Since November, I’ve been adding three daily gratitudes to a Slack channel at work. I haven’t done it every day but here are some of the things I’ve been grateful for in the last 6 months.
Nov 2019
- The smell of warm spiced tea on a fall day
- Kind, generous people at work who have great ideas to spread the goodness
- New connections and potential collaboration opportunities
5 Months Ago
- A new laptop for work, with time and space to set it up
- Good strong black coffee
- Music to help me find my groove today
- Shouts of glee from my children when I walk in the door after being at work
- Slow mornings to get ready, read the news, and take my time
- Brillant co-worker to collaborate with
4 Months Ago
- Neighbors who become friends which becomes community
- Good, deep sleep
- Great places right outside my door to walk in the woods
- Good conversation and the chance for mini-mentor sessions
- A peacock blue pen
- Deep long laughter with co-workers
- Fridays
- First Aid Kit (the band)
- White wine that tastes like GrapefruitAlso sent to the channel
- Well, if I’m grateful for Friday, I need to appreciate the Mondays too.
- Breaking a long fast
- Comfortable and cute red shoes
3 Months Ago
- New office, new job
- Great memories with previous co-workers
- Looking forward to getting to know new people
- Green Tea! Hard to get back into a routine
- Good music (again, finding that rhythm)
- Blank pages in my new journal
- Catching up with old friends, and hearing about all the new ideas.
- The kids going back to school (longest break ever)
- Brightly, leafy, green veggies
- Having green tea that my husband remembered to get for me.
- Funny Quotes “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” – Steven Wright
- New perspectives (I moved my desk, to get a different vantage)
- Bob Dylan on a Foggy Morning
- Finding old notes to myself that remind me of myself.
- Sore muscles after trying a new class
- Remembering to be grateful (and not beating myself up for forgetting)
- On that same note, the ability to restart, because you can’t fail if you don’t give up
- New hiking boots (all of theme here)
- Learning how to choose what I pay attention to and extract meaning from
- Crisp cool mornings
- Working with kind, connected, thinking people
- My children’s wit and curiosity as they interact with the world
- Dancing in the car on the way to work on a Monday morning
- Sunshine on a cool winter morning
- Work that keeps gets me into a flow state!
- Being able to humbly exhibit my awesomeness
- Afternoon pick me ups
2 Months Ago
- Fridays & Hot Toddies (for medicinal purpose of course)
- New (work) book recommendations
- Getting perspective on the bigger picture
- Reminders in slack
- Shared understanding among my peers
- Seeing the light go on for people I’m coaching (being useful to people)
- My father-in-law is visiting this week.
- Productive but relaxing Fridays
- Spinach – My lunch was delicious
- Cat’s (Felinetines day)
- Delicious food at a new restaurant with good friends
- Building partnerships and great work with cool people
- Naps (even though I can not take one now)
- My Bullet Journal
- New ways to look at a problem (visualizing a problem with pictures)
1 Week Ago
- Toast with jelly
- My son singing Peanut, Peanut Butter & Jelly while making said toast
- The opportunity to slow down and focus on what’s most important
- Committing to something that will nourish my creativity (even though it’s scary)
- Getting into a new routine
- Rainy rainy days that make new plants grow
- Early mornings for creative writing
- Brightly dyed eggs for breakfast
- Chilly morning with a warm mug of coffee