GRATEFUL CHALLENGE 2015

It’s year two of my taking the Grateful Challenge! (For last year’s post, click here.) Inspired by Spin Sucks, the goal is to set a timer for 10 minutes and try to list 99 things you’re grateful for.

This year’s installment:

1. My parents
2. A spouse who understands why it is so important to me that my spouse be my friend as well as my lover (Wayne)
3. My daughter (Tenley)
4. My son (Wayne Kevin)
5. Our cat Alice Cooper
6. Our cat Bella
7. My father-in-law (also a Wayne!)
8. The memory of my mother-in-law (Barb)
9. A roof over my head
10. A house with a great running route right outside
11. Running
12. Running friends
13. Fitness
14. My fitness friends
15. My Fitfluential relationships
16. Blogging
17. My #ChevyPlayMiami experience
18. Having my son with me in Miami Beach while I was doing #ChevyPlayMiami
19. My NASA Social experience
20. My Social Good Summit experience
21. Being a Shot at Life Champion Leader
22. Toastmasters
23. That one special friend
24. Lunch at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel with that one special friend while the crowds streamed in to see Pope Francis in Central Park
25. My friend Mary Jane
26. My friend Audrey
27. My friends’ children
28. Tenley’s oportunity to do the Disney College Program starting in January 2016
29. Dairy Queen Blizzards
30. Reading
31. Audiobooks
32. The perpetual influence of The Diary a Young Girl by Anne Frank
33. Tallahassee
34. New York City memories
35. New York City memories to be made
36. The play Wicked
37. My son’s new (to him) car
38. My son teaching me how to drive his new car
39. A bus option in Florida that gets me from point A to point B affordably, with wi fi
40. The Spin Sucks community
41. My work with Weaving Influence
42. The leaders I work with through the Lead Change Group, a division of Weaving Influence
43. Chocolate
44. A nice glass of wine at the end of each day
45. My Coach, Kristie Cranford
46. My KR Endurance team
47. The child I run for via I Run for Michael, Gareth, and his family
48. Friends who help with my father-in-law
49. My sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law
50. My nieces and nephews
51. My goddaughters
52. Being free to worship how I want to
53. The Twitter community (except the jerks!)
54. People who teach me about WordPress and help me climb other technical learning curves
55. Patient people
56. Smiles
57. The beauty all around us
58. Sunrises & Sunsets
59. Learning about weather from people who are more than “forecasters”
60. A great set of crepuscular rays in the sky
61. My coworkers at Weaving Influence
62. Being paid to do social media
63. Scott Ginsberg (The Nametag Guy) who encouraged me to “make a date with the page”
64. The potential of the Global Goals
65. My role as a Florida Prepaid Blogger Believer
66. Every opportunity I have had to get paid for blogging
67. Other blogging opportunities which I did not get paid for or paid my own way for which which have paid off in other ways, most notably in the incredible people I’ve met
68. The two people I have mentored in Toastmasters
69. Being able to practice my Spanish
70. The drivers/staff in Miami and Orlando who just start speaking Spanish to me and expect me to follow along
71. My half brothers
72. The trails in Tallahassee
73. My electrophysiologist
74. Being able to run still (so I guess thanks for beta blockers and that “running through mud feeling”!)
75. That one friend who said “talks with you are my sanity”
76. A sense of humor
77. That my FIL’s cancer appears to have been obliterated
78. Doing the zoo run in Tampa in August with my friend Diane
79. Margaritas!
80. The ability to read
81. The ability to write
82. The ability to speak
83. The HAMP program
84. Tenley’s employer, Chicken Salad Chick of Valdosta
85. Everyone in Valdosta who has helped Tenley the last 1.5 years
86. The teachers who give Wayne Kevin a chance
87. The teachers who give Wayne Kevin more than worksheets
88. The freedom of speech fo expres myself during the “Curious Incident” kerfuffle
89. The ability to see Curious Incident on Broadway the month after the kerfuffle (which reinforced the fact that the kerfuffle was worth making a fuss about)
90. Journalists here in Tally who have intelligent dialogues with readers
91. TV journalists here in Tally who support me in giving voice to important issues like World Immunization Week
92. My involvement with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
93. My NYC Half Marathon in March 2015
94. The Light the Night Walk last month
95. Silvia, the first child we sponsored in Guatemala via Unbound
96. Estela, the second child we sponsored in Guatemala via Unbound
97. Stanley, the child we sponsor in  El Salvador via Unbound
98. Coming home tonight to find the bah humbug spouse had put the lights on the Christmas tree
99. My Faith

Want to Join?

It’s never too late to spend ten minutes focusing on gratitude! Let me know if you do the challenge!

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Paula Kiger

Wife of one, Mom of two, Friend of many. My pronouns are she/her/hers.