Grateful

Gratitude is the opposite of despair . . .

I am grateful for:

• Awareness
• Insight
• Empowerment
• Failing enough to learn enough to become a winner
• My fan-base—thank you all for reading my thoughts and commenting on my posts
• Beauty and the ability to perceive, manifest, and create it
• Poetry and my own talent in writing it
• The Human Potential movement and the opportunity to be a part of it
• My beautiful family
• My beautiful pets
• Cute, furry animals
• Expansive blue skies and floating, majestic white clouds
• Miracles and our empowerment to manifest them
• Salvation from self
• The percipience that empowers me to recreate myself as I wish to be
• Literacy
• Literature
• Wine
• Health
• Friends
• The ability to learn what benefits me and unlearn what does not
• Perseverance
• Self awareness
• Self
• This moment and my ability to enjoy it as it is
• Opportunity and the ability to recognize it
• Luck and Serendipity
• Optimism
• Meditation
• Concentration
• Clarity
• Curiosity and adventure
• Mobility
• Affluence and Abundance and the power to manifest them
• The ability, willingness, and opportunity to add value to others’ lives
• Love and friendship
• Charity
• Acceptance
• The realization that being judicious is a good thing and that being judgemental is a waste of energy
• The realization that I manifest my own situations
• The realization that Life is always a wonderful thing, and that situations are both temporary and changeable
• Problem-solving skills
• The obstacles I’ve overcome at the profit of learning and becoming who I am and who I want to be
• Unlearning victim mentality and learning self-empowerment
• Mentors who have encouraged me
• Mentors who have challenged me
• Students who have given me the opportunity to teach them at the profit of learning much for myself as well
• Clients
• Critics
• Characters
• Film Noir
• Movies
• Novels
• Music
• Art
• The capacity to appreciate and enjoy all manner of art, artistry, craft, and cleverness
• Indoor plumbing
• Heating and Air Conditioning
• Shelter
• The outdoors and the majesty of nature
• Travel
• Rivers, waterfalls, and other natural phenomena
• Diversity
• Individuality
• Philosophy
• Spirituality
• Sense, sensability, and sensitivity
• Single-malt Scotch
• Coffee
• Coffee liquere
• Language and the diversity of languages
• Intellect
• Science
• Technology
• Leonardo
• Scripture (inclusively)
• Glass
• Canvas
• Paint
• Musical instruments
• Voice
• Audio recordings
• Cameras
• Books
• Personal Computer technologies
• The Internet
• WordPress