Monday Challenge: Days of Gratitude What's better than a week of getting ready to be with friends and family and taking a few much deserved days off work? A gratitude challenge after all...it IS...Thanksgiving week. ;) So what does it mean to be grateful anyway? The definition is of gratitude is: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. Each day we wake up....but what makes us so privileged to earn that right? Each moment, we all know, is not promised. Life goes by fast....and for some...too fast. And what's the ONE thing that everyone wants in the world? Could you guess that it's that we all want to be....happy!?! Each moment is a gift. We have no way of knowing or assuring another moment will be given to us...and because of this, many of us take that for granted. So stop. Open your eyes, your ears, your nose... open all your senses and enjoy the richness that is given to us, whatever life is offering to you in this present moment...just flow with it. When you can do this, it allows you to turn on celebrating the present moment and magnifies positive emotions. Research on emotions does show, however, that positive emotions wear off quickly when we spend so much time racing through life, getting to the next moment not appreciating the moment we are in. I know I'm guilty. It isn't always easy....but it's only as easy as YOU make it. So when we are racing off to the next to-do, watching things like movies, computer screens and our little gadgets, sports and so on, we tend to motivate our emotions to wear off quickly. So this week, I inspire you to become a greater participant in your life as opposed to just a spectator. #gratitude #grateful #liveinthemoment #presence #useyoursenses #thanksgiving #family #friends #self https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXW3-CHuhJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qzzt0wqi5epz