What Are You Thankful For? This Year’s Turkey In The Room
The Turkey In the Room
What a year…it began with an unbelievable and frightening riot on the Capitol, resulting in more unnecessary death and racism still pervasive and it must be stopped, both threatening our Democracy and the souls of each and everyone of us. A terrible pandemic…and hope for change for the better.
The health challenges, planet challenges, violence, the list of pain in our world is far too long.
Let this Holiday be one of healing, hope and happiness. A respite if you will to be grateful for all we have and focus on seeing those we love healthy and our world healing and abundant.
Change for the Better
I may not have answers to such big issues. I am much more of a one baby step at a time kind of lass. Still, I honestly believe incremental changes, little shifts, lead to massive transformation.
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Hate has no place at my family’s Thanksgiving table. Love, on the other hand, is welcome at every seat.
Love, Forgiveness, Keeper of the Flame
I don’t believe I can change the viewpoints of others who live by feeling they are better than others or have the habit of blame and shame. Hurt can beget hurt, as hurt turned outward is anger.
I do believe I am the “Keeper of the Flame” for myself and those I love. I hold the vision of each one of us manifesting our what we desire, our dreams.
I raised my sons and live by the belief that if I treat others the way I want to be treated, with kindness, with love, with respect, with compassion, then I am living my best life.
It’s not all roses and fairy dust. I believe in speaking out against bias based on race, creed, gender, sexual orientation or economic status.
Do I forget sometimes and criticize and beat up on myself? Yep.
Just like you, I am a work in progress and forget that when I am unkind to myself, that sends out damaging energy into our world too. I do my fair share of ho’oponopono.
I teach what I most want to make a deeper habit for myself: forgiveness and gratitude, abundance and love. And you thought I taught organizing 😉
Organizing is simply my toolbox. My roundabout way to get into my client’s minds (and my own) to allow for shifts by moving things and decluttering stuff and in doing so, quickly help them, (and me), reprogram and clear the clutter of limiting beliefs.
Holiday Anxiety
For many people this time of year is the start of a sneaky domino effect of feeling anxious and blue. This year’s uncertainties may therefore compound the despondency. That’s okay. Accept the anxiety and it dissipates.
Keep the faith. Trust in the face of doubt.
Breathe out Fear, Breathe in LOVE.
You deserve to live an abundant life even better than you ever imagined! You’ve got my vote and support.
Soul Organizing
The simplest way I know how to invite a gentle attitude reset is writing a Gratitude or Thankful list.
I am thankful, as always, for my sons and for you. I am honored to accompany you on this journey from chaos to clarity, making daily life simplified and easier so we manifest what we want. I am thankful for love, peace and joy in my day.
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Top 10 Thankful List:
- I am thankful I believe in a source greater than me.
- I am forever thankful for my sons that God gifted and entrusted to me.
- I’m thankful I’m a woman despite living in a country that’s still never had a female president.
- I am wonderfully thankful for my mama who taught me what it is to be a loving, nurturing, intuitive mother.
- I’m daily thankful I am accepting and in fact embrace the differences of others.
- I am so thankful for friends, family and those who offer thoughtful encouraging words.
- I’m thankful I practice this repeatedly and often in my day; “I deeply and completely love and accept myself exactly as I am.”
- I’m most thankful for many amazing clients who afford me the abundance and wealth I deserve and for the honor it is to work with them.
- I am blessed and thankful for my two sons who are nurturing souls, generous, kind and make the world a better place.
- I am grateful and thankful that I know that at the heart of a good life is gratitude and forgiveness.
Let’s be kind and respectful, remembering to listen with an open heart.
What are you thankful for?
Let me know what you are thankful for in the comments below.
