Grateful + Attitude = Gratitude

A new year is upon us. A “clean slate” so to speak, or as my friends are saying “Clean Slate in ‘08!” For me, that bears incredible importance, as the last year has been a tough one for me, emotionally, physically, spiritually…so while I’ve been messing about with my various blogs, it dawned on me that a) they were scattered and lacked focus; and b) I wanted to create something that truly mattered. Enter “gratitudes”…

What’s funny is that this idea came to me while I was lying in bed, recovering from a nasty bout of the flu, a bug that had kept me out of school for four days. What did I have to be grateful for? A whole lot…first of all, that I was on the upswing! I wasn’t dead, not even close to it (though I’d asked various people to help me out with that on the first day or two of the illness!), and I was going to be just fine.So often I find myself complaining about things that either aren’t worth my energy, or that just need a different perspective to adjust them, or that aren’t going to change anyway.

So my goal for this year, for this blog, is to post something positive every day, that reflects something for which I’m grateful, either in the form of text, photos, video, or some combination of the three.

We’ll see what happens…and please, feel free to share your own gratitudes. I have a feeling this could be contagious – but in a good way  

~ by heavdog on January 18, 2008.