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January Gratitude List: Part 3

The air was a crisp 60-ish degrees and the sun glistened on the ocean’s surface, creating a low yellow fire road directly back to it. We lay a bright red and blue beach towel across the grass on the bluff and sit in silence as life goes on around us. A man throws a ball [...]

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January Gratitude List: Part 2

I lay before me a pound of gratitude so that I might find the ounce worth measuring.

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The Kick Inside (or January Gratitude List)

In 2009 I was challenged to create gratitude lists each day leading up to Thanksgiving Day, starting November 11th. Each morning I sat and contemplated what I was grateful for, and voila, the lists were born. I ended up creating 14 lists, each of them 39 strong. Livin’ with my eyes closed, goin’ day to [...]

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What Can “G” Do For You?

I went back through my 14 lists of gratitude and found that I had some favorites.

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Gratitude List: Day 14

November 30. Is this the last day of gratitude? No; I’m still alive. And as long as I’m alive, I will be grateful. I see now that gratitude is inherent in all of us. It’s just less visible than the blood in our veins. And about that blood in our veins, we know it’s there [...]

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Gratitude List: Day 13

As I create list after list after list, I realize just how many things and people and ideas and actions I’m grateful for. I’m coming to realize more and more that being grateful isn’t about being selfish and listing things and people I like, but about having an honest eye about my life and seeing [...]

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Gratitude List: Day 12

I constantly find myself in analyze mode. I’m always looking to grow, looking to learn, digging deeper into that space of authenticity that is me at my core. And sometimes when I do that, I can forget about the little things that make the big things seem that much better. Is it the little things [...]