Motivation Monday: Give Thanks

Thought this would be an appropriate post for the season!

Giving thanks or being grateful...whatever you want to call it is NOT a natural human tendency.  Maybe that's a reason we have one day a year to remember thankfulness. I think its something we need to practice every single day of the year for many reasons but here's a few:

1. Giving thanks minimizes depression.
2. Giving thanks maximizes joy.
3. Being thankful creates an outlook of viewing life's events as successful opportunities versus stressful obstacles.

Instead of having the exhausting viewpoint of discontentment or comparison try to look at what you DO have.  You have life, you have the ability to move your body, to live freely and to achieve as much or as little as you put your mind to.  My challenge is to think every single day of at least one thing you are thankful for, don't wait until next year at this time to reflect.