10 things I am grateful for this month of October
What are you grateful for?
Autumn is here and this season is my 2nd favourite in the year. The trees are all changing colours now and the weather is now much colder and in the single digits. It’s been stormy for a couple of days now with strong winds and very cold temperatures but I love it. When I got up this morning to go to the gym it was dark, windy and drizzling, I looked out the window and my bed looked much inviting than the weather outside but I went and had a really good session. Coming back from the gym I had to wait for the bus and the wind was bitingly cold but I was so grateful that the bus was comfortably warm. But when I got home I was elated because it just so warm and cozy. It was still very dark outside but my mum had turned on the heating everywhere so the temperature was just perfect. This made think of how grateful I am of it all and so I will like to encourage us to find 10 things for the tenth month of the year to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
Grateful for the gift of life and health: I can not stop saying thank you to God for the gift of my life, my family’s, loved ones, friends and to you reading. We are more than midway through the 10th month that is to say we have roughly 10 weeks to the end of the year and if you are here like me in good health then I say a big thank you again.
Grateful for a safe flight in stormy weather - This week my mum came home from her 6 week vacation and it’s the same week most of Europe is also facing strong winds and storms. She be home safe a couple of days now and my heart is once again full for protection.
Gratitude for the health and lives of my loved ones - I can’t stress this enough but everyday I get to enjoy great health with my family and big belly laughs is more than enough reason for me to be grateful. This one point here is a constant in my daily gratituding for I never take it for granted.
Grateful for a really good gym session this morning - Like I opened this newsletter with the temptation to stay in bed was so strong had not packed my bags last night I would have had a lie in but as I currently write I am feeling so good for having gone and also for starting the challenge my sister and I have set for the rest of the year.
Gratitude for the warmth in buses, gym and home. I cannot imagine what it will be like sleeping out inn the cold or not having heat because from the little experience I had just waiting for the bus I am humbled and can only express gratitude for the abundance of warmth and coziness I have in all these places.
Grateful for being able to sort out all legal stuff after my move - this one has been a very challenging one but by midweek I was so proud and happy to realise all registrations, confirmations and approvals had gone through for myself and my business. I was so relieved to have these all in place after months of going back and forth with different agencies and departments.
Gratitude for my cousins help during the delivery of my stuff back home. I am so grateful to my cousin for her help when she had no obligation to. She drove me around and helped me carry boxes in the apartment.
Gratitude to my business coach for drawing up a new strategy for me and my business. Investing in myself and my business is one thing I will always be grateful for and these are paying off every single day.
Grateful for my dear friend and our mastermind which is about to commence again after a break. I missed out catchups but I am grateful that we ad the opportunity to take some time apart to attend to other things whilst still keeping each other in the loop.
Gratitude for inspiration and starting this new chapter. - It sometimes felt daunting but never unsettling when I first made the decision to relocate. The weeks and days leading up were hectic but today from where I sit I am just so grateful for taking the leap and doing this. It can be scary at times to close a chapter to open a new one and start with a blank slate but this time I have a draft of this new chapter and more experience so I take consolation in the fact that I am divinely guided and protect at all times and God and the Universe have my back.
There are still so many things I could pen down but for now this is my scratching the surface of my gratitude list for October alone. Experiences, gestures, achievements and feelings that can’t be undervalued in anyway these are the things making my heart full on a daily basis. So as we enter the weekend and without knowing how October has treated you I just want to encourage you that if you are here reading take a few minutes to acknowledge the goodness in your life for what we praise will increase and what we complain about will remain.
Affirmation: I exhale worry and inhale joy.