Well, here is it. The last day of the Think Thankfully 30 Day Gratitude Challenge. November 30 is here, already. Seems like just yesterday, I was making a promise to attempt to post a blog every day of November. Here, 30 days later, I'm proud that I was able to keep up with the blog postings throughout the challenge I presented YOU with!
Today's blog will be more of a reflective blog. Reflections on the 30 Day Gratitude Challenge I placed before the followers on the Think Thankfully Facebook page and here as well on our little blog. I asked that you take time each day to list what it was you were thankful for. At the beginning of the month, the facebook page BLEW UP with comments, shares, people talking about Think Thankfully! I was so excited I even started, what I called The Journey to a Thousand Thankful Hearts! I pretty much had myself convinced we would reach 1,000 followers by Thanksgiving. Some images, in the first days of November, reached over 2,000 people. And then, like most things, it fizzled out. Think Thankfully was lucky to reach 100 people. Comments ceased (except for some faithful followers who commented nearly EVERY day! - THANK YOU!), shares ceased (except for some faithful followers who shared our statuses and images nearly EVERY day! - THANK YOU!), and it seemed as though the masses fell short on the challenge. Not everyone, mind you. And for that I am truly thankful.
It has been nice, zipping through my newsfeed on Facebook and seeing everyone posting what they are thankful for. I could NEVER get tired of seeing that, reading the posts, feeling a smile spread across my face when I see some of the things people realized they were thankful for. It saddens me to think that tomorrow, it will stop. December 1 will roll around and a large majority of the postings will come to a screeching halt. The world will go back to being what it was on October 31. There are a few people who I truly think will continue with the idea. Some people really seemed to 'get it' when it came to the challenge and what I was trying to do. Gratitude changes your outlook, which in turn can change your life.
Gratitude takes our experiences of the good things in life
and makes them even more enjoyable, allowing us to enjoy them more thoroughly.
Gratitude also helps us to endure the hard things in life with dignity, perhaps
even with humor. I’ve seen that in a lot of the postings this month on various
friends’ pages. Some people had some tough stuff to endure this past 30 days,
yet they were able to find something to be thankful for, something the hardship
taught them, something to smile about even through the heartache and pain.
While I presented everyone with a 30 Day Gratitude Challenge, it was my sincere
hope that it would become a 365 Day Gratitude Lifestyle. For me, this journey
is well over 750 days long. I know there are some people who get sick of seeing
the posts on Facebook. They are tired of reading what people are thankful for
and for that I am truly sorry, however I will not stop and I hope those who
have found this challenge continue it as well.
Continue living your life with true gratitude in your heart.
Continue finding the little things to be thankful for. Continue reflecting on
your days and seeing all there is to smile about. Continue expressing your
thanks to those people who make a difference, for those moments that shape us,
for the blessings that are given, for each day before you…….
Note to self……Note to YOU……ALWAYS be thankful!!
Think Thankfully!!!!
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