6-11-10 grateful for today

1. The ability, space and time to start this daily blog again
2. abundant opportunities in each moment
3. a good night's sleep
4. my adorable dog
5. my car running well
6. loving myself
7. a king size bed
8. FRIDAY
9. my creative talents and abilities
10. unconditional love.

I'm back doing my grateful blog. I was going to put on my list that I was grateful to not have the Census job any more. And I thought how strange to be grateful for something that was no longer there. If something is no longer in my life, what has come into my life? So, I'm grateful for space and time for creative self-expression. It's like putting on my list, that I'm grateful for NOT having a cold. Which would mean that I'm focused on the cold and will most likely contract one. On the flip side, if I don't have a cold, I have health. So it is much better to be grateful for what I have, my health. Not what I don't have. Our culture here in America is a bit twisted as we are conditioned and taught how to not see what we have, only what we don't have. We are taught to judge our lives in what we don't have as compared to others. When I am doing this grateful exercise, it helps me to see what I have and accept it without judgement or comparison to somebody else. When I am accepting and grateful for what I have, an amazing thing happens and I am open to what comes into my life.

For the past month, I have not been following this practice. I chose to take on a second job of the Census work and I chose to have my spare time eaten up with working that job. I learned that I really lost the grace of being grateful. I had a hard time coming up with 10 things, or even 5 things that I was grateful for. I didn't allow myself the time to sit and think of 10 things to be grateful for. I resigned from the Census because I learned about myself that I need space and time for creative self expression.

I love myself and my life.