Attitude of Gratitude

The best part of Thanksgiving is that it has traditionally been a non-commercial holiday.  Well, until stores decided to open this year but I digress.  Thanksgiving is a day when you don't have to do anything but spend time eating and watching the parade and football with those we care about.  It is always nice to take a moment though to think about all that you have to be thankful for this year.  I am always thankful for my fabulous friends and family and wonderful readers.  I've received so many wonderful emails lately and it is always nice to know that all the hard work that goes into the blog is appreciated by others. 

The last chapter of the book Write It Down, Make It Happen is entitled Giving Thanks.  "When you remember to say thanks, when you live your life in a spirit of gratefulness, life will present you with even more things for which to be grateful."  Just a little something to think about on this day of Thanksgiving. 

Photo from Martha Stewart

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"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie

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Merry Christmas, Keep Your Expectaions Low, And Vent On Your Blog

by  AmoLaZucca  on YouTube 

The title of this post might have been

"What A Drag Clean Up Is After Christmas",

until I fell upon the first photo in this post.

It had a link to the song which I have put right under her picture.

The music is beautiful....

and the message slapped me in the face.

I needed it.

I can get to feeling sorry for myself.

I can bitch and moan.

And then something or someone reminds me.... 

how fortunate some of us are to have a turkey to cook for our families.

I have had some pretty crummy Holiday Seasons....

but it is my nature to.

The holidays get me to feeling 'raw'.

Yesterday I was driving with my top down,

it was a gorgeous day in sunny Boca Raton

 and I just started crying.

I am no Hallmark Card kid from a Hallmark Card family.

(Who is?)

It was something 

related to my expectations.

 It was a little thing that always happens

between my daughter and myself.

It is always the same old thing....

So why do I continually

expect a different outcome

the next time the same issue comes up?

There is a saying;

The definition of insanity is

 "Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results"

But I do.

I think I keep hoping things will be different.

I need to keep the focus on myself.

On my issues, on who I am, and what my actions are.

I need to lower my expectations.

And just love her....and let her go.

I don't mean let her go like

I don't care what she does or who she is,

but accept her for who she is.

(And lower my expectations)

Usually when I am having any kind of problem

it stems from how, and from where I am viewing the issue.

There are more people in this country

that are homeless and losing their homes than will be 'made public.'

They are not dealing with cleaning up after xmas.

They are not putting away all the precious xmas ornaments.

They are not dealing with all the garbage

from the xmas packages being gleefully torn open

last night or this morning.

They had no xmas dinner to clean up,

no xmas morning breakfast dishes to load in the dishwasher.

They gave their children nothing.

Maybe they found something in the garbage

that they cleaned up and wrapped in a shopping bag for their child.

Or if they were lucky....

they got something from " Toys For Tots'.

Think about that.

I need to.

I was able to do what I needed to this year.

I need to have gratitude.

It is so easy to forget what we do have in our lives.

Even if we do have 

THE LUXURY of cleaning up after xmas.

Bye Bye Christmas.

Until Next Year.....

Love you guys....and you know who you are XXX's

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"A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility." C.S. Lewis

When you read this I will be in training at a new job. It's not really a 'new' job , I worked for this company briefly 4 years ago.

My town, which by most peoples standards is a very pretty town, has a problem. It's the store fronts. They are emptying out....quickly. The downtown area , on the main street is not good.

As you might imagine, clients are not chasing me down the street. Nor are they throwing money at me for this spectacularly brilliant design brain of mine. I am going to work for a big family furniture business in South Florida. They have a lovely design department too.

So..........if it's Monday, I am in training.

Training to be a better me.... Am I humble? Humility allows me to remain teachable.

I am not the 'boss of me' anymore.

Was I ever ? Even when I worked for myself....I still really worked for who ever was writing the checks for the furniture and fabrics.

I have promised myself that I will have an attitude of gratitude for this opportunity. A good attitude is the only thing that will make me a success.

I think a lot of what went wrong with this country (myself included) is a lack of gratitude for what we had. We fell into the trap of thinking what we had was not enough. There was always something bigger and better right around the corner. We all know (especially a designer)...that bigger is not always better.

Renee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her BLOG.....
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