Love These Little Tokens of Encouragement

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The Next Generation of Do Good’ers

One of the reasons I have been slam dunking this Gratitude Challenge:) is because it’s a topic that has been pretty central to our lives the past few months.  Let’s face it, my kids are going to grow up spoiled rotten – too much attention, too much resources, too much stuff.  Am I bitter because [...]

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Oh the Sweet Taste of Gratitude

My formidable Challenger had tasked me with focusing on one of my 5 senses for the day and discovering the many gifts through that one portal. I am a highly visible person – I’ll sit in meetings where I have no idea what is going on until someone writes it down or draws it out [...]

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Badge of Honor Earned

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Day 7 – Video Post

Record how these past 2 weeks have affected my life.  Many have told me that I have a face for radio, so I’m bending the rules a bit here and attaching one of my all time favorite videos – of my kids of course.  Cooper just turned 2 and Emily is 4 here… Click here [...]

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Day 5 – I Couldn’t Live Without…

Something I appreciate about what I have.  This could be broadly interpreted, and in theme with the Challenge, I’ll be talking about something near and dear to my heart.  Sure I could talk about my most cherished things in life – family, work, health, yada yada.  But what I want to talk about is a [...]

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Day 4 – Finding the Silver Lining

Think of negatives – that should be easy.  Find ways to be positive about those negatives – not so easy but useful My physical journal will capture full thoughts on the things I find to be “negative” or “problematic” in my life.  For this forum, I’ll focus on a subset of negatives and the silver [...]

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Day 3 – I Hope I Don’t Cry Tomorrow

Something I feel grateful for in my life today – today’s homework.  Where do I start…  After yesterday’s exercise of 26+ grateful things, which do I choose today?  Pretty easy – tonight, my thoughts are dominated by the idea of Emily starting kindergarten tomorrow. Sure, she’s been in preschool for the last couple of years [...]

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Day 2 – Alphabet Inventory of Thanks

I really like today’s challenge – use the alphabet to make an inventory of things I’m grateful for (I’ll write into my journal but wanted to blog about it because I’m an extra credit kinda guy…).  I wish I had the 3 hours to come up with a super witty list, but it’s 11:15 pm [...]

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Staycation – Thumbs Up!

So I had some time to reflect last week – not much but probably more than usual.  Last summer, our family took an amazing trip to Hawaii – growing up in a small, landlocked, flat as bread state, the idea of spending an entire week in Maui would have been a pretty far fetched daydream.  [...]

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