{"id":2727,"date":"2012-02-20T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:18:27","slug":"can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Can You Give Thanks for a Whole Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A while ago I read about someone who consciously said \u201cthanks\u201d for everything he experienced for an entire day. I thought that was a great idea and decided to do it. I didn\u2019t remember my goal for a few hours after I woke up. When I did, I began to express appreciation for everything I could think of, however small, that was around me. After an hour or so I was distracted and stopped. I began to get frustrated when realizing it was not as easy as it sounds.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that if you decide to give thanks for a whole day it should just happen once you begin. But getting interrupted by telephone calls, being immersed in work, or a million other things can throw you off the thanks course. I tried it a few times and loved it. Saying thanks for EVERYTHING made me feel good. It was fun to look for things to give thanks for. But life gets in the way.<\/p>\n

My most consistent period of thanks came on New Year\u2019s Day. I was invited to an open house several miles away and decided to walk. During the long walk, which included some stops along the way, I said thanks for the girl who walked past me and smiled, for the trees, for seeing a cute baby and every little thing I appreciated. The sky was crystal clear that day and I said thanks for it many times on that walk. Normally I\u2019d notice the sky and then it becomes part of the background of my life. That day my appreciation for it was tenfold!<\/p>\n

As I walked down the street, looking at the sky energized me. My awareness was heightened about how beautiful it was and my gratitude for the sky was off the charts. I was determined to keep up giving thanks but once I got to my friend\u2019s house, gratitude mode was gone in the wave of people I interacted with. I did talk about the awesome sky to several people.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve tried to have a day of giving thanks for everything several times more but couldn\u2019t do it for long. I will keep trying because when I do it, life feels better. I become thankful for the chair I\u2019m sitting on and the fork that carries food to my mouth. I\u2019m thankful for my computer that allows me to write and the coffee I drink. I look for things to give thanks for when I\u2019m in gratitude mode, and find them!<\/p>\n

I highly recommend trying to give thanks for everything and everyone around you for a whole day. Even if you just do it for an hour you\u2019ll enjoy the benefits. The more you give thanks, the more you attract things to be thankful for. I will keep trying to begin the day with thanks and keep on going. If you do it, please share your experience below.
\n***************<\/p>\n

Take the 31 Days of Self-Love Challenge<\/strong><\/a> and get my book, How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways<\/a><\/strong> for free at http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com<\/a><\/strong>. And you can post your loving acts HERE<\/a><\/strong> to reinforce your intention to love yourself. Read my 31 Days of Self-Love Posts HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Please leave comments under my posts so we can stay connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago I read about someone who consciously said \u201cthanks\u201d for everything he experienced for an entire day. I thought that was a great idea and decided to do it. I didn\u2019t remember my goal for a few hours after I woke up. When I did, I began to express appreciation for everything I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[289,36],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice-people-can-finish-first","category-self-love-acceptance","tag-giving-thanks","tag-gratitude"],"yoast_head":"\nCan You Give Thanks for a Whole Day? - Lessons from a Recovering Doormat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can You Give Thanks for a Whole Day? - Lessons from a Recovering Doormat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A while ago I read about someone who consciously said \u201cthanks\u201d for everything he experienced for an entire day. I thought that was a great idea and decided to do it. I didn\u2019t remember my goal for a few hours after I woke up. When I did, I began to express appreciation for everything I…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lessons from a Recovering Doormat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-02-20T17:01:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-01-18T00:18:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/files\/2012\/01\/Hand-300x225.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Daylle Deanna Schwartz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Can You Give Thanks for a Whole Day? - Lessons from a Recovering Doormat","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Can You Give Thanks for a Whole Day? - Lessons from a Recovering Doormat","og_description":"A while ago I read about someone who consciously said \u201cthanks\u201d for everything he experienced for an entire day. I thought that was a great idea and decided to do it. I didn\u2019t remember my goal for a few hours after I woke up. When I did, I began to express appreciation for everything I…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html","og_site_name":"Lessons from a Recovering Doormat","article_published_time":"2012-02-20T17:01:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-01-18T00:18:27+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/files\/2012\/01\/Hand-300x225.jpg"}],"author":"Daylle Deanna Schwartz","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html","name":"Can You Give Thanks for a Whole Day? - Lessons from a Recovering Doormat","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/files\/2012\/01\/Hand-300x225.jpg","datePublished":"2012-02-20T17:01:23+00:00","dateModified":"2012-01-18T00:18:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/#\/schema\/person\/4250884f68a588907744baa491f9df35"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/files\/2012\/01\/Hand-300x225.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/files\/2012\/01\/Hand-300x225.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2012\/02\/can-you-give-thanks-for-a-whole-day-2.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Can You Give Thanks for a Whole Day?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/","name":"Lessons from a Recovering Doormat","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Daylle Deanna Schwartz","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/#\/schema\/person\/4250884f68a588907744baa491f9df35","name":"Daylle Deanna Schwartz","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/83b\/83ba6e1423377712fe408a5fab971bfax96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/83b\/83ba6e1423377712fe408a5fab971bfax96.jpg","caption":"Daylle Deanna Schwartz"},"description":"Daylle Deanna Schwartz is a speaker, self-empowerment counselor, best-selling author of 15 books, including Nice Girls Can Finish First (McGraw-Hill), All Men Are Jerks Until Proven Otherwise and founder of The Self-Love Movement\u2122 where she's giving away her 13th book, How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways, a She's appeared on hundreds of TV and radio shows, including Oprah, Howard Stern, and Good Morning America and has been quoted in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Marie Claire, and Men\u00b9s Health. After being a consummate People Pleaser who felt unworthy of getting her own needs met for many years, Daylle found a path of self-love that enabled her to build her self-esteem and reinvent herself into a dual career. She learned to get taken seriously without being overtly assertive when she became one of the first women to start an independent record label (on a dare!) and learned to play ball nicely and successfully in an industry dominated by men. To help independent musicians empower themselves, Daylle writes music business books for Billboard\/Random House, including the very popular Start & Run Your Own Record Labe and I Don't Need a Record Deal! Daylle's books have been translated into over 10 languages and are popular around the world. She speaks for colleges, organizations and corporations. Through her company, Project Self-Empowerment, Daylle creates programs and materials to help people empower themselves. One goal is to raise the money to self-publish her book, How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways and give it away for free in colleges and through organizations, to give thanks for all her blessings. Daylle uses her writing and speaking to help others find the kind of contentment and empowerment that she has.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/author\/dschwartz"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}