wonderful on my skin
9- I’m grateful for recognising that I had a choice in how I saw getting drenched - and for noticing that the moment I stopped thinking of it as a bad thing and just let it be a thing, the rain suddenly felt quite delicious and sensual on my face - it’s only when I was resisting it that it felt bad.
10 - I’m grateful to have a warm, cosy bed to head into once I finish posting, with a warm, cosy husband who loves me exactly as I am to curl up with
1. I am grateful for RoboRally and my own skill therein.
2. I am grateful to be working my brain with math again.
3. I am grateful for I______’s mom’s cooking.
4. I am grateful for everyone in the Firefly game.
5. I am grateful that my dice finally started rolling well last night.
6. I am grateful for cuddles.
7. I am grateful for slowly-decreasing time for lesson-planning.
8. I am grateful that the Daylight Savings Time shift happens on a weekend.
9. I am grateful for the scroll for my Troubadour, because it’s very pretty.
10. I am grateful for my alarm clock, which allows me to wake up on time.
1. I am grateful for my new ESL contract.
2. I am grateful for reconnecting with long-lost friends over pool.
3. I am grateful for the previously-unheard of phenomenon of my winning two (count’em, two) games of pool last night.
4. I am grateful for Tim Horton’s breakfast biscuits.
5. I am grateful for my dad, who took me for lunch and good conversation.
6. I am grateful for a day off from teaching.
7. I am grateful for Ken from Dawson’s continuing education department, who explained a few things to me today.
8. I am grateful for podcasts and remembering to put them onto my ipod.
9. I am grateful for online ESL resources.
10. I am grateful for morning snuggles.
I’m just working my way through The Secret for a third time. It’s got me thinking about an ‘attitude of gratitude’. Then, I remembered this thread.
I’m not sure how long you’ve been going with the gratitude journal postings ... but I think the idea was to stay at it ... thinking about all the things you are greatful for ... for some thirty days. What are you noticing? Has the exercise provided changed perspective? Has the exercise generated unanticipated outcomes? Are you attracting things to you? Has it countered negative outlook?
I’ve been doing this for just over a month. I’ve found that, in general, it has made me aware of things in my life to be grateful for. At the very least, it allows me a few moments every evening to reflect on my day and why I should be happy I’ve lived it.
I don’t think positive thinking alone (for example, a gratitude journal) can take away all the negativity of life. I’ve had trying days, just like everyone else. On the other hand, if the only thing I record are the positive aspects, then when I look back over the month it seems very happy.
The other thing that has helped me about keeping a gratitude journal is the increasing ability to transform a negative situation into a positive one, by thinking about it differently. Yesterday I was caught out in the rain. Instead of cursing dumb luck, I instead shifted my focus to thoughts like, “I’m so glad I have dry clothes waiting for me at home,” “I’m so glad it’s raining and not snowing—it’s spring!”, “I’m so glad my hair is tied back and whisking the water away from my face.” And so on.
So the short answer is, yes and no. Life has not dramatically changed since last month. On the other hand, my thinking slowly has.
The best advice I can give you is simply to try it and see if it works for you.
March 15, 2007, written on the way home from karate class:
1. I am grateful for Miriam’s spontenous gift of pi cookies. (Did you know that yesterday was pi day?)
2. I am grateful for perfectly timed metros.
3. I am grateful for M______, who walked me to the metro after karate.
4. I am grateful for the good news my boyfriend received today.
5. I am grateful that I found Snow Crash on the shelves at Blue Monday, when I had some time to kill this afternoon.
6. I am grateful for Blue Monday’s comfy couches and basking in the rays of an afternoon sunbeam.
7. I am grateful for Blue Monday’s chocolate-raspberry muffins.
8. I am grateful for two hours of downtime at work so that I could finish reading my book.
9. I am grateful for the possibility of continuing to play in the Toronto D&D;game.
10. I am grateful for gorgeous weather.
11. I am grateful for free seats on the metro.
12. I am grateful for green tea.
13. I am grateful for my ipod, which has all my favourite songs.
14. I am grateful that today is payday!
15. I am grateful for long, hot showers.
16. I am grateful for my own room and the privacy to share it with my boyfriend.
17. I am grateful for serious, dedicated karate partners.
18. I am grateful to live so close to a metro.
19. I am grateful to sing along to Stan Rogers on my ipod.
20. I am grateful for fiddle music.
Has the exercise provided changed perspective? Has the exercise generated unanticipated outcomes? Are you attracting things to you? Has it countered negative outlook?
