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Life "delivers" change, rather you're prepared or not, and on board or not.  Change Happens. "Nothing remains the same" is often quoted. Some don't embrace change well, and for some it can be very overwhelming.  Yet, whatever the emotions, and the concerns attached, change doesn't come along and ask for your permission to visit.


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As a woman of Faith and one who exercises Gratitude Daily, it has been the recipe that has allowed me to rob the "Thief Named Regret".  My heart is to share with others some ways to Exercise Gratitude.  The question often asked, "Donyale, how can I exercise Gratitude Daily, when some days are not so great?"



First, before we continue allow me to state;
I do not offer answers, I share a perspective.  If only it was as easy as a few steps, or five ways to this, and 10 steps to follow, we would all gladly sign up to that blueprint.  The truth, from my view, is that  "No One Said Easy" so we may never master, but we continue to "exercise" Gratitude daily.  "Not Just Mountains, but Moments is the Focus "the impact of embracing a new day, doing what we can do and not allowing worry about what tomorrow may hold, to steal from the gift of the life we have right now, this day. 


Embracing "No One Promised Us that Tomorrow will look the same as Today" that alone can allow for us to embrace "fully" what this day offers and becomes "an aid" in the words that we choose to deliver to others and in the actions we choose to take. 


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The road behind offers us, an opportunity to consider the lessons from our experiences, if we are open to listening, to reflecting, and to consider who we were in those moments, what role did we play. Beautiful includes a heart with the intent to become better, to do better, to decide within what is "priceless and precious" this day and what can we carry forward for the road ahead.  Beautiful is recognizing what is really important to us?!


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Gratitude
Gratitude is a word that means so much more than "appreciation",  Gratitude is an action, when exercising daily, it can become a reflex, and it flows into the lives of those around us, even our silence can offer Peace.


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When I consider the noise around me or the challenges that knock on my door, I found that Beautiful can be located wherever I place my Focus.  Beautiful is when I begin my day focused on that I awaken to having a new day, a new page,  the gift of life and loved ones who surround my life.  That is a blessing.  I reflect on all the things that are so easy to take for granted. I embrace and my heart is tattooed with precious moments and memories of love ones that shared a space, that shared a season along my journey, that alone travels with me daily, and for all of this, I AM GRATEFUL.



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Some like to close there day in reflection and some begin the day with reflection,  "Exercising Gratitude is when you intentionally live recognizing what is important to you, important to your heart.  It's so easy to get wrapped up by Noise, by Distractions, including those who can trigger negative emotions or thoughts by their words or actions.  


Life is short
Life is precious
Life is priceless
​Life is a gift that only "we" can decide individually on how to "spend" it. 


Those words hold so much truth at least for me, and they are really so much more than just words...
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We all hear slogans, popular quotes or words, but when you stop and consider the value, the truth behind them, reflecting on what they mean in your life,  it puts many things in Perspective.  

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In closing, 

It's important to know our value, to maintain our peace, to change what we can and let of those things we can't change.  

Make a decision to live beyond "yourself", treasures are sometimes hidden and delivered to those who live beyond themselves, who choose to Plant Seeds of Gratitude
​in the lives of others while "Exercising Gratitude" in their own life. 

~ THIS IS SOMETHING NEW ~

A New Day offers an opportunity to let go of yesterday, anything that is a weight, or a burden.  Carry with you the lessons to travel alongside as you hope for many tomorrows.

A New Day offers an opportunity "to decide" what you have "this day" and not be robbed of what you don't.

No One Said Easy but we have to decide how to receive a "New Day".  Life's journey offers each of us an opportunity to "decide" how to live each day and how to celebrate, cherish those who surround our life along the way.

~ Always a Choice ~

Not What They Say
A Choice on how you choose to travel this journey "every single day"

"Moments not just Mountains"

"Making Gratitude Contagious" is always the intent 

These questions come up often and I'm Grateful.  I'm a visual person and I love words and I thought I would put together a Video demonstrating and Answering those questions.

Thank you for the support and for being here and connecting in the work of this garden.  Whatever you're part it is appreciated, it's everyone who is connected doing a little and together we are all "Making Gratitude Contagious"

Hugs,
​Donyale

ATTRIBUTES of AN EAGLE


AN EAGLE

Have you ever Considered the Attributes of An Eagle?

