A Winning Season

It’s Thanksgiving time! It’s my favorite holiday and a time of the year when I consistently ask myself...

How am I possibly going to get all my food shopping done? (Twenty Two for dinner)

And then...

I ask myself, “What am I thankful for?”

Pondering this question is an excellent and important exercise and I recommend you all engage. In fact, I will admit, I don’t wait till Thanksgiving to perform the ritual of giving thanks...I consider it a part of my mental health regimen.

As a competitive type, I tend to keep “scorecards”...

My “scorecard of thanks” allows me always to balance “losses,” negative occurrences in my life, with my list of “wins” or those things I am grateful for.

Like when Marge had two surgeries last month (the loss column)...and I was a wreck. I placed the fact that she woke up (with a good prognosis) in the win column.

When I turned 45 a few weeks ago and realized I officially cannot read a menu without glasses and a physician used the “peri-menopause” word in my presence (losses) I acknowledged that the alternative to aging sucks and decided hitting 45 without “dry” body parts was a victory.

My competitor’s view of life also has me pit my blessings against my “troubles.” I visualize them in a boxing ring and if my blessings can kick the ass of my troubles then the “round” goes to blessings.

Since I believe you can create good in your life easier than you can control bad things that happen to even really good people...it seems to me this is a good method for managing the "scorecard" and maintaining a “glass half full" perspective on life.

So this Thanksgiving...when things I am thankful for include my loving family, my cherished friends, the generally good health of both family and friends……I consider myself to be having a winning season.

May this holiday season be a winning season for you as well.
Xoxo