What I Am Grateful For

Ok, David Wescott did it, so I’ll push out some emotional gruel for your consumption this morning. I am grateful for:

My family, my family, my family.
My children are happy and healthy. Period. Full stop.
I have a few jobs. A lot of people don’t even have one.
The ability to have built a pretty successful consulting practice – as a part-time gig.
The Simpsons.
In a year in which way too many people lost their homes, I gained a second one.
My friends – those relationships that have developed and grown over the years. You know who you are.
Gaining new friends through social media – and meeting them in person.
The ability to laugh.
The fact that I get to try cool stuff in social media – and love it.
Baseball, specifically the Boston Red Sox.
Having the time to coach my son in baseball and basketball, and watch my daughter become an accomplished Irish dancer.
The word “w00t!”
To live in a country in which your career is often what you can make it.
When my former students come back to me for advice.
Meditation.
Speaking another language that is my passport to forming friendship with people with whom I would not have the opportunity otherwise.
Knowing that every day I try to touch someone’s life in a positive way.
Our soldiers who have either made the ultimate sacrifice, or as I write this, are missing their own families to protect the freedoms that we too often take for granted.
Pizza.
Walks with my dog.
Cigars.
(I am stealing this from David Wescott) – the two people who read this blog.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I like days like today that make people stop and thing about what they are truly grateful for.

Mark