This Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US, so family travel plans are well underway for us.
I thought I was a pretty thankful person, so the idea of posting a month's worth of Twitter updates and Facebook statuses describing things I was thankful for seemed like an easy way to spread the celebration over the whole month.
After 23 days of the month, I'm at about a 20% success rate. If 50% is failing, 20% is what? dismal? I guess this is a good reminder to me that maintaining an attitude of gratitude is difficult, even when I know that I have many many things to be thankful for. It's so much easier to focus on things that need to get done or are wrong. Of course I need to focus on those things to be productive, but I also need to focus on gratitude to be peaceful.
Whether you're celebrating Thanksgiving this week or not, here's hoping we can all stop for a minute and think of a few more things we're grateful for today.
I thought I was a pretty thankful person, so the idea of posting a month's worth of Twitter updates and Facebook statuses describing things I was thankful for seemed like an easy way to spread the celebration over the whole month.
After 23 days of the month, I'm at about a 20% success rate. If 50% is failing, 20% is what? dismal? I guess this is a good reminder to me that maintaining an attitude of gratitude is difficult, even when I know that I have many many things to be thankful for. It's so much easier to focus on things that need to get done or are wrong. Of course I need to focus on those things to be productive, but I also need to focus on gratitude to be peaceful.
Whether you're celebrating Thanksgiving this week or not, here's hoping we can all stop for a minute and think of a few more things we're grateful for today.
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