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For those of you who don’t yet know me, I’m Jul’s Arthur. I help women professionals & entrepreneurs STOP endlessly spinning their wheels stuck in anxiety and overwhelm with the chaos and stuff in their home, instead START simplifying, so everything has a place, they gain FREEDOM, CLARITY and manifest their DREAM LIFE. I’m also the author of the book 25 Days of Holiday Organizing! Ready to trade in DIYing it for fast track results? I’d love to help you go from chaos to FREEDOM
I am thankful for…
1. Jul’s for reminding me how important gratitude is and for inspiring me to write this list!
2. My breath
3. My health
4. My healing tools
5. Having a support network of amazing and talented women
6. My pain and sorrow
7. My joy and happiness
8. My family
9. My work
10. My ability to sit here and write this list!
This is a very inspiring list Angela! So glad my post has reminded you that gratitude is a deeply special gift always at our fingertips! Baby steps lead one to amazing success.
Jul’s, this is such an honest and well-timed post! I’m so glad you talked so openly about the election and your views – you did so in a respectful way which is what every American needs to do now, regardless of their choice. That led perfectly into thankfulness and reminded me that I have SO much to be thankful for. Thank you for validating the post-election emotions, while offering such a beneficial way to keep our eye on all we have to be grateful for. <3
Thank you April. I appreciate that you agree with me to openly discuss what is on my mind, and then keep positive. I hear that you have so much to be grateful for, and I am grateful for your reading and commenting on my blog!
What a beautiful gratitude list Jul’s. Being in Australia we don’t have Thanksgiving of course, but I have a gratitude journal I write in every day. I have a lot to be thankful for, but for starters I’m thankful for my departed parents and the time that I did have with them and the way they raised me. I’m thankful for my husband and three wonderful children. And thankful that I get to work from home. Oh and of course thankful for my dog and cat who keep me company during the day 🙂
Angela, What a lovely gratitude list!
nice thankful list, jul’s. since the beginning of the year, i’ve been jotting down 3-5 things i’m grateful for each day. at the end of each month, i compile my favorites and post them on facebook (i.e. at the beginning of december, i’ll share my “november goodness” list). it’s been a practice that has brought me much joy.
Oh I love this idea! I am going to adopt it and give you credit my dear! Facebook Gratitude, I love it. I post 3 things daily that I am grateful for as well. A lot of times, it’s just little things, but it absolutely shifts one’s perspective and mindset. Thank you for sharing your practice.
I try to say out loud 3 things I am thankful for every night before bed. I will tell my husband, mom, sister, or email a friend. I know it’s a little weird, they all thought so when I started, but I believe focusing on the good in our lives and practicing gratitude makes us more rounded and happier humans. So here is my list for tonight:
1. My patience, sometimes my adorable two year old pushes my buttons and if it weren’t for patience our household would be absolutely insane
2. My mom, we talk at least once a day if not more and I treasure every conversation
3. Leggings, I get to be comfortable and stylish at all times, best trend ever, they also help me hide the extra baby weight I haven’t yet lost – win 😉
Aww, I love this ritual of saying 3 things out loud you are thankful for! I am so thankful I have such a positive clan reading my posts…you all give me the best ideas for inviting happiness and gratitude into my life!
Thank you for giving me this idea, and let’s see what I’m thankful for (the order is not intentional):
1. I’m thankful for my health – it brings me happiness and I can enjoy the people around me
2. I’m thankful for my new yoga studio – I finally found my second home
3. I’m thankful for my apartment – the neighbourhood, the building, the apartment, the view are spectacular
4. I’m thankful for my dog – she’s almost 14, a beautiful lab that’s been my partner in crime for so many years
5. I’m grateful for my son, who makes me proud every day and who inspires me forever
6. I’m grateful for my boyfriend, whose love is sometimes more than I could imagine
7. I’m grateful for my parents, for their health and their genius – I chose them well 🙂
8. I’m thankful for all my friends, whether they are current friends or people who were supposed to comfort or challenge me
I’ve got more, but it’s 3am and I have to finish a blog article 😀
xo
I love this! I think your wonderfully inspiring Thankful List has put healing energy into the world, and it was a delight to start my day with…you are such a beautiful lady Llyane inside and out! Thank you for offering your Thankful list gift to me and all who are lucky enough to read it. 🙂
Wonderful time of year to focus on Gratitude!
I agree Sandra, and I will add that any time is a good time to focus on gratitude, and yes sometimes we only think of it round Thanksgiving time in the US, but right now seems an extra special need of some unifying gratitude and Organizing Soul Mindshift 😉