Grateful Spring

Here it is July 3rd and I have not posted since March.  I have had a few long talks with myself about this...agonizing talks, with lots of excuses and then some reflection and then some realization...here is what I came up with that helped me figure this all out...I blogged for 365 days in 2010 (that was my goal) and I accomplished it and am very proud of myself.  I struggled to figure out if I would continue in 2011 and if I would continue, what would be my purpose this year?  Why would I feel the need to continue blogging daily?  Would not doing the grateful daily impact my life positively or negatively. So, as you can tell I made it to March and I am happy about that. 

This spring was interesting.  Lots of rain, little sun and very busy with family, work and home.  All in all there is much to be grateful for; I just didn't blog about it.  Many times I have thought about "if I was blogging today, what would I be grateful for?" and "am I repeating my blog titles/ideas?"...sometimes I am very grateful for not blogging and getting the "have to do it" off the table but yet as we all know, when you a goal is set and a focus is maintained for a purpose, well it impacts your life and blogging daily for 365 days about what I am grateful for greatly and positively impacted my life.  It was a very good thing! 

I miss it, yet I feel I can step away from it and continue being grateful without typing it out daily.  Although I did feel that if Oprah read my blog in 2010 she would tell me "good job" and now she would ask me "why did you stop?"  Ha!  Like Oprah reads my blog.  But I did think about her a few times whilst blogging. 

So, I have come to this conclusion.  The grateful daily was always just for me, for my peace of mind, my soul, my inner growth and it served its purpose; very well.  I now know what it can do for me and now I can use that along with the fact that I need balance between daily and not-daily. 

I will continue to be grateful everyday.  I will purposefully take the time to be grateful every day and remember why and who and what and say thank you.  If I am near a computer then I will blog about it, if not I will try and remember, if that does not work, then when a computer is handy I will get to it when I can.  I will not feel super guilty about it and I will work being grateful daily into my life, making balance. 

I am grateful for Paul, for challenging me to do a 365 blog.  Thank you Paul.

I am grateful for the peace of mind that comes from knowing, enough is enough with this path and I am willing to embark in a new (somewhat lateral) direction. 

I am grateful daily, you may just not know all about it now.  Thank you for listening and reading; please keep checking in, your support and comments have always been extremely comforting.