Must We?

Must we, again, speak of gratitude? It seems so obligatory at this time of year. It’s the season to count your blessings. 

 

Really? There’s a “season” for that? 

I guess I kind of feel like I’d be missing out on a lot of life if I weren’t counting my blessings every single day. 

 

Here’s a quick test – look around where you’re sitting as you read this. Find ten things right now that you can say you’re grateful for. Then say it out loud!

I’m grateful for my water glasses. I’m grateful for the water in them. I’m grateful for the keyboard I’m using to type this. I’m grateful for you, the reader, who dares to ponder some of the weekly insights that come your way. I’m grateful for snacks (okay, I love snacks, darn it). I’m grateful for the pile of reading on my desk that’s so tall, I can’t see the bottom corner of my second monitor. (We’ll talk about tolerances in another blog post.) I’m grateful for my second monitor. I’m grateful for my family. I’m grateful for my friends. I’m grateful for my clients. I’m super grateful for my massage therapist who can dig in and get out knots I didn’t know I had. And I’m grateful for my mentors and coaches (Yes, even great coaches have coaches to give an outside perspective. I wouldn’t actually trust a coach who didn’t have a coach.)

 

I think that’s twelve. It’s an exercise that’s harder than it looks. I strongly urge you to try it.

 

In the U.S. we’re preparing for Thanksgiving tomorrow. 

Some will participate. Some will not.

 

And for me, I go back to the fact that it’s not about the holiday. 

Besides, the mythology of the Thanksgiving gathering, Plymouth rock, and all that… it’s not real. (In fact, for many Native American tribes, tomorrow marks a National Day of Mourning. But that’s a story you won’t get in elementary school.)

 

And I digress. Some of what we were taught early on isn’t real. 

 

But gratitude is!

 

Gratitude is never about any particular day. It’s about how you choose to live your life, starting now.

 

Can you see the small stuff for which you can be grateful? That makes the bigger stuff so much easier to acknowledge.

 

I really AM grateful for you and I look forward to being of service to you in the years to come.

 

Keep making your magic!

 

= Wayne = 

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