#50 Write 3 Things You Are Grateful For

...at the beginning of each day and at the end of each day.  During the few days before Thanksgiving, your dad had a conversation with someone who said that she had nothing to be thankful about and went on about her supposedly awful life.  

As parents, we love to buy and give things to our children.  It is a priceless joy to see the excitement in the eyes of your kids when they receive the gifts.  The experience encourages the giver to want to continually give more gifts to experience the priceless joy over and over again.  It is however a disappointing experience to give gifts when the recipients are not excited when opening and accepting the gifts.


How would you expect to receive more greater blessings in your life if you don't know how to be thankful of the other "little blessings" such as having a place to call home, having parents or siblings who are still alive, having vehicles that are running well, having a good health, having clothes to wear, having a job, waking up to see another day, having a friend, having the ability to see, hear, taste, touch, walk on both legs, and the list goes on and on.  The good news is God is love and like the lyric on JJ Heller's song:  God "loves you for you, not for what you have done or what you will become."

Three things you are grateful for...when you begin your day and when the ends.  When you appreciate all the "little" miracles, you will live your life in a more positive, upbeat, optimistic way.  The famous Albert Einstein wrote, “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

#10 Always Have A Big Healthy Breakfast

Most (unhealthy, obese, etc.) Americans skip their breakfast, or if they do have breakfast, it's only a cup of coffee or a bowl of cereal or a sugary diabetes inducing Pop-Tart.  And then they have a medium sized lunch, say a sandwich or something.  And then the finale is the dinner, usually at restaurants or ordered, about 1,500-4,000 calories per person per dinner.  99% of these folks then proceed to sink their big bottoms on their recliners and watch The Biggest Losers or Dancing with the Stars, wishing they can be like those people on TV.

If you follow these habits, remember we still have that wooden paddle hidden somewhere in the house and we know where you live.


Do the opposite.  Eat like Asians do.   Ask dad.