What I’m noticing about being in a place of gratitude (which happens only after you’ve been practicing this experiment of recognizing and posting what you are grateful for every day) is that my usual running judgmental commentary is relaxing. Instead of judging what I’m witnessing as bad or inferior…I’m just looking for something in the experience I can be grateful about. This is true whether I’m watching a musical performance, or listening to a speaker, or reading a book or talking with someone, or watching the world go around.  I’m becoming less judgemental…hence, a whole lot happier!

Today, I’m grateful for loving and supportive friends…and the opportunity to be loving and supportive to them.

I’m grateful for the beauty and abundance in nature all around me. 

I’m grateful for those two humorous squirrels who played and chased each other around a tree for at lest 30 minutes.  So entertaining!

I am grateful for my husband whose natural instinct is to just go ahead and take of things that needs taking care of…even those things I don’t realize need taking care of.  He just does it.

I am grateful for the ease with which creative ideas flow through me.

I am grateful for my children’s sense of humor and the ease with which they laugh. They remind me to lighten up.

Today I am grateful for being inside, in a beautiful, warm home by the fire will the rain pours down outside.

I am grateful for the business tips I learned today at the Chamber of Commerce and for the speaker who delivered his message passionately.

I am grateful for by daughter whose eyes sparkle with life and the the infinite amount of love packed into her little self.

I am grateful for my child’s enthusiasm over things I might overlook, “Look Mommy, the raindrops on your car have frozen into ice! How cool!” It wouldn’t be my first response, but her enthusiasm helps me have a different perspective.

I am grateful for antibiotics. Truly a miracle drug.

I am grateful for the guidance and support of my personal coach.

Woo hoo!  I’m so grateful for all of you who have joined this experiment in gratitude and have chosen to take the time to post your gratitudes!  Please let me know as we go along how it’s going.  Have you noticed a shift in your energy? Have you noticed that…just by focusing on and rejoicing about what’s terrific in your life…you are attracting more good?

I just read this morning in Wallace Wattles book,  The Science of Getting Rich, “Our gratitude liberates an energy within us that immediately expands into the formless substance, where it is instantly returned to us in kind.”

Today I am grateful for the customer service person who answered my call on the second ring and cheerfully helped me solve my tech problem in under 5 minutes!

I am grateful for being invited as a guest on a radio show today to talk about nurturing new moms.

I am grateful for making it home safely in a rainstorm.  “I am divinely protected at all times.”

I am so very grateful for the natural healing energy in the body. Our bodies are always working to restore and bring us back into balance. Our natural state is wellbeing. I will focus on this natural state instead of the sore throat and achiness I seem to be experiencing now.

The interesting thing about committing to posting at least one gratitude a day is that it’s making me look for things to be grateful for…knowing I will be posting something that evening. I’m on the lookout for good things to be grateful for.

So today, I am grateful for hands-on, interactive science museums for kids. Really…hours of fun and they’re learning something just by playing. It’s fabulous. I hope every city has one.

I’m also grateful for the color of cardinals. What an amazing red!

Thank you!