If I only had one attitude to pick from, one value to treasure, one concept to choose from, then without a doubt, I’d choose Gratitude.
Gratitude is an attitude that I picked up on some 9 odd years ago, although, I heard about it’s value for so many years before that. I incorporated it into my life and I know that it has made the world of difference to how I view life.
Today, I’m attempting to write a ‘99 love list‘ but turning it into a ’99 Gratitude list’ instead.
99 Things I Am Grateful For
In no order of importance, things past and present I’m grateful for –
- Life
- A body
- Love from my parents
- Two protective and caring brothers
- A loving extended family
- 50 plus years of health
- 50 life lessons I’ve learned
- Happy childhood memories
- A safe childhood
- Opportunities to study in excellent schools
- Introduction to reading at an early age
- Music
- Chances to act and sing in public
- Good jobs
- Supportive bosses
- Friendly colleagues
- Friends
- Laughter
- Flowers
- Beaches
- Sunsets
- Trees
- Access to clean water
- Hot baths
- Cold showers
- Electricity
- Warm clothes
- A safe place to live in
- A supportive husband
- The joy of togetherness
- Financial security
- The internet
- Blogging
- A desire to keep learning
- Access to medical facilities
- Telephones
- Cooking gas
- Washing machine
- Vegetables
- Fruit
- Cooking skills
- Takeaway food to add to variety
- Good meals
- Dogs and their love
- Ability to help the less fortunate
- Transport
- Books
- My Kindles
- Blogging connections
- Movies
- Inspiration that’s all around
- Fountain pens
- Notebooks
- Interesting conversations
- Dog sitters
- Holidays
- Tea
- Coffee
- Chocolate
- Massages
- Scented soaps
- Essential oils
- Incense and joss sticks
- Faith in God
- Writing
- Mentors
- Inspirational people
- Feelings
- Thoughts
- Imagination
- Polite people
- Kindness
- People who irritate me
- Painful situations
- Gifts
- Surprises
- A bed
- My own space to work in
- Working from home
- Bubble wrap and cello tape – making life easier!
- Discounts
- Online shopping
- Training skills
- Living in a democratic country
- Freedom
- Walks
- House help
- Public servants
- Birds
- Intuition
- Personal space
- A good memory
- Letting go of the past
- Photographs
- Comedy shows
- Things I learn every day
- Plenty of spare time
- Comfortable clothes
- You, my dear readers!
I’ve been slacking off on my #everydaygratitude posts, so today I did a combination with Finish The Sentence Friday and Friday Reflections.
The hosts are Kristi and this week’s sentence-thinker-upper Deirdre Conran. The prompt : If I only had…..
Also joining Lizzi Lewis and gang for Ten Things of Thankful.
Also, happy to announce that Sanch and Write Tribe are now hosting a weekly feature, Friday Reflections, passed on to us by Janine and Mackenzie. Do join us.
Wow! Such a lot of thought went into this lovely and imaginative list. Well done. I grinned when I read the “washing machine” reference. You reminded me of the conversation I had on the soccer pitch with one of the player’s Italian grandfathers. A mother and I were nattering on about how much work awaited us at home once the game was over. He looked at us and said “Yes, but think how much more work you’d have if you didn’t have a washing machine. Imagine going home now and lugging the dirty clothes down to the river …” Stopped us cold. How very true.
Thanks, Kelly.
The Italian gentleman was right! 🙂
I have lived in India my whole life. It’s hard for my generation to take for granted washing machines and whole lot of other conveniences since we didn’t have them growing up.
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What an important and lovely reminder on being grateful. I love that you included having a body. At first I giggled but then I really started to think about the incredible gift of life and physically navigating this world and yes, yes, I’m very grateful to have a body as well. I’ll treat it a little more gently today. <3
I actually came back from down the line to add that, although the list in not in order of importance. For me, it was a reminder of one of the things I take for granted!
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Yes, yes! Thank you for reminding me I should be grateful of so many of the same things. I’m a cat person, though. I just inserted “cat” for “dog” and it still works. 🙂
I’m still learning to like cats..from afar, Katy. But I can see the appeal they have. What would we be without our pets?
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That’s a great list. It shouldn’t be hard to think of 99 things to be grateful for but it seems like it would be a challenge to broaden your mind to complete the list because we take so many of these things for granted. Many of these be mine as well – even bubble wrap! This would be a great list for kids because they take a lot of granted too and don’t know to be grateful something as simple as a bed.
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Wow! such a wonderful list to keep one grounded 🙂
Lovely post, Corinne
Glad you liked it, Ruchira.
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So many wonderful thoughts here Corinne. I am thankful daily for all of our modern conveniences and I always think of my ancestors when I’m doing the most mundane, everyday things, like laundry, cooking, dishes, turning on the faucet.. So much of what we have would have made their lives so much easier.. I am thankful and grateful.
What a wonderful, inspiring list! and you are so right, we often take these for granted. Thank you for reminding me.
