HOLY SMOKES!
*We* made it! Gratitude Attitudes for 365 days. WHEW. *wipes brow* That was a toughy.
Here's what you didn't know but I did as I started the Gratitude Attitude 365 - the conclusion of it. I was very intentional about when I started it so it would end the day before my 40th birthday. Why? Because I knew how I wanted to celebrate my 40th birthday and a year full of Gratitude Attitudes leading up to it was a perfect way to build up to that milestone birthday.
The past couple of years a lot of my friends have turned 40. It's so interesting and fun to see how they have chosen to acknowledge and celebrate this particular milestone. Some have passed the day quietly, others have partied - either planned by them or as a surprise planned by someone else, and I'm guessing some have ignored it all together.
A few YEARS ago I decided how I wanted to spend my 40th birthday. For me personally I only pay attention to my milestone birthdays, the "in between" years I could care less. Anyway, a few years back I started thinking about my 40th and I decided I wanted to spend my 40th doing Random Acts of Kindness. Kindness comes out of Gratitude. And kindness is paid forward only from a grateful heart, a heart that has received kindness as well. My year chronicling Gratitude Attitudes was a record of the kindness of God in my life through the things I highlighted every single day and the ones I didn't highlight but made themselves known.
My year recording Gratitude Attitudes was a preface, a very long one, to my 40th birthday and I how I wanted to celebrate it. I wanted to spend my 40th in gratitude to God for the life he's allowed me to have, for the invitation he's given me to be his hands and feet, and hopefully gifting people with a smile and maybe even a warm fuzzy! My 40 years of life haven't been and aren't about me, they have been and are about God so I wanted to celebrate that.
40 Random Acts of Kindness. Let the fun begin!
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The Story
The Epilogue
*We* made it! Gratitude Attitudes for 365 days. WHEW. *wipes brow* That was a toughy.
Here's what you didn't know but I did as I started the Gratitude Attitude 365 - the conclusion of it. I was very intentional about when I started it so it would end the day before my 40th birthday. Why? Because I knew how I wanted to celebrate my 40th birthday and a year full of Gratitude Attitudes leading up to it was a perfect way to build up to that milestone birthday.
The past couple of years a lot of my friends have turned 40. It's so interesting and fun to see how they have chosen to acknowledge and celebrate this particular milestone. Some have passed the day quietly, others have partied - either planned by them or as a surprise planned by someone else, and I'm guessing some have ignored it all together.
My year recording Gratitude Attitudes was a preface, a very long one, to my 40th birthday and I how I wanted to celebrate it. I wanted to spend my 40th in gratitude to God for the life he's allowed me to have, for the invitation he's given me to be his hands and feet, and hopefully gifting people with a smile and maybe even a warm fuzzy! My 40 years of life haven't been and aren't about me, they have been and are about God so I wanted to celebrate that.
40 Random Acts of Kindness. Let the fun begin!
Read the rest of the story!
The Story
The Epilogue
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