Giving Thanks

Today is Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Now this is a holiday I like! It’s all about good food and appreciation. What a great reason for a day off. Although we don’t celebrate it here in the UK, it’s a good reminder to appreciate what you have. All to often we go through life just focusing on what is missing.

So today, Happy Thanksgiving to you guys in the US, and congratulations on having a fabulous holiday about appreciation. I salute you! And for the rest of us, let’s take a few minutes today to count our blessings. We have so much to be thankful for. And I would like to thank YOU for reading, for commenting, for being the reason that I write blogs. I appreciate your presence on my blog more than you will ever know. Thank you.

Love

Donna.x

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If You Can’t Think Of Anything Nice to Say, You’re Not Trying Hard Enough

You will probably have heard the saying “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”. But all that means is that you have a lot of ‘not-nice’ things unsaid. So I’d like to challenge you now – think of someone that you have nothing nice to say about…and try harder to find something nice to say!

Find their good points, compliment them, appreciate them, big them up to other people. Not only is this more fun than gossiping and running people down, it’s quite amazing what happens when you start being nice. You get back what you give out, and when you are looking for the good in people, you find that they are a sparkling diamond. A marvelous discovery!

Love

Donna.x
PS I’ve always liked you, you have excellent taste in blogs! xx

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How Do You Choose to Spend Your Time?

Tell me this, if I asked you what’s ‘wrong’ in your life, how long could you talk for on this subject?

And if I asked you what’s good about your life, how long could you talk for?

And which do you choose to talk about more?

I have spent a lot of time (for me) over the past few days telling people about how my life sucks. But the thing is, everyone has things ‘wrong’ with their life – the question is how do you choose to spend your time? Moaning about how life is crap, or appreciating just how good you have it? (And if you don’t think you have it good, spend a bit more time on thinking about what is good – air in your lungs is a good one!)

I chose to spend a goodly portion of my life over the past few days whinging (and I enjoyed it too!), but I know deep in my heart that I have much more to appreciate than I do to moan about, and now I’m choosing to remember that, and use that air in my lungs accordingly.

Love

Donna.x

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS one and all!

I hope you are having a lovely day, that you got everything you asked Santa for, that you are having lots of fun, love and laughter. Remember today to appreciate all that you have – all of the presents, all of the love, all of the quality television (Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing – GET IN!) Gratitude is one of the most beautiful things, and the more you can appreciate what’s already in your life, the more you will enjoy all that you have.

Wishing you all the joy you can stand!

Love

Donna.x

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Stop Looking At What You Ain’t Got

I had a vague thought in the back of my mind to write something about thankfulness and gratitude today, as it’s Thanksgiving in the States. Even though we don’t have that celebration here, I feel like I do…because I read lots of newsletters and blogs from folks in the states! So I’m absorbing Thanksgiving by osmosis. I also think it’s a cool idea for a day – “eat loads of food and say thank you for stuff” as one of my American friends describes it. Sounds like my kind of day!

Anyway, on the radio today T.I featuring Rhianna “Live your Life” has been playing, which starts “Stop looking at what you ain’t got and start being thankful for what you do got.” Which gives me the perfect message really doesn’t it? Especially in tough times, it’s a really great practice to stop complaining about what we don’t have, and be thankful for what we do have. It reminds me of a Lenny Henry sketch in which he talks about a tribe who greet one another with ‘how are you? And your wife and family? And your goat?’ – and that’s it because that’s all they have.

Imagine if someone were to greet you with ‘How are you? And your husband and family? And your car? And your wardrobe full of clothes? And your 25 pairs of shoes? And your widescreen television? And your electric power shower? And your tinted moisturiser? And your laptop? And your 200 CD’s? And your fridge with it’s own ice-maker? And your 43 saucepans? And…’ You’d be there for HOURS! Days, even.

So for today, even if you’re not in a place that celebrates Thanksgiving, give thanks anyway for all that you have – not just the material possessions, but the love and friendship and joy that surrounds you. And I want to thank you for reading, and for giving me an audience to play to!

Love

Donna.x

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Love’s Labour’s Lost – YAY!

A couple of months ago I went to see Dr Who (David Tennant) in Hamlet at the Crescent Theatre in Stratford. I discovered that he was also in Love’s Labour’s Lost – a Shakespeare play that is rarely performed (at Stratford at least). It was sold out, but you can sometimes get a ticket if you go down to the theatre on the day and there are any returns. So I’ve been thinking about doing this for months – I have LOVED every performance I have seen in Stratford, and wanted to see a play I don’t know.

This week is the last week – there’s just 2 performances left, Friday night and Saturday matinee. So today I called the box office to ask what time I’d need to get there to get a ticket, whether I’d be able to get one and other such questions. I spoke to the most lovely, helpful lady who discovered while we were talking that there was a ticket available!!!!! AMAZING! It’s a standing ticket, but I can go over and see if there’s any returns knowing that I’ll be able to see it anyway.

Ok, that’s the back story: here’s the point of my post today – 3 of the things that makes a life so wonderful is following your wants, appreciating the help you get along the way, and getting RIDICULOUSLY excited about the things that you are looking forward to! I am SO excited I can barely sit still, I am SO grateful for that lady who helped me, and I am SO glad that I followed my want…what can you do TODAY to follow a want, to appreciate something or someone, and to get RIDICULOUSLY excited about something in your life.

Oh, it’s only a play…and I might have to stand up all the way through it…but I know that this is going to be a MAGNIFICENT 3 hours in my life. I can’t wait!

Love

Donna.x

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