Thankful.

It’s easy to be thankful for things around Thanksgiving.

It’s easy to wake and be able to rattle 20 things off that you are thankful.

It’s easy to be thankful for things on good days.

When someone ask you what are you thankful for you can easily say family, friends and my health and be satisfied with your answer.

No doubt those are great things to be thankful.

It’s good that thankfulness can come easy to you, sometimes.

It’s also easy to take being thankful for granted.

On good days and on bad days we should be thankful.

We should be thankful for everyday things and everyday details.

We should be thankful for the good and the bad.

Blessings are give and take and we should be thankful for that.

Waking up with a thankful heart happens often, but happens when you don’t?

I find myself every so often waking up, almost dreading the day.

Definitely not thankful for the 20 minutes of extra sleep I could have gotten but didn’t.

You see, being thankful often sets the tone for your day, often sets your attitude and hot you will handle things.

Waking up with a thankful heart mostly means a good day and good attitude.

Waking up with a not so thankful heart means your day may not be as good as you would want it.

However, you have the ability to change it.

Life is always about choices and it’s your choice on what tone you set in the mornings.

Before, I said it was so easy to be thankful for good things.

Although it’s not conventional to be thankful for bad things, we can turn those into to good things.

You have to wake up at 6am?

Be thankful you can wake up.

Be thankful you have a job or event to wake up for.

Your kids are being too loud?

Be thankful you can hear.

Be thankful you have kids.

Be thankful they are happy and healthy.

You have three papers due?

Be thankful you have a school to go to.

Be thankful you can get an education.

You can always turn those bad things into good things.

Being thankful can easily turn your day around and put you in a better mood.

My challenge to you is: Be thankful, even when you don’t want to be. Be thankful for not just the generic things. Be thankful for the good and the bad. Just be thankful.