the basis of optimism is sheer terror

Posted on November 15, 2007 by chloe elizabeth

I am grateful that tomorrow is Friday. Is it too early to be grateful for that?

I am grateful for long, sweater dresses.

I am grateful for Elise, one of my secretaries, who says funny things like, “I’m a victim of my own optimism”.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. … When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives.

President Gordon B. Hinckley

the example he sets is a first class ticket to nowhere!

Posted on November 15, 2007 by chloe elizabeth

I am grateful that I found a good doctor to remove my tonsils. I can’t wait…you know, in the “I’ll be so much happier once they’re out” kind of way. Now I just need to find someone who can pick me up after my surgery.

I am grateful for serendipitous circumstances. Because I’m having my tonsils out and need all of my vacation and sick time for it, I needed to change my flight for Thanksgiving to Wednesday. While this cost an extra $31 (not bad, all things considered), I was told that because of some weird airline thing, I will be flying first class on my return flight. So, it’s only a 1.5 hour flight, but I’m still super excited, as I am morally opposed to paying for first class and I imagine that this will be the only time I ever experience it.

I’m grateful that the deadline was extended for my application to one of the schools. My heart just isn’t in it, so the extra days will be super nice, since I really would like to get in there. I do need to have it done by Friday, but that should be fine.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

William James

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.

Anthony Robbines

not everyone can come and go by bubble

Posted on November 13, 2007 by chloe elizabeth

I am grateful for musicals. I love them! Thanks, Sarah, for the cd! I’m totally obsessed.

I am grateful that my mom taught us how to cook (bake more than anything) and always loved having us in the kitchen.

I am grateful for nights when I get to bed at 9:30…like last night. It’s rare that I hit the hay before midnight, so 9:30 was amazing. I’m not sure my body knows how to handle a full eight hours of sleep.

Gratitude is a state of appreciation, an act of thanksgiving, which causes us to be humble because we recognize an act of kindness, service, or caring from someone else which lifts us and strengthens us.

Elder Robert D. Hales

sometimes you get what you want

Posted on November 9, 2007 by chloe elizabeth

I am grateful that I just received my first interview offer for an MBA program! So, so, so exciting!
I am grateful for people who write comments on my blog (even the ones that some might consider rude). I like feedback, even the negative kind. Whether in spite of or because of the feedback, I feel like I always become better when I am able to internalize it. Unless it’s just meant to be rude…then I just ignore it!
I am grateful for my extended family. Tonight, my aunt Kendall made me a really yummy birthday dinner of soup in bread bowls and my mom’s famous cheesecake. My grandmother baked her famous lemon and cinnamon pound cake. Delicious! And my cousin, Maddie, always makes me feel so extraordinary. Tonight, as we sat down to dinner, discussing our lives (well, mainly mine since I was the birthday girl), Maddie wrote down a list of all the reasons she wants to be like me. It was very flattering.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Buddha

effect as a verb

Posted on November 8, 2007 by chloe elizabeth

I am grateful that I was raised in a family where I was loved unconditionally and I was so important to my parents; my dad always providing stability, and my mom being super-mom as she coached soccer, led Girl Scouts, and made our home somewhere everyone felt welcome. It wasn’t perfect…or even close to perfect, but I think where there is love, most things can be overcome.
I am grateful to have met so many wonderful people through blogging, but Anne especially. She is one of the most thoughtful people I know and I feel so luck to have her as a friend and running partner! (Anne…I love, love, love the camera!!!)

I am grateful for the gratitude challenge. It’s what got me out of bed yesterday…when I started to whine, in my head, about how much I didn’t want to get up (not that it’s really an option), suddenly all of these “grateful” thoughts started popping into my head. It was totally irritating, yet effected the paradigm shift I needed. Yes, I needed a freaking paradigm shift to get out of bed yesterday.