Gratitude.
Tags:This morning I was listening to an audio portion from Heidi Swapp's A Year To Remember class at Big Picture Scrapbooking - it was all about gratitude. It totally hit home with me. I needed to hear her message (I am continually amazed at how things flow in just this way).
I have been super grouchy lately. Grumpy & grumbly and generally down. In a funk that has been tough to shake.
Now I know that being grateful is a really effective way to get out of feeling down. I know it. And yet, I have been wallowing in that overall yuckiness. Allowing little things to push me over the edge. Little patience. Sounds like I have been really fun to be around doesn't it? Poor Chris.
This is why I love taking classes, why I love being a student, why I never want to stop being a student: I learn stuff that helps me in my life. So thanks Heidi - thanks for telling me what I needed to hear and reminding me how very important an attitude of gratitude really is in each of our lives.
I am going to get myself out of this funk.
So here I go - here are six things I am grateful for RIGHT NOW:
1. UPS shipping. They come right to my door.
2. My Mom coming for a visit tonight & making a Costco stop for dog food for Lily & detergent for laundry.
3. Pop dots. They are making a project I am working on come together.
4. Gas dusters. I hate having dust and junk inside my keyboard and this can blows it all right out.
5. The ability to get up right now and go take a hot shower and then dress myself in a cozy sweater and jeans.
6. The generosity of people. Over 200 donations (over $6000) directly to Autism Speaks. Thank you.
Anyone else need to get over grumpiness or out of a bad mood? I think I need a bigger list or that hot shower right about now. What are you grateful for this moment?
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I'm taking Kolette's class at BPS, and we had to come up with 100 things we were grateful for. Man, that was hard! I think it took me a week, and I was in a bad mood, too. But I have it, and can reference it -- and maybe expand on it.
Maybe it's an idea you want to try.
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Gratitude... that cosmic 2x4 that we always seem to forget at our worst and sometimes our best moments. Muddling through a migraine and feeling pretty dumpy today, I was grateful to read your post whice inspired me to spread the word in my own journal... Memoirs of a Runaway Heart. I hope this is something I can remember to keep up with. Thanks again for the inspiration.
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Hey friend! Thanks for this, it created this:
http://mysweetabbeyrose.blogspot.com/
My list includes pics so it's on my blog :)
Totally need to do a gratitude list every once in a while, it refreshes the soul :)
Chin up!
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I am grateful for grace and forgiveness. I am grateful for the power of the lord. I am grateful for love and understanding. I am grateful for human nature. I am grateful for the ability to provide a roof over my familys head and food on the table. I am grateful for my two healthy babies. I am grateful for the past. I am grateful for my brain. I am grateful for my hands. I am grateful for the life I lived and the life I am living. I am grateful that some ideas are only fleeting. I am grateful for this little box that I am typing in. I am grateful that I read this post today because it may just help push away my own funky feeling.
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I'm not glad to hear that you are grouchy but it's nice to see that it happens to everybody! Connecticut is cold and gray and overall, depressing. Try going to a bookstore with a good tea or coffee and just sit. That helps me...
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