I’ve been running this in another forum for about 18 months now and it’s had some remarkable results.
The theory is simple: work at attitude fitness in the same way that you’d work at physical fitness – ie regular exercise. And you’ll find that the results of good attitude fitness will include, but aren’t limited to, a more positive outlook; greater self confidence; improved physical health; yada, yada, yada.
All you have to do is make regular lists of things which you appreciate and/or are grateful for. You don’t have to win the lottery (although that would be nice ), just make a conscious effort to enjoy the small stuff and acknowledge them in this thread. It could be something as simple as how good that first sip of coffee tasted.
By making the effort to list these things in this thread, you’ll find that you become more conscious of the good things that happen each day and you’ll find that it gets easier and easier to make your list. You’ll also find that the cr*p things don’t matter so much.
Try to aim for a list of five.
Soooo...here’s my list for today.... 1. It was relatively cool when I first got up so that first coffee really did taste brilliant. 2. Boof the Wonderdog isn’t a fussy eater so I’ve been feeding him somewhat elderly leftovers from the fridge. I really appreciate the fridge being less cluttered; I save money on dog food; and I feel far less guilty than I would if I had to throw stuff out. 3. No bills in the letterbox – YES!!!!!!!!! 4. I’ve managed to get a lot done this morning. 5. The only good hairdresser in town had an appointment time for me this afternoon. Usually you have to book weeks in advance and, for various reasons, I’m long overdue for a visit. I’m particularly pleased that I can get it done today because last night I was asked to support one of my neighbours at a tenancy tribunal hearing tomorrow and attend a surprise birthday dinner on Friday: both these events will go a lot better if I look better so I couldn’t believe my luck in getting an appointment this arvo.
Kewl idea Auntie Bev! Being a 'Yank', it's wayy too easy to loose perspectives round here [down unda] & yer post prompts my first thought: "Oh yeah, dey don't have TANXGIVIN down here!"
1. I saw a marvelous Crested Goldwing struttin across the street while walkin to the library. [http://photos.rnr.id.au/2006/01/24/bird_Crested_Pigeon_Braeside060124-1292.jpg] 2. My coffe is always perfect. [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As58RYyMSDqfber75yyB_Ybty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090731003027AARbUkR&show=7#profile-info-qiaT4CE7aa] 3. We've actually got no mortgage! [http://www.minti.com/groups/38673/Not-a-parenting-question/blog/345205/] 4. We're very healthy & still in love after more than 40 years [http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p8N0hXKaxt9iSL0SKcnvg1_-VI-7sxhfSYeD3RANOXmRuU3lmfCt7Lid7ZLoZqTA56LJvLHHXmJ9cWtts-fM8PQ/redslashMrs.MikeOne.JPG] 5. There's at least one more Australian ready to embrace 'Thanksgiving'!
Tanx Aunt Bev!! Alll feedback is welcome at: mikeone496@msn.com mikewonaus
1. I got to have a Maccas breakfast this morning - a very nice one off treat. 2. I received GREAT results on some of my last min uni assessments today. 3. Had a great laugh today with my brothers girlfriend. 4. um... 5. Found a great new thread on eblah and realised I have much work to do with my attitude fitness but thank you AuntyBev - I look forward to getting better at this!
1. People are having a shot at this. Yay!! 2. I just got home from walking back from town and I’m treating myself to a cold drink. I’m certainly enjoying it. 3. The sweat is pouring off me right now and that makes me feel virtuous because I worked hard for it. 4. The haircut and colours turned out brilliantly – pity I no longer have the face to match but hey, you can’t have everything. 5. I’m researching tonight because I’m acting as support for a young family tomorrow in a tenancy tribunal case. I’m really looking forward to it because I’m good at this sort of stuff and the family in question have been treated very shabbily by their landlord. Normally I’m a very nice person but there’s a part of me that just lurves sinking the boot into a well deserving backside and tomorrow I get to do just that and I can employ my full smart a** capabilities.
I'm grateful to have many inlaws, all of whom have for the most part adopted me into their family, and in a loving and understanding manner in most cases.
I'm grateful that I have not gone hungry for a long time, and I'm grateful that when I did that it was out of my own stupidity and compulsion to put other things before my basic needs... it was a learning experience on a number of levels.
