Let's celebrate!

Nell Merlino, founder of the Make Mine a $Million project, always encourages women to celebrate our successes, and she encourages us to truly celebrate, to truly mark a passage of time, and to do so before other things come in like paying the bills, taking care of business, minding the children, and letting a special moment pass.

We deserve to celebrate: we deserve to be thankful and to be thoughtful and to honor our lives.

So let's celebrate today.

Plan a celebration to toast your achievements and those of others, to express gratitude and appreciation for your relationships at home and at work, and to be joyful in life.

Things to celebrate include:

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...

...It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melodie Beattie

The best way that we achieve success is by expressing true gratitude for our circumstances, our situations, and our abilities.

There is a beautiful quote attributed to German philosopher Meister Eckhart:
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “Thank You”, that would suffice."

Gratitude uplifts us and keeps us whole. Gratitude puts everything in our lives into perspective. The gift of gratitude is a neverending source of awe, wonder, and respect for everything that we experience in our lives.

What are you grateful for today?

Keeping gratitude in your heart is a sure way to bring you closer to your soul's true joy.

What are you grateful for today?

As physical creatures, we are able to experience our world through a combination of taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing.

Use these marvelous abilities!

When we connect with our physical nature, we help ourselves appreciate the sense of being alive.

+ Enjoy a delectable snack or a lovely warm cup of tea: enjoy the flavor combinations on your palate.

+ Feel something that brings you joy: a luxury cashmere throw, a smooth round stone, or your child’s hair: your fingers, toes, and even your skin gives you a way to touch the world around you.

+ Observe beautiful art or nature and give thanks for what you can see.

+ Inhale a delightful aroma and appreciate how much your nose knows.