Today has been a pretty good day overall. I’m a bit frustrated right now due to kids quarreling and not obeying but I can imagine how Heavenly Father feels with me after what I put him through.
I liked what Pres. Uchtdorf talked about in conference yesterday – gratitude – and how it can help me overcome selfishness and anger. So I thought I’d start a routine of creating a Gratitude list. Here’s to Day 1!
What I’m thankful for today!
- Working on a step of the program
- Playing with the kids
- Talking to Brett about a new website deal
- Talking to the new counselor about recovery
- Staying sober another day
- Taking down the wire fence
- Taking out the garbages
- Getting three ClogOn return checks written
- Getting an email from Ben Nettesheim about PPC
- Being able to refer Russ and hopefully work something out
- Submitting another article to BR at VT
- Getting closer with B Jensen’s site
- Mapping out my month monetarily
- Taking the time to write this stuff out
- Reaching out to my home teaching companion and families to schedule an appointment
- The nice weather
- Trying to talk with B about what the counselor and I talked about
- Automated payment went through for Phil
- UB listed me as a great partner on their website
- We had family night in front of the new Provo Center Street temple (not done yet but Moroni is now on the top)
- The kids got to Facetime with Grandma and Grandpa’s yesterday and today
- B and I had a good talk last night – although I touched on a couple things that made her upset both yesterday and today – didn’t mean to
- Taxes are almost done
- Got a hold of both home teaching families
- Taking the time to work on this list of things I’m grateful for
- C had a good time at baseball practice
- B & C talked about sex a bit during family night
- B making a lunch/dinner for us to go to family night
- B getting to talk with her mom today
- B making me breakfast
- B helping with all the tax stuff and getting that squared away
- B understanding when I was a bit frustrated with the kids
- B meeting me at Walmart
- Going to bed before 10:00 p.m. with B
- B loves me (she wrote that one) 🙂
- I love B!
- B being hopeful for me to get over my addictions
- Playing soccer with C, C and J at BYU in the gym
- That B and I talked about Wi time and how we can limit that without causing too much contention
I’m contemplating doing step 10 here too – listing things I could work on or things that went well (since the gratitude list is sort of this anyway). I won’t do it today but will talk about it more and hopefully add this to my nightly routine.
Hasta manana!
Nate
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