Gratitude: Day 8

Today I am grateful for:

1.) Fun girls weekend! I'm feeling refreshed from the weekend and ready to start the work week after a great weekend with some of my best friends!

2.) Having lots of healthy food in my house to start out the week.

3.) Clean house and laundry done. Ready for Monday!

Gratitude: Day 7

Today, I am grateful for:

 

1.) Living in same town with one of my best girl friends. This is the first time since 2006 I have lived in same town of one of my bestirs and it's pretty awesome!

2.) Girls weekend! Several of my very best friends are coming in town this weekend and I am so thankful we have the opportunity to spend the weekend together. Can't wait! 

3.) Making the time to get more organized at work. I do a little each day and it feels so good to get a new system going in my new job.

Gratitude Day 6

Today, I am grateful for:

1.) My new cleaning lady. She is awesome and does an awesome job everytime! I paid her a little bit extra today because she is so awesome :-)

2.) A very, very productive day at work. Every meeting was purposeful and solutions oriented and really felt like my teams moved forward on several projects. Most importantly, I made a huge dent in cleaning up and organizing my emails and that feels awesome!

3.) The little deli that is just a few blocks from my house. Their food is fresh and delicious and it is only a 15 minute or less round trip...perfect for a day like today when I only had a half hour for lunch!

True Story of Working from Home

Gratitude Day 5

Today, I am grateful for:

1.) My new bed. It is awesome and everytime I have to sleep in a hotel bed, I appreciate my new bed even more! 

2.) A quick and easy drive home from Houston with very little traffic.

3.) TGIF! Grateful for the weekend!!!

Gratitude Day 4

Today I am grateful for:

1.) Making good choices to eat for nourishment instead of for convenience or pleasure. Okay maybe that Dr Pepper at lunch was for pleasure but I did pretty good overall today.

2.) Deciding to focus on "WHEN I" instead of "IF I" and on what I want vs what I don't want :-)

3.) The opportunity to spend some time with a wonderful woman on one of the teams I manage.  Her positive attitude and commercial / professional maturity in spite of the unfair situation she is in right now is incredibly impressive. Very glad to have her on my team and to have the opportunity to develop and coach her! Such great energy!

30 Days of Gratitude: Day 3

Today I am grateful for:

1.) Good meeting and what seems to be a new way forward with a very difficult buyer at one of my customers.

2.) Coffee! I had to wake up super early today and drive to another town and everytime I have to get up early, I seem to get no sleep! Last night I only slept 2 hours but a big coffee with an extra shot of espresso got me thru the day and all the way to the next town for more meetings tomorrow!

3.) Clean and cozy hotel room with a nice firm bed. I'm going to bed early tonight! 

Goodnight world!!

Oh wait! Bonus: I've started journaling privately on a daily basis. It's been really cathartic and also relaxing to reflect at the end of each day. I'm grateful for the time to do this as I know the reflection time is very good thing :-)

Say what needs to be said with thoughtful kindness

30 Days of Gratitude: Day 2

Today, I am grateful for:

1.) Working from home...grateful for this for a lot of reasons but today I was not feeling well and working from home allows me to sleep in and take mini breaks during the day...and enables me to stay in my pajamas all day!

2.) Excellent health insurance thru my company. My allergies have gone bananas since relocating. I decided to go see an allergy doctor and get tested for allergies. It can cost between $500-$800 but thanks to my great insurance, the testing and the treatments will be 100% covered!

3.) My friend Foxy...she's just an all around wonderful person in general so I'm always grateful she is in my life but today she sent me a sweet text message to cheer me up and well wishes to feel better which put a smile on my face. Love you foxy! 

30 Days of Gratitude: Day 1

Today I am grateful for:

1. Finding a pilates studio that I REALLY like so close to my house! I love Pilates! Today it kicked my ass but it was awesome:-)
2. FaceTime! It is so fun when my niece wants to FaceTime to show me what songs she is working on for voice, piana and guitar.
3. Cooler temps...hello Fall! Well...hopefully it stays cool but I'll take it regardless!

 

 

Joe Pilates on the Reformer

30 Days Gratitude Challenge: 2014

Last year I was in a big 'ole funk when I saw a Ted Talk where the speaker said, "If you want to change your attitude, start practicing gratitude!" After watching that Ted Talk and knowing I needed an attitude adjustment at the time, I decided to start 30 days of practicing gratitude each day and used this blog to write the top 3 things I was grateful for each day. It took me a lot longer than 30 days to complete the 30 days of posting but I was so glad I did it! It really made a HUGE difference in how I was feeling at the time and helped me get out of the funk I was going thru at the time.

I was recently challenged to complete 5 days of gratitude on Facebook and after completing it, I decided I wanted to repeat my 30 day Gratitude challenge in 2014. Things are going terrific for me this year but I do think it is important to take time to not only be thankful for what you have but to also be present in your life today...letting go of the past, living in the moment and to not spend a lot of time longing for the future as it will be here soon enough.