THEY ARE MASTER FLIERS
A Master flyer represents to me knowing when to Soar and when to Fly Higher to Rise Above the Storm


THEY FLY ALONE AND LIVE ON HIGHER GROUND
I would use the word "Leader" not a Follower, always Focused on reaching Higher Ground


EAGLES ARE EXTREMELY BOLD, COURAGEOUS, MAJESTIC AND POWERFUL
This speaks for itself!


EAGLES ARE VERY PATIENT
I see this as having Vision with a Destination in Sight, which includes a Quiet Wisdom of recognizing and knowing that Patience is a REQUIRED Attribute to Move Along the Journey.



From my heart to yours: 
Like the Eagle, we Find the Strength within, we Have Vision, we Seek Purpose, we Stay Focused on the Destination in Sight.  One area that I've had to learn and continually PRESS FORWARD in is to Get Going, Be a Doer, Be Consistent and CONTINUE to MOVE FORWARD.                                                                           


From my Perspective:
The Boats to turn back have been burned, there is no retreat, we go higher or we choose to retreat. Always a Choice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 

Watching this show, competing with Sugars, this moment touched me and it was a reminder WHY the work of "Making Gratitude Contagious" 

​"Makes a Difference" in so many lives including my own


Take a Moment to Check it Out:​

​Thank you for connecting.  Thank you for Planting Seeds with Journey HBBA, anything you have done and are doing is planting a seed. Beautiful is knowing that Seeds planted has the potential to grow into something Beautiful.

To join in the work...Eagle Call are the Resources that allow us daily to Plant Seeds of Gratitude into the life of someone else.   The only requirement is to find what fits your heart, to simply "Get In Where You Fit It". 

Thank you for traveling this Unfamiliar Path with Me...
I choose to take the reigns of every single day, every single moment, no matter what I feel.  My emotions have to get on board or they will be carried in my Truth, making the most of this New Day, New Page.  

​When you live Knowing Your Why....
​You no longer focus on the "noise" or "distractions"

The Why is the #StoriesBehindtheSmile
The Work is #PlantingSeedsofGratitude
From a Heart that Knows #GratitudeRobsRegret

Does Gratitude Make Problems Disappear?!

Does Gratitude Make Problems Disappear?!

If only it was that simple...

When I share posts filled with images and words, it is intentional.  Sharing with a purpose.  I'm no different, the journey presents challenges, some days are heavier than others.  My truth is that I choose to take the "reigns" and I choose discipline on where my thoughts are going to travel, it's not magic and it doesn't happen instantly, it's an exercise.

It's an exercise...

The process is, I wake and I Thank God for a New Day and then I take time to feed my spirit which means "for me" reading the word, watching a podcast, reading a chapter from a favorite book, or reflecting on "I have a new day, which offers opportunity".  Opportunity to make a phone call to loved ones, mail cards with photos or words that mean something "to the recipient", not about me, about them.

Listening, not multi-tasking but listening when a loved one calls, or my sons are engaged in sharing something that is important to them, a post, a movie clip, a song, a thought who knows but a "discipline" to stop and engage, not while thinking on what needs to be done or while doing something else but making the effort "to stop" listen and engage.

​An Exercise

​Does Gratitude Make Problems Disappear?!

The journey is not magic, it requires effort, a discipline with emotions.  My theory is that if my anger, my rage, loudness could change those areas that are challenging in my life, then I would consider the effort, but I've traveled to many miles and know those areas are only distractions.  Distractions take away our focus and we can miss those priceless, precious memories that will remain with us for a lifetime.

Always a choice...

​Does Gratitude Make Problems Disappear?!

Problems, Challenges are just that, a moment that presents our attention.  Does anything take that away...probably not.  So the real question in my heart, it is not the problem, the challenge, the disappointment, the hurt that takes away a problem, it is my perspective that will determine how "I choose to confront it, how I choose to walk through it, how I choose to look at it, to look at it, to look at it but to now allow it to reside within"

Even if I table it, pray about it, reflect on it, the discipline is not to allow it to "reside within".  

I choose to Exercise, to Exercise Gratitude of what I possess "right now, in this single moment" that is my focus and if I can' appreciate that, I remind myself, I have life and someone was not afforded that this morning.

Gratitude is more than a word, it is an action

Thank you for being here.  Thank you for connecting and joining with me in #PlantingSeedsof Gratitude 

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#MakingGratitudeContagious is always the intent 

"Walking while Talking"
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​"How Pursuit is attached to Why and Intent" 

Thank you for spending a moment, for investing your precious commodity called "Time" It is appreciated.  Together we are #PlantingSeedsofGratitude and From a Heart that Knows #GratitudeRobsRegret

#TakeaMomentwithDonyale