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!

Wow. I am just so grateful to be an American. I left the voting booth this morning in tears...so grateful to live in a country where I am not arrested, beaten, or killed just for expressing my opinion. I am grateful for inspiration--a few days ago I received personal direction to vote for a candidate that I had decided against. I don't know what it means, but I followed the inspiration and felt good about it--part of why I think I was so emotional. Anyway, on to today's gratitude list...

Thank you for this incredible, beautiful, wonderful day. Thank you for living in this nation and all the opportunities and freedoms it affords. Thank you for my husband. He is just so great--what else can I say? Thank you for bringing us together. Thank you for keeping us together. Thank you that we get along so very well. Thank you for his beautiful, clean, spacious home--and thank you for all the wonderful plans to improve it! It's so exciting! Thank you for modern technology. Thank you for this incredible, wonderful, amazing, awesome business. Thank you for finally "getting" just how simple it is. Thank you for Sue. Thank you for Elisa. Thank you for Susan. Thank you for sooo many blessings I can hardly count them. Oh, thank you for Amy, too, and all the kind people who have responded to my emails. Thank you for the wisdom that making changes in my own life allows me to set the example for others. Thank you for getting that. Thank you for Shannon's enthusiasm this morning. She's so funny. Thank you for all the support and wonderful, positive, enthusiastic people I have surrounding me, encouraging me, uplifting me, sharing with me. I am so very blessed. What could be more wonderful?