I'm grateful that I have a wife and daughter that love me, and who I love.
I'm grateful that my wife understands me, despite occasional chaos.
I'm grateful that people are people, and that hating an annoying stranger, or even someone familiar, doesn't have to mean that you will forever, or that you don't love them.
I'm grateful that there's a world to exist in.
I'm grateful for fans in the summertime.
I'm grateful for my wife's wonderful body.
I'm grateful that I had breakfast all ready to heat up from the plate I set aside last night.
I'm grateful that I don't say rude things to Lurvit anymore (sorry Lurvit )... same with aquamonkey... and also... the list is really too long to go into isn't it
I'm grateful that birds come to my balcony.
I'm grateful that I've accidentally accumulated plants on my balcony.
I'm grateful that I can afford clothes to keep warm in the winter.
I'm grateful for time to myself.
I'm grateful for time with friends.
I'm grateful for time with my daughter.
I'm grateful for time with my wife.
I'm grateful for my luxury possessions, even though I'm more attached to some of them than I would like to be attached to a thing.
I'm grateful that God is there, that he loves me, and that on my better days I can love you.
I'm grateful for a full night of sleep, last night.
I'm grateful for this forum, the people on it, and this thread.
I'm grateful that I don't say rude things to Lurvit anymore (sorry Lurvit )...
Ha! I actually don't remember... so it may be true ... Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words will never hurt me.. does it go something like that?
However, I am of course glad you're a lot more happier these days meandean.
1. Happy I woke up early today - got a lot done
2. Off to continue my xmas shopping
3. Found saved money - I had no idea I had (great for the xmas shopping!)
4. I'm taking my baby niece to have a photo taken with Santa (she's 9months there maybe some screaming lol)
Ha! I actually don't remember... so it may be true ... Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words will never hurt me.. does it go something like that?
1. My neighbour bought over her lease documents last night. Her bro-in-law was looking after the kids so... four hours later she went home feeling a lot cooler and I’ve got a new self-adopted niece. I can’t have enough of them. 2. Got the washing done and hanging out on the line by 6.45am this morning. It made me feel so virtuously productive that I gave myself permission to put off the vacuuming for another day. 3. I’ve got lots of ammo for the tenancy tribunal hearing and I’m playing the following to get me in the mood...
*evil laugh* 4. My son’s going out tonight and that gives me the opportunity to lecture him on the evils of excessive alcohol intake....I found out last week that, after a few too many at a previous party my son woke up after about an hour’s sleep and, thinking he was waking up next to his lovely Amy, he nearly kissed his mate Toby by mistake! I’d love to have seen the look on his face – and I can’t resist an opportunity to stir him up about it. 5. I love reading other people’s posts in this thread. It brightens my day and helps me to get to know you.
1) I'm seeing a big group of my friends tomorrow (albeit for Twilight ), and we haven't been together much since 2008. 2) JESC is almost here, my site is growing in visitors every day and everyone on that forum is in a state of massive excitement 3) Ani Lorak is performing Shady Lady at the JESC 4) The stage isn't as horrible as I first though 5) My friend visited me at work today, that was a nice surprise 6) Everyday I enjoy walking home from work, because it's a good chance to daydream. I sang 'Zo Verliefd' during the walk 7) Reading the comments to an article on a gossip blog made me laugh for some reason
I've always been more funny sarcastic than funny haha. I think it's a lot easier to tell the bad things, making light of them though. Good things is very hard, and I don't like to sound cheesy. Perhaps I'll be the most skeptical of this, but I'll try it
Every night I say my 'prayers' and say what I am grateful/thankful for in my life. Sometimes I drop off to sleep half way through usually after I have said that I am thankful for my children and their partner/wife (naming everyone in full), my parents (even my deceased Daddy) 3 of my grandparents (full names, all deceased) sisters and their husbands and children especially my eldest sister, her husband (who I have known since I was a little little girl) and their sons and families. I am also grateful to be alive. I am thankful for my loverboy who reminds me almost every weekend that I am 'not dead yet'! Always I am thankful for this forum and also all my friends on here and 2 new friends.... Tesla and Aunty B! I have on my fridge a notice board that says 'Be thankful for.....' and 'Be grateful for.....' to remind myself every day I have so many blessings in my life and I should be thankful/grateful even for the horrible things that have happened in my life especially this year because they make me aware of the many things I have to be really really thankful for The last few years and in particular this year, have taught me much
1. It’s great to meet new people and make new friends. 2. My neighbours got an excellent result from the tenancy tribunal hearing. Hugs and tears all round and they’ll be moving into a decent house by 2nd December. 3. My son drove to Adelaide last night and got to Port Augusta and Adelaide OK. It’s a long and dangerous trip made even more dangerous by the fact that we’d had some rain last night after all those long hot dry days so all the animals would be out looking for run off water. He managed to dodge them all. I’m glad he knows what to do when different animals suddenly appear on the road; how to handle a blow out; the breaking and steering limitations of fully laden road trains and all that stuff – but even so, I’m so relieved when he send those texts to me. 4. It’s 36 rather than 46 today. 5. I’ve got the house to myself for the next two and a half days.
