An Attitude Of Gratitude - Results Of the Daily Gratitude Poll

Thanks to everyone who has been participating in the Daily Gratitude Poll! Here's what people have been grateful for over the past several weeks:

• Mended fences and the warm fuzzy feeling that goes with it
• Every wonderful waking moment
• Having enough random items in the kitchen to pull together a meal without an extra trip to the store
• Someone appreciates me as a fellow Long Beach tweeter (thanks!)
• Rain
• Gorgeous shorts weather
• The exterminator that's getting rid of the bees living in someone's basketball hoop
• Getting a $20 gift card from Trader Joe's for bringing in your own bags     
• Downtime to recharge
• All the life lessons someone's dad and grandpa taught her
• Subway putting their crab seafood sandwich back on the menu
• Enjoyed another day on this earth
• All the great eateries in Long Beach     
• The play fort in someone's backyard is finished with only one trip to urgent care
• Waking up before the alarm
• Tingly muscles after a good workout
• Someone waking up to see her baby's beautiful "sleeping" face, so she can study his lashes, little lips, cheeks, velvety skin and drink it all in before he wakes up and turns into the "energizer bunny"
• Social networking sites that help someone connect with family overseas     
• Free movies on the beach series starting back up again in Long Beach
• To be in the land of the free
• Having just enough jelly left to make a killer p,b, and j sandwich
• Almost done painting
• The splendor of the ocean
• "Tunes and Tales" at the library
• The "replace all" tool in Microsoft Word     
• Getting to sleep in a real bed in the bedroom again after painting all week and having to sleep on a tiny futon in the living room
• Time spent with good friends, and connecting with long lost ones
• Receiving a completely random act of kindness from a stranger     
• Seeing a family of hummingbirds outside the window     
• Iced tea     
• Leftovers from dinner making a perfect lunch the next day
• Running out of dog food and making it to the pet store five minutes before it closed
• Having a good friend come to visit
• The boat being fixed just in time for Junior Olympics
• Making a decent dent in a pile of laundry
• Feeling inspired to get some paperwork done
• Finding a missing traction kit, which is really helping with someone's stiff neck     
• Being inspired to clear off the desk
• Getting some long-overdue business done
• New clients
• Some folks are grateful that I'm doing this gratitude poll (you're welcome!) and that they've connected with me to participate     
• Facebook     
• The Good Samaritan who turned in someone's lost prescription glasses to the Lost and Found at the Science Center     
• On a similar note, another Good Samaritan who found someone's camera that was left on a rock while backpacking in Yosemite and turned it in at a ranger station, which was found by the owner when she coincidentally checked that particular ranger station even though it was miles from the trail head      
• Someone's kitty curling up on her leg and giving her toe a love bite
• Cool breeze coming through the window
• Someone's wife and great grand children and just to be alive
• Living so close to Cafe Piccolo
• Someone following his bliss
• Hot fudge sundaes, with nuts
• People who take things seriously and have fun at the same time (I'm pleased to say the author of this contribution included me in this group...aw, thanks!)
• Free kids movies in the air-conditioned theater
• Someone's clients leaving a bag of home-grown tomatoes as a little bonus
• Someone's husband who (among other things) prepares such nourishing food for her family

Check back soon to get your next gratitude fix, or if you'd like to participate, connect with me on Facebook or Twitter and join in on the poll, and help shift consciousness from that of lack to that of abundance! If you would like to have your name mentioned in the results, please let me know, otherwise, all results will be reported anonymously. And thanks again to our contributors!

  

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An Attitude Of Gratitude - Results Of the Daily Gratitude Poll

Thanks to everyone who has been participating in the Daily Gratitude Poll! Here's what people have been grateful for over the past two weeks:

• Brief but very quality years spent with someone's mom before she passed away
• A free cinnamon roll from the bakery lady at the grocery store, and a free taquito thrown into a Mexican take-out order
• Moonlight shimmering on the ocean
• Life being such a fabulous experience
• Someone's husband passing the bar and being sworn in to practice law
• Education about commercial real estate 
• Songbirds that wake someone up in the morning
• Laughing so hard that their sides ache
• An awesome team of mentors and business associates
• Runner's high
• Chocolate
• Leftovers
• A good hair day two days in a row
• Dishwashers
• Friday (when it was Friday)
• Not falling flat on someone's face after tripping on a crack
• To be alive

Check back soon to get your next gratitude fix, or if you'd like to participate, connect with me on Facebook or Twitter and join in on the poll, and help shift consciousness from that of lack to that of abundance! If you would like to have your name mentioned in the results, please let me know, otherwise, all results will be reported anonymously. And thanks again to our contributors!

  

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A few months back, however, Long Beach made some great improvements for our transportation budgets! The new Long Beach bus passes are now available any time, and they are not dated. So, when you buy one, you activate it when you first use it by swiping the magnetic stripe (also a new feature), and it is then stamped with an expiration date 30 days later. They also now have 5-day passes available, perfect if you you have out-of-town visitors and don't want to buy them a full month's pass, or if your public transportation needs are variable. Sweet! Thanks Long Beach Transit!

An Attitude Of Gratitude - Results Of the Daily Gratitude Poll

I have started a daily gratitude poll encouraging my Facebook and Twitter contacts to share one thing that they are grateful for each day. I will start posting the results on this blog periodically, in order to help promote an attitude of gratitude and a shift of consciousness from that of lack to that of abundance. I find that just focusing on one thing I am grateful for each day (and hopefully several) changes the whole mood of my day for the better, and I love to read what other people share, as it compounds the good feelings and seems to put things into proper perspective each day. I hope you feel the same effect as you read these results each week and that you will be inspired to do the same! So, the results of this past week's gratitude poll are:

• Sunshine
• Glucosamine that is helping someone's dog move easier
• Someone's beautiful babies
• Having everything within walking, biking, or bus distance from home
• Spanx
• Making it to a meeting despite sleeping through an alarm
• Kids with great imaginations!
• Electricity, because someone didn't have it one day last week 
• Someone's daughter
• Family and friends and the ability to help others

Check back soon to get your next gratitude fix, or if you'd like to participate, connect with me on Facebook or Twitter and join in on the poll! If you would like to have your name mentioned in the results, please let me know, otherwise, all results will be reported anonymously. And thanks to our contributors!

  

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Two Glasses Of Wine

Some food (and drink) for thought...

Two Glasses Of Wine

A professor stood before his philosophy class with some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large, empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two glasses of wine from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things: your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions. Things that if everything else was lost and only these remained, your life would still be full."

"The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "There is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes in life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you."

"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. Go for one more run down the ski slope. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired as to what the wine represented. The professor smiled, "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of glasses of wine with a friend."

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