web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Today is Thanksgiving. I try to be thankful every single day of my life. In fact, the last few months, when I lay down to sleep I literally lie there and think about all the things I am thankful about. I am not a religious man, but I suppose this is my version of prayer. Being thankful is a way to put things in perspective ultimately reduce stress for me. In my day to day work, I stress out a lot. I deal with clients asking for things that I think are crazy, customers complaining about this or that, blog comments that I’m shocked came from the fingers of another human being. But when I take some time to reflect, and stack all these things up against all the good things, all those negative stressful things seem smaller. These are the things I am most thankful for: