100 Things I Am Grateful For This Thanksgiving
Gratitude is the key to a happy Thanksgiving! So, join me in reflecting on the year’s blessings with my list of 100 things to be thankful for.
I have a lot to be grateful for this year. The last two years have been an emotional roller coaster for me. I graduated with my Master’s Degree, started a new job, relaunched the blog, and learned how to better care for myself. I don’t want to dive too deep into how the pandemic affected me, but let’s say it had its ups and downs.
Tomorrow, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, I want to encourage you to consider everything you have to be grateful for this year. It can be as small as breathing in a fresh cup of coffee daily before work. Although most people won’t celebrate this holiday due to the adverse history, many families do.
So, for those of you who are celebrating Thanksgiving, I encourage you to take time to be thankful and to practice gratitude after the long two years we’ve all had. I know I am, so I’m sharing this list of everything I am grateful for this year (which comes directly from my bullet journal!)
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Everything I Am Grateful For
- Not having a migraine today
- Not Having any major medical illnesses
- To not be sick
- Working limbs
- Have a healthy and functioning immune system
- To have started working out
- Have doctors and therapists who genuinely care about me
- I do not feel depressed 24/7 anymore.
- Learning how to improve my health
- I have a family who helps care for me when I’m sick
- Medicine during Flu Season
- Not having COVID-19
- To have a well-paying job
- I have started my side gig
- My success in my chosen career
- The success I had so far on the blog
- Blogging and writing community
- Well-educated
- I can pursue my dreams.
- Loving and caring boyfriend
- My family and friends
- Bachelor Nation
- Every movie/television streaming platform
- Persona 5 and Persona 5 Strikers
- PlayStation
- In-Laws
- Self-Improvement Journey
- How I’ve grown since last year
- The sun
- Warm weather
- Fresh air
- To be able to go out again
- Good night’s rest
- Finding myself again
- Practicing self-care and love
- Social Media
- SEX
- Spotify Podcasts
- Youtube
- Halloween 2021
- My College Degrees
- Best Friends
- Laughter
- Good times
- Good boss
- Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies
- Puppy and cat videos
- Silly TikTok dances
- Ed Sheeran’s Album
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Lionel Hampton
- Restaurants with great food and drinks
- Chocolate
- The holiday season
- Gift-giving and receiving
- Santa Claus
- The beginning of a new month
- Alcohol
- New beginnings
- Creative mindset
- Clothes that fit on my back
- New opportunities
- Comedy movies
- Chips Ahoy and Oreos
- Have an air conditioner
- Learning Spanish
- A fashionable wardrobe selection
- Money
- To be alive
- Nail and makeup techs/professionals
- Small business friends
- Making new friends
- Nurses and medical staff
- Bleach and detergent
- Good-scented perfumes and colognes
- Thrift stores
- Farmer’s markets
- Food festivals
- Concerts
- Having good conversations
- My mentors
- Goodnight kisses
- My blog, riyahspeaks.com
- Grammarly
- Seasonal changes
- The color in the wind
- Halloween and Christmas
- Having a heart
- Empathy
- Comfortable bed
- Public transportation
- Uber and Lyft
- Free wifi
- Canva Design
- Childhood memories
- Pumpkin patches
- Flowers
- Times Square
- Harry Potter Store
- Being short
- Emily Dickinson and Toni Morrison Books
How To Practice Gratitude This Thanksgiving
I hope you enjoyed this list of everything I am grateful for this Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is about spending time with loved ones and showing them how much you appreciate them and the world around you. I’m sure many of us have a lot to be grateful for this year since it’s the first time in 2 years that we get to be together at the dinner table.
If you want to start practicing gratitude outside of Thanksgiving, I recommend trying these methods.
- Gratitude Jar
- Gratitude Journal
- Gratitude List
- Prayer
- Saying Thank You
Learn more about how to practice gratitude on Thanksgiving in my guest post.
What are you grateful for this year? Let me know in the comments below.
OMG! I love this. I definitely want to create a similar post. A gratitude list like this shows us how fortunate we all actually are in many ways to have so much to be grateful for. Great post!
Desiree,
GO FOR IT! I think everyone should create a few gratitude lists in their life. Thanks for reading.
Which PlayStation are you grateful for? PS 1-3 would be my choice. PS4 was uninspiring and I’m not even going to bother with the PS5. I’m grateful for my neurologist who referred me to the specialist that lead to getting four diagnoses
Hello,
I’m grateful for all of them. I was fortunate enough to be able to play all of them growing up. Right now, I have the PS4, and I want the PS5 only for virtual reality games. I’m glad you were able to find a good neurologist! That is a great thing to be thankful for.
Fantastic list! It is always nice to stop and take a moment to think about everything you have to be appreciative for!
Luna,
I completely agree! Especially after everything we’ve been through.
It is great that you are thankful for so much. Puppy and cat videos are always cute,
I love you list! I can appreciate so much on it especially “the color in the wind” ❤️
great list! and I like the idea. I didn’t actually closely read your list because I want to challenge myself with writing 100 things I am grateful for. I often practice gratitude in various ways (like 8 things I am grateful for today every day of the week without any repetitions, gratitude journal and last but not least leaving a grateful review to any place I visited and like) but it has never been that grand.
Thankyou for your blog and your post! I loved it and found it to be really useful
My husband and I were talking on Thanksgiving about Christmas gifts and what to get our friends and family. He mentioned things people need and I stopped to realize I don’t actually need anything. I have everything I need already, and that is something I am extremely grateful for. To not have any immediate needs that I cannot take care of myself. This was a really deep moment for me, because it hasn’t always been that way, but I’m beyond grateful it is now.
Erica,
Thanks for sharing this with me. Sometimes I feel like we take the world for granted until we sit and start thinking about it. There is not much that I need either and so I am also grateful for that. I hope you and your husband had a lovely Thanksgiving.
I love this! Gratitude is so important!
Erin,
Thank you!