Daily Gratitude

Research shows that people who keep a daily gratitude list feel better about their lives as a whole and feel more optimistic about the coming week. Compared to control groups, they exercise more frequently and report fewer physical complaints. They also experience more positive emotions, fewer negative emotions, and exhibit more helpful behavior towards friends and neighbors. (Emmons & McCullough, 2003) -- more... What are you grateful for? Here's my list today. Feel free to add yours to the comments!

Thank you for fire, passion, enthusiasm, zest, clarity, wisdom, inspiration, excitement, joy--how many words can I use to express what I'm feeling right now? Thank you for opportunity and vision. Thank you for this incredible home--this incredible time that we live in. All I have to do for food is go to the grocery store and buy it! Thank you for all the people and events that make that possible. Thank you for this lovely weather--nice and cool and beautiful with all the leaves changing. Thank you for my amazing husband and children that bring so much joy to my life! Thank you for my book--and for all the technology that makes it possible to me to publish it and promote it. Thank you for putting me in the hospital! Thank you for the contest that finally forced me to tell my story. Thank you for Dani--I have learned so much from her and am so grateful that she still sits on my shoulder and whispers wisdom into my ear. Thank you for CJ!!!! One day soon I am going to have to send her flowers. Thank you thank you thank you for my life and for all of its delicious possibilities! :o)

"And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more." (Doctrine and Covenants 78:19)