{"id":7821,"date":"2019-03-11T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:23:40","slug":"be-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/be-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cGratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.\u201d William Arthur Ward<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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It’s amazing how a daily practice of Gratitude can change your life. Don’t believe me……try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I woke up this morning, tired and feeling grouchy. I probably could have stewed in my misery but I asked myself, “What do I have to be thankful for?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe me, it’s not like angels sang and the heaven’s opened up, and a light shone down and my life was transformed. My first thought was……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man, I am gonna be so thankful when I drop these kids off at school.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yup, thankful for alone time……to really bask in my tiredness and misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were going to be late this morning, I didn’t even really let it phase me. I just embraced the moment. Get ready, without a freak out, without tears. We are going to be late. So let’s eat breakfast, get dressed and get this show on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we did. And as the morning went on, all these little thoughts kept coming to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m so thankful to be alive even if I’m tired.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m thankful that my kids are going to school, even if just for a half day (Jude is dealing with some school\/seperation anxiety and is only doing a few hours, at the moment)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m thankful for a home, even if it a mess.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m thankful for a vehicle so we don’t have to walk.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m SO thankful for Daylight Saving Time because we get more evening sun. (don’t hate. I LOVE it)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m so thankful for coffee, this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m even thankful that we are supposed to get snow tonight because it’s bright and white and not dreary rain.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these Thankful, Positive thoughts snowballed as I got the kids ready and drove to school and dropped them off. It’s like the Gratitude gained momentum and the misery just shrunk until I could no longer feel it wrapped about me like a scarf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still tired. My reality is still the same, but my focus has shifted and that shift brings such an amazing awareness of the good things in life. Today will be a good day. Because I choose it be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you thankful for? I’ d love to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\u201cGratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.\u201d William Arthur Ward It’s amazing how a daily practice of Gratitude can change your life. Don’t believe me……try it. I woke up this morning, tired and feeling grouchy. I probably could have stewed in my misery but … Continue reading “Be Thankful”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Be Thankful #marchtogratitude","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-challenge","category-thankfulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7825,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions\/7825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}