being grateful

Being grateful is difficult if you're always in pain or dealing with thinning hair or strange skin problems from an illness. 


Let's face it, being grateful is difficult without any illness at all. We feel frustrated, passed over or given difficult challenges to live with.


How do we feel grateful and remember to be grateful each and everyday.


Well, I heard something that  I'm "borrowing" because I believe it will work for myself and many others.


Instead of writing down a few things we're grateful for now and putting it somewhere you'll forget about and then find under some bills later.


What if we started a Never Ending Gratitude List. This might be something to keep in a notebook or the journal you don't know what to do with.


I started by writing three things I was grateful for yesterday in a beautiful journal I bought but wrote nothing in it yet.


Today I may only find two things I'm grateful for, or maybe I'll have five things.


If we do this everyday- and, of course we're only human and we might skip a day here and there- then when we're feeling down or ungrateful we have our Never Ending Gratitude List to read and reflect on. 


This might be all we need to feel a little better. It's almost impossible to be grateful and feel sorry for yourself at the same time.


Gratitude keeps us smiling and feeling that everything will work out as it should.


You don't need a fancy journal. A steno pad, a regular notebook, printer paper stapled together will all work for your list. If your creative you can make a beautiful cover for it. But do it, creative or not.


I'm grateful that I get to share this with you. 


peace & love,
sunee

deciding to be happy

Today I am deciding to be happy. Life is still stress-filled for me. In fact this may be one of the most stress-filled times I have ever gone through. The difference is that I finally got it through my head that I missing a lot of joy and fun sitting around as a stressed-out mess.

Now, this change isn't some magical gift bestowed upon me by the happiness gods. It's a little bit of work and a lot of reminding myself of what I have to be grateful for.

I truly believe gratitude is the key. All awful, stressful times, whether due to illness, money troubles, family problems or work problems, have been worked out one way or another, for all of us. I only made the situations worse by sitting in my pool of stress. It's not very comfortable there.

I plan to say thank you often, look at the good that exists and work through life challenges. After all, everyone has difficulties and we would all be a high-strung bunch of negative ninny's if we don't stop and realize how much we have to be grateful and happy about.

I'm deciding to be happy starting now. I hope you'll join me!

peace and love,

sunee

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