Hey Dara,
Kudos for giving this a try. Nothing wrong with a bit of the old cheese – just as long as it’s not between your toes or other places I won’t mention.
-Got Nearly all Christmas shopping finished this morning.
-Planned an easy dinner because I feel lazy.
-Got Nearly all Christmas presents organised by what is for who, what gets hidden and what goes to my wife for inclusion with other gifts.
-Got to sleep at a good hour last night despite having been stuck sleeping during the day, and prognosis for a complete (though always temporary) roll around in my insomnia, to normal hours is very good.
-Looking forward to sex after forced monthly break is over.
-Found myself daydreaming while walking to the train station. Realised that it is pretty nice to have a dorky smile on my face and not care what strangers think, but the memorable part of the daydream was that I thought about the whole daydreaming thing as a result of Dara mentioning enjoying that while walking home from work, and thought to myself, "I wonder if Dara is normally keeping herself busy or mentally occupied on purpose all the time, because I thought not daydreaming would be the exception to the rule, and not the other way around," which wasn't really that funny, but I enjoyed typing it just now
-Thought of a really cool gift for my wife after I was done shopping today and thought I was done buying her stuff and it only costs 12 dollars.
-Found out that the Toys R Us ballons I got are even bigger than the last ones we got.
-Didn't even care that someone queue jumped right in front of me at the grocery store when everyone had really full trolleys and were going off sideways so there was still room in the space behind the registers. Not long ago, this would have not only justified, but warranted and demanded that I start an argument that would frustrate me enough that I'd be weighing the pros and cons of going to jail. I didn't even care...
-Think that I look way better naked than I actually do, which is a really fortunate thing
-Almost forgot... have lost a lot weight with not much effort recently, and little chance of associated yo-yo diet regain.
-Have gone from drinking nothing but coffee all day long, to drinking it just in the morning, to none at all, and it wasn't really very difficult.
-The coffee machine, that I no longer use, was taken apart and thoroughly cleaned after I went to bed last night. I don't know why and assume we must be giving it away, but still... it was getting kind of nasty and now it looks new.
1. Started feeling sick on Friday afternoon; missed the surprise birthday dinner; felt like death warmed over yesterday; but feel a whole lot better today! 2. Felt sorry for Suzi, reading her news but it’s fantastic to see how people here support each other and do what they can for each other. 3. While helping the neighbour and his brother organize the surprise birthday dinner, I came across the happy thought that we could set up a sideline business organizing parties with a difference. There’s zero competition so we’d do very well. The guys play guitar and are willing to dress in drag and I’ve been doing Dame Edna for years and can write lyrics etc so we could do singing telegrams; do organizational stuff; run party games etc. It’d be a lot of fun and we could all use the money. 4. Had to organize someone to pick up my husband from the airport and my first visitor of the day just offered. Brilliant. 5. We’ve had lots of rain and I’m loving the cooler weather.
1) I'm going to Eurobeat next week with my friend and 2 others I will meet for the first time 2) A western country won JESC 3) The Benelux kicked a**! 4) Auntyben joined evsc 5) when I went on my site there were >50 users online
), just make a conscious effort to enjoy the small stuff and acknowledge them in this thread. It could be something as simple as how good that first sip of coffee tasted.
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)... same with aquamonkey... and also... the list is really too long to go into isn't it 
), and we haven't been together much since 2008.
The last few years and in particular this year, have taught me much 