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.

The Four Agreements

Yup

That book you got makes me so brainy!

There's no such thing as rejection!

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” ~ Steve Maraboli