Challenge: Happiness Advantage Week 3

More details about this challenge can be found in this post.

Day 15
Good restaurants to meet with friends and have date nights in
Finding mystery seeds and all the potential they contain
A merciful game master

Day 16
Beating my fear of making the wrong choice by making a meaningful but meaningless choice every day. Take left or take right to get to work. Depending on the traffic flow, one could get me to work faster or late, but in the big picture, it doesn't matter.
Playing real life Mario cart with my life fellow on the way to work
Celebrating birthdays to show your appreciation of someone

Day 17
Access to healthy food and clean water
Getting my registration as a therapist sorted out
Truthful meetings with the boss

Day 18
The magical soothing powers of a good cannoli
Lazy days off
Loooong weekends

Day 19
Sleeping in and snuggling
Hot showers and good accoustics
The sun in my window

Day 20
Having the ability to improve my mood
Cuddling and watching a movie
Fresh baked cookies

Day 21
Flexibility and adaptability
Access to good healthcare
Setting goals and sticking to them . . . mostly. =p

Week 3 conclusion:
Okay, my time goals were a bit out of whack. This one week was really two. While I thought about things every day, they weren't always new, and I didn't write them all down. I am glad I did this challenge, but I am also glad that I no longer have the small pressure to record things and can just sit back and enjoy. Every grateful statement had a moment of "this is life". I felt more aware of those moments by week 3-4, as if I was both looking back and feeling it happen at the same time. Revolving around the little happinesses and really seeing how good I have it.

Happiness Advantage Conclusion:

So now that my little experiment is done, and I am deeply grateful for my life. Yes I was grateful before in a "cool, I am doing okay at this life thing" sort of way. Honestly though, I can be a bit of a whiner, focusing on the things that went wrong in my day rather than the things that went well. I really do have it good. This is a feeling I would have in passing, but now, a month after having started truly thinking about the small and big things in my life that make me smile, I feel appreciation far deeper than I normally am used to. As time passes, I hope to still practice small moments of gratefulness daily.  

Enjoy what you have now, because tomorrow everything could change.