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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