When my friend, Dawn Landau, contacted me to see if I was interested in spreading gratitude all over the blogosphere by joining dozens of bloggers in writing an article about the 50 things we are thankful for, and posting and sharing all at the same time, I was like, “Um, yeah! Count me in!”
The trick though was we had to write our list with a timer running and do so within 10 minutes.
Ready, set, go!
I am thankful for:
- A loving, supportive family
- Beautiful, healthy twins
- Great health
- Getting up everyday and living on purpose as an entrepreneur
- The ability to inspire other entrepreneurs with this blog
- Great friends
- My dog, Sugar
- My mentors
- My advisors
- My investors
- Having the courage to follow my dreams
- My customers
- Having a beautiful house
- Being able to pay the bills
- Having faith
- Not being afraid
- Being able to articulate my thoughts on this blog
- Graduating from Morehouse College–thankful especially for the gifts and announcement cards which were probably customized from sites like https://www.jostens.com/graduation/high-school/announcements.
- Graduating from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill
- The knowledge that I am a creative, spiritual being
- My vision to sell my business for $50 million
- My vision that the concept of my business will become a global, household trend
- All the great PR my business has received
- How well my kids are doing cognitively and physically; especially since they were born three months early and only weighed two pounds
- The many new relationships I’ve formed via social media
- The many cool Facebook groups I’m in
- The two chances I had to audition for Shark Tank
- A new opportunity to be featured on a national TV business reality show (more to come on this soon…hopefully)
- The support I’ve received from friends on my entrepreneurial journey
- The support I’ve received from strangers on my entrepreneurial journey
- The book The Alchemist
- Being inspired by other entrepreneurs I meet
- Being able to spend so much time with my kids and watch them grow, as a work-at-home dad
- Dominating my fantasy football leagues this year (Ha!). Good job I’ve been keeping up with all the latest fantasy football news.
- Being of sound mind
- Living in a community that is safe
- Living in a community that is affordable
- Being able to take my dog to the dog park
- Being able to play affordable golf at a nice course close to home (if I didn’t have that option available, maybe I would have to look for simulators on sale online)
- Being able to walk and carry the bag when I play golf
- Making new friends on the golf course
- Completing a tech startup accelerator
- Having a great printing partner in the U.S.
- Having a great printing partner in the U.K.
- Being a SheKnows and Go Daddy contributor
- Knowing how to hustle to get great PR
- Being reasonably tech savvy
- Being persistent
- Great neighbors
- Great schools for the twins
What are you thankful for?
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What a great list and I agree so much to be thankful for now more than ever!! 🙂
James I’m so grateful that you decided to join this Gratitude event! It’s done so well and each time I read another list, I find myself more humbled. What great energy to share! What a wonderful list you have– so many things to feel happy about and gratitude for! And clearly your getting to be outside… with all that golf! 😉 Thanks again for sharing your list!
Thanks so much for inviting me to participate, Dawn.