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Gratitude Monday: What are you grateful for?

March 26, 2012 Written by Curt Rosengren

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It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to put my gratitude hat on, and I’ll hope you’ll join me! Each Monday, in a nod to what a positive impact gratitude can have on our lives, I focus a post on what I’m grateful for.

It’s too easy to get lost in both the challenges and busyness of life, and forget how much we really have to be grateful for. Even when things are going completely to hell, we can almost always find reasons for gratitude if we step back and look for them.

I had a spectacularly hard week last week. Rather than fluidly living my life, I was busy imploding. And I must confess, I kinda forgot the whole gratitude dealio.

I’m not fully past the challenges I was encountering at the time, but I have managed to find more solid ground to stand on. And from this vantage point, it’s doubly obvious how important it is to focus on what I’m thankful for rather than on what sucks. So on to the gratitude!

My parents just left this morning after coming up from Oregon for the weekend. Since I’ve spent so much time with them the last couple days, my gratitude for them is up front and center. I’m grateful that I hit the parental lottery and was lucky enough to be raised by them, and I’m grateful that I enjoy them so much as an adult. I’m grateful that they live close enough to visit easily (4 hours away), though I wish they lived a little closer.

Some other things I’m grateful for today:

  • Discovery Park (a several hundred acre wooded park about ten minutes from me)
  • Trees
  • Friends who believe in me
  • Amma
  • People who love the Ripple Revolution idea
  • Local farmers
  • People who are as inspired as I am by the idea of making the world a better place
  • People who inspire me by their efforts to make the world a better place

How about you? What are you grateful for today? Share three things in the comments (more if you can’t stop yourself). Go on. I dare you! And if you have a blog, why not add your own Gratitude Monday post? It’s not a bad way to start the week.

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Introducing Gratitude Monday: What are you grateful for?

March 12, 2012 Written by Curt Rosengren


Welcome to the premiere post of Gratitude Monday! It’s something new inspired by the power of gratitude to make a positive impact on our own lives, and the desire readers have been expressing to connect with other Ripple Revolutionaries – people who really care about making a difference, and who believe it can be a joy ride along the way.

Each Gratitude Monday, I’m going to post some things I’m grateful for. It might be just a short laundry list, or it might be a full-on description. And then I would love for you to chime in.

I invite you to do any or all of these…

  • Share what you’re grateful for in the comments (it could be as easy as a laundry list of three things – make it easy on yourself!).
  • Read what others are grateful for.
  • Share your thoughts.
  • Come back next week and do it again.

So on to my Gratitude List…

  • I’m grateful that I have friends who will reach out to me when I’m isolating in my cave and pull me out.
  • I’m grateful for that first cup of coffee in the morning.
  • I’m grateful for the opportunity to spend time every morning with an inspiring book.
  • I’m grateful for the scanner my sister and her husband gave me so I could scan the hundreds of family history photos I’ve accumulated over the years.
  • I’m grateful that I have friends who see me as I really am, not how I sometimes think I am.
  • I’m grateful that I live somewhere (Seattle) with so much natural beauty.
  • I’m grateful for the opportunity to see other people’s lives change for the better as a result of their interactions with me.

How about you? What are you grateful for? Please share – I would love to know!

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