Having spent the last two months under the care of doctors, nurses, and therapists at Cottage Hospital, Sansum Clinic, numerous pharmacists, and the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, I can’t help but feel an enormous sense of gratitude for the health-care workers in our community. Now that we are in the traditional month of thanksgiving, I invited a variety of people to join me in sharing one thought about something for which they, too, were grateful this year.
How Gratitude Can Change Your Life
Every morning when I wake up, which is almost always at some point between 3 and 4 in the morning, the first think I do is sit down in front of my computer and write out my morning Gratitude List. It always starts with “Today I am grateful for … .” But the funny thing? Each morning, I realize just how much I do have to be grateful for.
In the words of Robert Kanaat, “What I’ve come to realize is that no matter the state or quality of our lives, whatever outcomes we’ve produced, goals we’ve reached (or failed to reach), what decisions we’ve made, and where we’ve ended up has almost everything to do with focus. While some things might be out of our control, much of what happens based on our thoughts, emotions and behaviors, are largely a conditional response to our focus.