Thanksgiving is a day of reflection for me, and I was thinking about all the things I’m thankful for. Since Thanksgiving is on the 26th this year, I decided I’d share 26 things I’m thankful for.
So, in no particular order, I’m thankful that…
- I don’t have to work today.
- my work usually doesn’t feel like work.
- I’m not overseas serving my country during the holidays.
- others are willing to serve their country during the holidays.
- I appreciate the peace and freedom I have since I served my country during the holidays.*
- we have an administration that’s at least trying to advance human rights at home and abroad.
- we don’t have to worry that we won’t be able to pay our bills next month.
- enough people find what I do valuable and support my being able to do it.
- I’ve gone from one client to being booked weeks in advance in a year’s time.
- I matured at such a ripe time to be a creative entrepreneur.
- Angela trusts our capabilities enough for us to take some chances on ourselves.
- Angela is compassionate, creative, brilliant, and full enough of her own ideas, dreams, and capabilities that we can be interdependent.
- Angela and I share common values and compatible visions of the good life.
- our home is peaceful, warm, and conducive to learning, growing, and creating.
- we are mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy.
- our families believe in and support us.
- the families of friends took me in and showed me honest ways of making a comfortable living.
- I grew up poor enough to learn to be resourceful and scrappy.
- my life is full of rich opportunities that didn’t exist last year.
- I’ve developed life-changing friendships and bonds with people built on trust and synergy.
- I believe in and love myself more than I ever have before.
- I see a world of hope and possibilities instead of constraints and necessities.
- I’ve fallen down enough times to know how to stand up quickly.
- 3,000 years of the world’s traditions and wisdom is available to us in seconds.
- there’s more to the universe than we’ll ever know.
- I have a few thousand people to share my thanks with.
Thank you – and have a happy holiday season!
*I’m not saying that you can’t appreciate peace and freedom without serving – rather, it took that experience for me to really feel it in my bones.
Those are really great things to be thankful for. I especially love #19. Thanks for sharing!
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Down here in the land of Australia we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving obviously, but even so I’d just thought I’d say I’m thankful I have the ability to write about things I love. Even if it’s not supporting me financially (yet). 🙂
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Great list and I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. I am going to share an appropriate quote that I have been sharing with all my friends today.
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” – The Buddha
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cool list Charlie 🙂
also love the quote Steven posted, thanks 😀
Charlie – wonderful list. Know how thankful I am for everything you’ve taught me – can’t wait keep learning together. I hope you and Angela had a wonderful holiday!
.-= Laura Cococcia | The Journal of Cultural Conversation´s last blog ..Back To School: Spending Thanksgiving With The Children of Machu Picchu =-.
For you Charlie. All the time apart and very different paths, but you have enriched my life at critical times.
-Ray
I found your site from http://ittybiz.com/free-guest-posts/#comment-12867. I really like your list of things to be thankful for. It is a list that will stand the test of time. I wish you the best in your business.
Thanks
Sam
http://ChartingDreams.com
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Great post – and I’m thankful for it!
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My favorite is #21 I believe in and love myself more than I ever have before.
This is maybe the most important reason people are successful. They trust their choices.
I’ve grown to love myself and the best part is my ego isn’t so strong. I can take criticism without getting all angry. This took a long time to cultivate, but it’s a wonderful skill.
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for your site. I’ve learned a lot and applied it to my life.
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