This is great. I think gratitude is so important, and so many people focus on what’s going wrong in life. There are so many blessings we all have, and I believe the more we focus on things to be grateful for, the more things we get to be grateful for.
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What a wonderful, uplifting list. I love the public servant one. That one jumped out at me. This is really a great thing to–making a gratitude list. I’ve made lists of top-ten, but not 99! You’ve inspired me to give it a try for my next free write. Have a great day Corinne.
One more to make it 100….you!!
Ah, you noticed? 😉
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We have a lot of overlap. Two loving parents, 50+ years of health, extended family, chocolate, imagination, thoughts, faith.m What a great list!
So good to know, May.
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Coffee for sure! 🙂 And of course, a lot of the other things you’ve mentioned.
As a good South Indian girl, how can coffee not be on your list! 😉
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You sure have a lot to be thankful for! As we all do 🙂 I think I could say the same for about 60 of the things you listed. I think what I’m most thankful for boils down to my cats and my boyfriend (but don’t make me choose!)
You’re welcome to be grateful for both, Aaliyah! 😉
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What an incredible list! There are just so many things to be grateful for in this world, and I think it’s awesome that you put together a great reminder for days that aren’t always as fulfilling. I definitely need to do something similar as a reminder on those days. Thanks for sharing 🙂
You’re so right. It’s a good reminder to come back to on days when I feel low. Thanks for visiting. Would love to read your list when it’s up.
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What a great gratitude list! I’ll add to it: this blog. I enjoy your positive posts. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Ah! Thanks, Rica.
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Nice work you overachiever, you! So many items on your list would be on mine, too. From comedy shows to financial security, we seem to have lots of similar thankfuls.
Nice to know that, Christine. I’ve seen a list of 300, now that’s an over achiever! 😉
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..Discovering What I Believe #MondayMusings
Wow!
And I can’t even come up with a list of 10! It’s so hard sometimes.
Good for you. This is a fantastic list of things to be thankful for. It’s always the little things that you don’t think about too. Thank you for sharing them.
Once you start, you can go on, Kimberly. Thanks for stopping by.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..Discovering What I Believe #MondayMusings
Making a gratitude list cheers me up and I wonder at the immense amount of blessings that I already have in my life. Let us all be thankful and bring harmony to this world.
Yes, I do believe gratitude lists make us take stock of our blessings and cause us to grumble less.
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..Happily Imperfect #MondayMusings #1000Speak
Love how you combined this post with the prompts.
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Love also how you did 99 instead of 100.
Mostly I loved the ones about family, but those about nature, writing, and all the things (luxuries) we are lucky t have were wonderful too.
I especially focused on the one about a mentor and the following one on inspiration, as I have just recently found myself a writing mentor.
You capture so much all in this one post. Nicely done.
Thanks, Kerry. I would love to hear more about your mentor.
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This is such a wonderful list, Corrine.. What strikes is that it’s the little things in life that we take for granted which makes life beautiful and it should hurt us to stop and be thankful for those every once in a while..And happy that you are hosting friday reflections as well 🙂
Always the little things, Nabanita. 🙂
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What a wonderful list and idea! I love this! Such a great way to reflect on the positive things in life!
Thanks, Chrissy.
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Wonderful list filled with gratitude. Lovely post, Corinne !!!
Thanks, Vasantha.
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Loved your list Cori…little joys of life are the true blessings. Thanks for the reminder.
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Thanks, Balroop. Often we take the little joys of granted, don’t we?
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Thank you for reminding of things I can and should be grateful for. Faith in God… A safe childhood… Chocolate… All important things we take for granted. Very thoughtful post.
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Love your huge list! My first thought was “wow, wonder if I could come up with that many.” And I’m happy to say the answer is yes, I’m sure I could. I love the things you included.
I completely missed Finish the Sentence last week…time is really getting away from me lately.
What a great lsit! I love how you are grateful for people who irritate you!! LOL
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Thanks, Rabia. Oh they teach us so much about ourselves, don’t they?
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Making a gratitude list changed my way of thinking. Good that you changed the topic from “99 things I love ” to “99 things grateful for”. Great list Corinne, might have taken a long time 🙂
Thanks, Mahathi. Actually it took all of 15 minutes to write this. The image took longer! 😉
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You most certainly have A LOT to be thankful for! Thanks for sharing your list with us 🙂
I do, Abbie. Thanks for stopping by.
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Ahhhh a gorgeous list, and I love the way that almost each item on it has the potential to spiral off into other gratitude items, both larger and smaller than the original. We really, truly are blessed with SO much wonderfulness in this life, and yet sometimes it seems so easy to forget or turn a blind eye to what we have.
Thank you for sharing this glorious list 🙂
Ha ha..I think I’ve got a few hundreds more to go as well, Lizzi. Thanks for stopping by!
Corinne Rodrigues recently posted..Discovering What I Believe #MondayMusings
Lovely idea! So important to remember to be grateful for all the good things.
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