Daily: Reflect on at least 5 things for which I'm grateful (Happiness Manifesto #2)

11:39 Things I’m Grateful For This Week
1. I’m grateful for good guitar practice all throughout the week, getting some nice riffs down in my current work in progress.
2. I’m grateful I can relieve myself off most pressures. I perform best when I’m free and easy.
3. I’m grateful we are celebrating my grandma’s birthday tonight. I love my grandma.
4. I’m grateful my dad’s out of town taking mission critical decisions about his new business and that he feels fine about the options he’s got even when they’re not the best case scenario.
5. I’m grateful for being mesmerized by all of Achtung Baby from my third listen (and third day with it.)
11:47 Preparing For A Great Next Week

22:05 Things I’m Grateful For This Week
1. I’m grateful for my reaction immediately upon falling on my back on thursday after the chin-up bar came loose, that I calmed myself and managed to stay put while thoughts of broken bones raced my head. I’m glad I could spot silver linings and think with gratitude as I regained movement on my limbs.
2. I’m grateful I’ll probably be able to resume working out tomorrow or no later than tuesday.
3. I’m grateful for getting all my chinese character progress so far into my palm’s supermemo software and for how much quality and efficiency that’ll add to the learning process.
4. I’m grateful for this weekend’s great jazz concerts from one musician branch of our family from Rio, and for a nice time spent with them in between.
5. I’m grateful I’ve been actually able to throw and catch three balls multiple times with just three days’ juggling practice! It’s crazy looking back at how I felt only yesterday, as sure as death I’d never be able to throw and catch even two balls consistently. Mechanical skills are a magical thing.
22:26 My Back’s Still Absolutely Trashed Though

17:26 Things I’m Grateful For Today
1. I’m grateful for the scare just now after doing a dumb “I should have known better” thing on the bars. Glad life could teach me a lesson while sparing all of my limbs’ movement. You know how those things can go.
2. I’m grateful for a new goal. Former was kinda fuzzy and I had been putting off it’s checking off for far too long.
3. I’m grateful for the resolve to eat MORE. Like a horse if I can help.
4. I’m grateful I started to learn juggling today.
5. I’m grateful that “having” the idea to use juggling as a quick space-out break from work reminded that I had actually read about it on The Power of Full Engagement earlier this year. I’m grateful I still get this feel-good sensation remembering that book, possibly the best non-fiction I’ve come across so far!
17:40 I Need To Kill This Pain

20:12 Things I’m Grateful For Today
1. I’m grateful for simple methods to reduce procrastination and enhance productivity.
2. I’m grateful for spotting ever more opportunities for working towards my goals and living my visions in the here and now.
3. I’m grateful that today I set a new record for glasses of water drunk.
4. I’m grateful for an unbelievable (and messy) tuna sandwich.
5. I’m grateful for a new month, the prospects it brings.
20:20 Ready To Plunge Into Day’s Review

12:50 Things I’m Grateful For This Week
1. I’m grateful for getting around to wrapping up the last pieces of my current focus so I can delve upon a fresh goal next week, and for working into the weekend to make it happen.
2. I’m grateful for being in an expansive phase in terms of ideas, culminating with sheets and sheets of hand-drafted ideas this week. And then for typing up all that this morning.
3. I’m grateful for reclaiming my workout this week, never really dropped it but had been lazing about far too much for the last couple weeks.
4. I’m grateful for reaping the results of the past month’s forearm dropset, finally this week I noticed how big the muscle’s getting (I didn’t actually realize where my muscle focus was located in my arm till today!)
5. I’m grateful for getting throughout this week most of the tools and accessories I had been ordering overseas for the past weeks, they are really helping me work smarter.
13:03 Hungry For Meat

10:26 Things I’m Grateful For Today
1. I’m grateful it’s morning and I have already taken three moderate meals.
2. I’m grateful I’m keeping my focus better than usual.
3. I’m grateful I’ve been able to sort out the issues I had with two of my classes.
4. I’m grateful for putting one foot after the other and mindfully watching the most common of our movements.
5. I’m grateful for youth.
10:30 Tranquil And Relaxed

20:37 Things I’m Grateful For Today
1. I’m grateful for an opportunity for mentoring my brother.
2. I’m grateful for the new desk-mounted holder for my palm allowing me to work more swiftly.
3. I’m grateful for my successful DIY desk-mounted holder mounted stylus-holder [sic].
4. I’m grateful for today’s forearm dropset. Can’t help but feel good when I temporarily lose the motor coordination to even note down the weighs in my workout log.
5. I’m grateful this gratitude log is helping me get back writing often in my journal, and that counting my blessings is so much better at recording day events in a bigger sense than I ever thought it could be!
20:46 Feeling In Control

14:40 Things I’m Grateful For Today
1. I’m grateful for a sunny Sunday afternoon.
2. I’m grateful for enjoying music, and for building up the routine to really listen and know it.
3. I’m grateful for seeing landscapes that have witnessed so many things for endless centuries.
4. I’m grateful for dreams. For dreaming and for feeling compelled to take action to make them true.
5. I’m grateful for ancient times and for accounts and fiction alike that we get to hear of them.
14:47 Dreamed Few Minutes Ago At My Window

17:19 Things I’m Grateful For Today
1. I’m grateful for dawning upon a genius solution for a problem of mine. Yes, I know! No, I’m not modest (but I’m grateful!)
2. I’m grateful for my daily workouts: it’s while I’m tearing down by muscle fibers one by one that I get my cream-of-the-crop ideas.
3. I’m grateful, not for pork again, but today for it’s delicious sauce (go leftovers!)
4. I’m grateful to have a vision for who and where I want to be by the end of the next year.
5. I’m grateful for açaí. You won’t taste it till you miss it.
17:32 Still Sweating And Still Smiling From The Workout

19:32 Things I’m Grateful For Today
1. I’m grateful for working through these holidays and into the weekend ahead! I’m making critical progress on my current focus and couldn’t be more grateful for that.
2. I’m grateful for the power of simplifying. Trimming down is exciting!
3. I’m grateful for pork. Supper was out of this world. It makes me happy that though I never eat junk I can allow myself fat and abundant food now and then without any concern.
4. I’m grateful for the rain outside. Most of all for it’s smell.
5. I’m grateful for my fingers finding their way to the keys as if in magic. It took a year on and off, but the occasional bliss of flow pays it a thousand times over.
19:45 The Awkward Touch On The Keys Means My Fingernails Need Cutting