Day 28 of the Think Thankfully 30 Day Challenge - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends!!! Today is the day! The fourth Thursday in November is one of my favorite days!!!! I absolutely love love LOVE the Thanksgiving holiday! I love the memories I have of Thanksgiving as a child. I love the smell of my parents' house on this particular day! I love that we sit down as an entire family, all around one big table (except the table for the kids, they get their own table!) and give thanks on one special day reserved specifically for the act of practicing gratitude, although I wish we were in the habit of practicing it more than just this one day/month a year. The day when the country all tends to issue the Happy Thanksgiving message to one another (unless you see fit to tell people to "gobble til ya wobble") You see, I am a firm believer in the idea that practicing gratitude is a powerful force that can transform your entire life if you let it and it shouldn't be reserved for just one month a year.

Start practicing gratitude each and every day. Start with a simple little thank you. Look for reasons to thank those important people in your life each day. Challenge yourself to say it at least once a day to someone who does something to make your day happier, your job easier, for the kind gesture, anything. In doing so, you will begin to shift your daily focus to the good, and in return you are looking for good things all day long and when you do that, you often start finding them and practicing gratitude becomes easier and easier. Before you know it, it becomes part of your natural routine. It becomes common for you. It no longer takes effort. 

Today, challenge yourself to begin practicing gratitude each day until next Thanksgiving. Let's see just how wonderfully your life can change simply by practicing gratitude. Gratitude opens our heart and mind and in that simple act of gratitude, you are opening yourself up for a miracle because miracles can happen. What miracle await you in the coming year? Don't stop now.....practice makes perfect!!! By accepting this challenge, you will see that Thanksgiving doesn't just happen one day a year, it happens 365 days! In my world, it does. 

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends.....be thankful! Think Thankfully!!!!