7 Things I’m Thankful & Grateful For This Year

Gratitude can quickly turn trite and cliche. Some people use it as an excuse to do nothing with their lives.

When you practice true gratitude, though — the combination of being thankful for what you have and continuing to improve your life — you develop a superpower.

You’re grounded in the fundamental understanding that your life is good.

Coming from the basic understanding that you’re relatively well off in the grand scheme of things keeps you from being negative, envious, and cynical.

Then, you use gratitude as a springboard to work even harder. You understand how lucky you are to even be able to do any of this, at all. Coming from that perspective, you’re honoring life by making even more of a contribution instead of just settling.

I want to share some of the things I’m grateful for, reflect, and even get a little bit personal and show you a window into my life.

I hope that my examples give you what you need to finish the year strong and start the next one with the proper perspective.

I’m Grateful For Life Itself

On the surface, being grateful for life is trite.

But if you think about it at a deep level, being alive, sentient, and conscious…