#jdills100daysofgratitude....

Several months ago I found myself in a little bit of a rut. I recognized that I wasn't really myself and I felt really down. I decided that I wanted to re-find myself, my happy heart and grateful attitude. I thought about what I could possible do that wouldn't be to difficult or time consuming, but would help me recognize all I have to be grateful for. I decided that I would try and look for the good in my day and recognize how many blessings I have in my life. Now, in the past I've tried this before and after 5 or 6 days felt ok and forgot about it. I decided that this time was going to be different. I wanted my goal of being grateful to have a lasting effect and help me re-establish my habit of recognizing blessings.

So, I decided that every day for 100 days I would post a picture of something I was grateful for on Instagram. This way I would be (hopefully) held accountable by myself and by others.

I began. One day at a time, for 100 hundred days, I looked for something to be grateful for. Some days it was REALLY hard, some days it was all I could do to come up with one thing to be grateful for. Some days it was really easy, I had so many things I felt grateful for that I was overwhelmed.  It became something I looked forward to every single day. I found that as the days passed by the things I was grateful for went beyond the surface and became deep meaningful things. I found myself full of gratitude and happiness. By the end of the 100 days I had accomplished what I set out to do. I was out of my rut. My heart was happy and I was happy to be alive.

For day 100 I knew exactly what I wanted to post, but I first wanted to write a short blog about what I was grateful for on day 100.  (So day 100 was actually weeks ago... whoops!)

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Today I am grateful for myself. I'm grateful for the life I've been given and I hope that I can live it in a way that will not only make my parents, husband, and Heavenly Father proud, but in a way that I am proud of it too. I am beautiful. I can do easy things. I can do hard things. I can face my fears, live my dreams, have hope in the future. I am a wife, a daughter, a sister. I am a creator, a giver, a lover.  I can say with 100% certainty that today and every day I am grateful for me. I am me and that is EXACTLY who I want to be!