Today’s happiness is brought to you by a “getting organized for 2015” session with my Filofax, some personally-customized weekly checklists printed on full-sheet labels, and the little $3.00 paper cutter I picked up a few months ago at the dollar store (which, incidentally, has proven to be one of the most inexpensive and invaluable tools ever!).
100 Happy Days – Day 58
It may sound silly, but fact that I’m good at – and actually take pleasure from! – getting organized is something that’s on my gratitude list. I used to be rather over-sensitive about being referred to as organized (I think “organized” somehow translated to “boring” in my mind!), but I’ve grown to appreciate being this sort of person. Of course I don’t always live up to my own plans and expectations, but I do a whole lot better than I would have if I didn’t set up these kinds of systems for myself in the first place.
Let’s hear it for organization!
→ The 100 Happy Days web site
→ My 100 Happy Days posts
Hope you’ll join me in this week’s Gratitude Linkup!
(If you’d like a bit of background on why I started the Gratitude Linkup, check out this post.)
How to get involved in the Gratitude Linkup
- Write and post an entry in your own blog containing your gratitude list for a moment in time.
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My Gratitude List
In no particular order, here is my own gratitude list for this moment in time. I hope that after reading it you’ll go on to write and share your own!
- Finding out that BlogHer ’15 is going to be held in New York City – one of my favourite places, and also an accessible and relatively affordable destination for me, travel-wise.
- One of my daily photos being highlighted in the “Extraordinary Eight” on the FMS Photo A Day Facebook Group.
- Great talks, supportive friends, connection.
- Our local cable company’s “Video on Demand” service – an extremely inexpensive way to go to the movies from the comfort of home. (As an aside, last night we watched The Book Thief, and I highly recommend it. The book by Markus Zusak is one of my all-time favourites, and I wasn’t disappointed with how it was developed into a movie.)
- Long sessions of productivity.
- Peter’s smile, laugh, silliness, sense of humour.
- My perfect-for-me job and my accommodating employer.
