365 Days of Thanksgiving: Day 122 of Thanksgiving...

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Day 122 of Thanksgiving...

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Today I am so very Thankful for Diligence! All of my life I have heard that if you do anything at all, do it with due diligence. Dictionary.com defines it as constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind. For years I just could not get it - why...what does this mean. Now looking back I realize that most of the good experiences in my life have involved Diligence! Not always what I want to do but what I know that I must do. Marriage, having babies, buying a house, keeping a job or getting one for that matter, all require an earnest amount of diligence. I am not always an eager go getter and many times I give up because things just seem too hard - that is a quality I am not proud of and I am working hard to get away from that. You could say that I am using diligence to learn to be diligent!

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

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1/364 For years I worked in an office at a desk and one of the company supplied tools was a desk calendar. It was the kind with one page for each day and at the end of the day, that page would be torn off. In the bottom right corner of the page were two numbers with a slash between them. I was fascinated with these numbers - they represented the numerical place that day held in the 365 days of the year. Simple math but awesome to me. For the purpose of this blog I will do my best to use that representation to note 365 Days of Thanksgiving. I have tried this many times in journals but have always failed and let it fall by the wayside. I am hoping by creating this blog and posting it on FaceBook that I will have the organization and forethought to keep it going. I also hope this practice will allow me to keep things in perspective and realize the true joy in life and focus on that each and every day. So hear goes.....