Gratitude Lists

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I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;

    I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

Psalm 9:1

Some months ago I found myself mindlessly scrolling through YouTube.

I had been bingeing on those motivational videos we all seem to be addicted to. I’d found myself so down in the dumps of late and couldn’t seem to pick myself up.

Then I hit on a video that was quite interesting; it was a collection of these really powerful and actionable speeches. You see, actionable is good.

A common theme running through the collection of speeches was around gratitude being key in lifting yourself out of negativity; more specifically, they were keen on Gratitude Lists.

So, I decided to write one. Things I thought I should be grateful for. After struggling to write a few points, I ran out of points and tapped the top of my pen against my lips, completely out of points. I looked at my list; I wasn’t feeling better. Ah-Ah.

“You’re doing this list wrong”, I heard a voice in my head say. “Write down what I have given you, things or people THAT IF TAKEN AWAY, would completely devastate you, or others around you”.

I’m still writing.

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June Anasiudu

Snapshots from a Life author June Anasiudu writes funny, fun, and thought-provoking life lessons gleaned directly over the years, or from others' lives. The objective being to bring laughter, learning, and healing. Her stories, mostly true-life, aim to help her readers quiet the everyday chaos in their lives so they can relax and learn to focus on being the superhumans they were created to be, weeding out the unimportant frivolities in life.

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