The focus for the 51st week (December 18 – December 24) of the 52 Weeks of Gratitude Challenge was: 100 Things to be Thankful For Looking back at the year 2016, there are so many things to be thankful for, well over a hundred. If I should recollect all the bottles of red wine we drank, in celebration for one thing or the other, it should come close to a few dozens. Some of those bottles counted multiple…
The focus for the 50th week (December 11 – December 17) of the 52 Weeks of Gratitude Challenge was: Lessons Learned This Year I think the year 2016 was a learning year for me. The lessons learned from different experiences were humbling and sobering. I painstakingly had to learn some lessons, while some were a bitter pill to swallow. But as the year comes to an end and I look back at all that I learned,…
The focus for the 7th week (Feb. 14 – Feb. 20) of the 52 Weeks of Gratitude Challenge was: A Friend 1 Each time I think of it, I keep asking myself the same question: what business did I have with a 13 year old, 9 years ago? I do not remember how we met, but I know that it was Yahoo! Messenger that connected us. I met with a few other foreigners online during that…
The focus for the 3rd week (Jan. 17 – Jan. 23) of the 52 Weeks of Gratitude Challenge was: Family Over the years, I have come to understand that “family” means more than just blood relatives. I was an introvert growing up, so I often stayed away from people, including my family. If you know me, and the rest of my siblings, you will understand that I am different from the most of them. As…
I took my first gratitude challenge back in the year 2012. The challenge was to write down 3 things I was grateful for daily, for 30 days. In the end, I should have listed 90 things I was grateful for. But unfortunately, I only made it to 69 things I’m grateful for.
I have always know the power that an attitude of gratitude has on one’s life. We always say that there are so many reasons to thank God, and yet not many of those who say so, can actually name a hundred. 365 Colors of Gratitude was a journey for me, naming and documenting one new thing to be grateful for, every day of the year 2015. Indeed it has been a journey