Gratitude: the Gift That Keeps on Giving!
Hello My Wonderful Access Your Potential Family!
Boy, can you believe it’s November with Thanksgiving only a couple weeks away? Life just whizzes by sometimes, doesn’t it? As some of you may have noted, I was unable to get a Sept. newsletter out and while this article was in my Oct. E-zine, I thought I’d post here as well for those who hadn’t gotten a chance to read it yet. So the reason for my temporary silence is that September was a month taken up primarily with surgery and recovery for me. I am delighted to put closure on that season and report that I’m feeling great! So I’m back and I’m Grateful!!!
Oh, and I’m full of questions to get you in the gratitude mood too! For those of us in the U.S., it is the “Thanksgiving” time of year you know, so what better time could there possibly be to celebrate our gratitude!
What are you grateful for? Take a moment to think of just one thing or person that you feel blessed to have in your life right now. Why are you grateful for this person, situation or thing? Pause your reading of this so you can fully immerse yourself in your thoughts and feelings of gratitude.
Now, as you return to your reading of this text, take note of how you feel. Do you notice that even the act of being grateful causes your heart and spirit to sing? Do you find yourself thinking of even more things you are grateful for? If not, you might be distracted or unable to truly immerse yourself in gratitude right now. But when you are able, you will want to try this intentional focus on gratitude again and experience the synergistic results. Gratitude truly is the gift that keeps on giving! Really! Try it, you’ll like it!
I recently flew to southern California in order to attend a family reunion designed around celebrating my Grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary. The whole time I was there my predominant thought was how grateful I am to have been born into such an incredible family. Sure, we have our “stuff to deal with” like all families, but what a brilliant, loving and kind bunch of people I am blessed to be related to!
More specifically, since we were gathered to honor two amazing people in particular, I couldn’t stop thinking of how inexpressibly grateful I am for being gifted Jan and Jay Hale as my grandparents! Throughout my life they have been my mentors, my friends and the rock I know I can count on whenever I am feeling everything else slip away. Cheers to you my beloved Grandpa and Grandma! When I grow up I want to be just like you!
As you, dear reader, also think of what you are grateful for, you are going to notice something wonderful. It is the very thing I am noticing even now and forcing myself to stifle a bit so that this article stays readable rather than ridiculously long for this brief E-zine. The fact is that once we start intentionally recognizing and sharing those things we’re grateful for, it’s super hard to stop!
You see I am now thinking of how amazingly grateful I am for: my incredible soul mate and husband, my wonderfully supportive parents (I am even blessed with two sets), my loving friends, my amazing clients, my beautiful home, and the list goes on.
Somebody Stop Me!
OK I’ll keep it going in my heart but bid you a loving farewell with this final quote.
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward
Indeed, my friends, may your cup runneth over with gratitude!
Hello My Wonderful Access Your Potential Family!
Boy, can you believe it’s November with Thanksgiving only a couple weeks away? Life just whizzes by sometimes, doesn’t it? As some of you may have noted, I was unable to get a Sept. newsletter out and while this article was in my Oct. E-zine, I thought I’d post here as well for those who hadn’t gotten a chance to read it yet. So the reason for my temporary silence is that September was a month taken up primarily with surgery and recovery for me. I am delighted to put closure on that season and report that I’m feeling great! So I’m back and I’m Grateful!!!
Oh, and I’m full of questions to get you in the gratitude mood too! For those of us in the U.S., it is the “Thanksgiving” time of year you know, so what better time could there possibly be to celebrate our gratitude!
What are you grateful for? Take a moment to think of just one thing or person that you feel blessed to have in your life right now. Why are you grateful for this person, situation or thing? Pause your reading of this so you can fully immerse yourself in your thoughts and feelings of gratitude.
Now, as you return to your reading of this text, take note of how you feel. Do you notice that even the act of being grateful causes your heart and spirit to sing? Do you find yourself thinking of even more things you are grateful for? If not, you might be distracted or unable to truly immerse yourself in gratitude right now. But when you are able, you will want to try this intentional focus on gratitude again and experience the synergistic results. Gratitude truly is the gift that keeps on giving! Really! Try it, you’ll like it!
I recently flew to southern California in order to attend a family reunion designed around celebrating my Grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary. The whole time I was there my predominant thought was how grateful I am to have been born into such an incredible family. Sure, we have our “stuff to deal with” like all families, but what a brilliant, loving and kind bunch of people I am blessed to be related to!
More specifically, since we were gathered to honor two amazing people in particular, I couldn’t stop thinking of how inexpressibly grateful I am for being gifted Jan and Jay Hale as my grandparents! Throughout my life they have been my mentors, my friends and the rock I know I can count on whenever I am feeling everything else slip away. Cheers to you my beloved Grandpa and Grandma! When I grow up I want to be just like you!
As you, dear reader, also think of what you are grateful for, you are going to notice something wonderful. It is the very thing I am noticing even now and forcing myself to stifle a bit so that this article stays readable rather than ridiculously long for this brief E-zine. The fact is that once we start intentionally recognizing and sharing those things we’re grateful for, it’s super hard to stop!
You see I am now thinking of how amazingly grateful I am for: my incredible soul mate and husband, my wonderfully supportive parents (I am even blessed with two sets), my loving friends, my amazing clients, my beautiful home, and the list goes on.
Somebody Stop Me!
OK I’ll keep it going in my heart but bid you a loving farewell with this final quote.
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward
Indeed, my friends, may your cup runneth over with gratitude!
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