I am grateful for my body. My body is a contribution to my life. I get to go to bed late and still be able to get up early and function. Or I get to sit in a car driving for 5 hours and still able to move after that… Thank you body!

Canadians are so courteous: I was waiting for  the bus in this beautiful ordely line-up. I stepped out of the line because the bus arriving was not my bus. I had not seen that a second line was forming behind me. So I was out of the new line. But when my bus arrived, the one guy who was behind me in the old line waved for me to go back in front of him in the new line. How nice!
Being at the front of the line can mean getting a seat versus having to stand the whole way…
I am grateful for courteous people!

I love getting a good book. I had requested this book at the library so long ago that I don’t remember when. And I finally got to go pick it up. It is used by many reader having read it, the cover and the title are pleasing. I can feel the excitement building. I can’t wait to dive into it. I am grateful for good books.

I ran out of butter for my usual breakfast toast (with butter and honey). Looking at what I had, I became creative: I mixed Nutella with coconut oil. It is sooo delicious!  And it’s good for you.
I am grateful for making me laugh. I wonder what else I could create!

I am grateful for a yoga session on Kitsilano beach that included a bit of laughter yoga, followed by a beautiful sunset and then metor shower watching on top of Mt Seymour. How does it get any better than that?

How odd to wake up with the song “Rudolpgh the reindeer” playing in my head in mid-august….
I am grateful for waking up with a happy song in my head. How does it get any better than that?

2015-08-12 Gratitude 100:
Last month, I started getting excited about this post: this is day 100 of posting something about gratitude. It is really fun.
I am grateful I started this 365 days of gratitude and that I made it this far!
What else is possible?
PS: I know from the numbering, it looks like I skipped a few but at the beginning I wasn’t numbering my posts. I started May 5!

I am grateful for this article that inspired me to change things: I took a different bus and I stopped half way for a long forgotten errand. Then continued on, on a different bus. On my walk home, I met a lady who lives in the house next door. I have never talked to her because she is very loud. So I changed that: I smiled at her and she started talking to me. After a few minutes she nearly stopped so I told her I was one of her neighbor. So then she launched in a 20 minutes talkaton. And then she had places to go so she left. When I told Rolly all the things she told me he laughed and laughed. And I love hearing laugh. So I am grateful for all that was changed and yet to get changed…

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7962880

I read a sentence recently that influenced me. It was something like “Your life starts where your comfort zone ends.”
This sentence helped me choose to change phone despite a few hurdles along the way. Learning to use an android after an Iphone is not comfortable. And at the same time it is fun to explore new possibilities.
I am grateful I am starting to tame my new phone…
I wonder what other fun is there at the end of my comfort zone…

I made a mistake at work: I forgot to ask someone to complete a form. And when the person needing the form asked me about it, I said I forgot. It was really strange for me to notice that I didn’t make myself wrong for it. In the past, I would have been all flustered for not doing a perfect job. This time, I just apologized and since I was not beating myself for it, I was able to easily offer a solution.
The solution was turned down and I just moved on with my work. And then as if by magic, a few minutes later, the person who needed to fill that form came back and I was able to ask him to complete the form.
I am grateful for being able to be nice to myself and not beat myself up for being less than perfect.
What else is possible?