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Your Thanksgiving Checklist

By ClientWise | November 25, 2010

Celestine Chua is a native of Singapore and the founder of The School of Personal Excellence. She graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2006and secured a position with Procter & Gamble as an assistant brand manager. Two years later, she walked away from the financial security and prestige of P&G...towards her "real purpose", which is "helping people grow and living their best lives." She founded The School of Personal Excellence, which serves as a training ground for individuals who seek to live according to their passions in their personal or

professional lives.

She has compiled a list of 60 things to be grateful for in our lives. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, and as as aid to those of you who need some hints on this day, we offer you the following:

  1. Your parents - For giving birth to you. Because if there is no them, there will not be you.
  2. Your family – For being your closest kin in the world
  3. Your friends – For being your companions in life
  4. Sense of sight – For letting you see the colors of life
  5. Sense of hearing - For letting you hear trickle of rain, the voices of your loved ones, and the harmonious chords of music
  6. Sense of touch - For letting you feel the texture of your clothes, the breeze of the wind, the hands of your loved ones
  7. Sense of smell – For letting you smell scented candles, perfumes, and beautiful flowers in your garden
  8. Sense of taste – For letting you savor the sweetness of fruits, the saltiness of seawater, the sourness of pickles, the bitterness of bitter gourd, and the spiciness of chili
  9. Your speech – For giving you the outlet to express yourself
  10. Your heart – For pumping blood to all the parts of your body every second since you were born; for giving you the ability to feel
  11. Your lungs – For letting you breathe so you can live
  12. Your immune system – For fighting viruses that enter your body. For keeping you in the pink of your health so you can do the things you love.
  13. Your hands – So you can type on your computer, flip the pages of books, and hold the hands of your loved ones
  14. Your legs - For letting you walk, run, swim, play the sports you love, and curl up in the comfort of your seat
  15. Your mind - For the ability to think, to store memories, and to create new solutions
  16. Your good health – For enabling you to do what you want to do and for what you’re about to do in the future
  17. Your school - For providing an environment conducive to learning and growing
  18. Your teachers – For their dedication and for passing down knowledge to you
  19. Tears – For helping you express your deepest emotions
  20. Disappointment - So you know the things that matter to you most
  21. Fears – So you know your opportunities for growth
  22. Pain – For you to become a stronger person
  23. Sadness – For you to appreciate the spectrum of human emotions
  24. Happiness – For you to soak in the beauty of life
  25. The Sun - For bringing in light and beauty to this world
  26. Sunset – For a beautiful sight to end the day
  27. Moon and Stars - For brightening up our night sky
  28. Sunrise - For a beautiful sight to start the morning
  29. Rain – For cooling you when it gets too warm and for making it comfy to sleep in on weekends
  30. Snow – For making winter even more beautiful
  31. 31. Rainbows – For a beautiful sight to look forward to after rain
  32. Oxygen - For making life possible
  33. The earth – For creating the environment for life to begin
  34. Mother Nature - For covering our world in beauty
  35. Animals – For adding to the diversity of life
  36. Internet - For connecting you and me despite the physical space between us
  37. Transport - For making it easier to commute from one place to another
  38. Mobile phones – For making it easy to stay in touch with others
  39. Computers – For making our lives more effective and efficient
  40. Technology – For making impossible things possible
  41. Movies – For providing a source of entertainment
  42. Books – For adding wisdom into your life
  43. Blogs – For connecting you with other like-minded people
  44. Shoes – For protecting your feet when you are out
  45. Time – For a system to organize yourself and keep track of activities
  46. Your job – For giving you a source of living and for being a medium where you can add value to the world
  47. Music - For lifting your spirits when you’re down and for filling your life with more love
  48. Your bed - For you to sleep comfortably in every night
  49. Your home - For a place you can call home
  50. Your soul mate – For being the one who understands everything you’re going through
  51. Your best friends – For being there for you whenever you need them
  52. Your enemies – For helping you uncover your blind spots so you can become a better person
  53. Kind strangers – For brightening up your days when you least expect it
  54. Your mistakes - For helping you to improve and become better
  55. Heartbreaks - For helping you mature and become a better person
  56. Laughter - For serenading your life with joy
  57. Love - For letting you feel what it means to truly be alive
  58. Life’s challenges - For helping you grow and become who you are
  59. Life - For giving you the chance to experience all that you’re experiencing, and will be experiencing in time to come
  60. You. For being who you are and touching the world with your presence.

Thank you to Celestine Chua for this list! Thank you to all of you for your support! Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

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