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\"hanging<\/a>The other day, I looked at my hanging planters on my back deck. I had just hung them a few days before, succumbing to peer pressure, I suppose.\u00a0 Everybody in my new building seems to have something green and beautiful in their private outdoor space.\u00a0 As the building\u2019s CGO (Chief Gardening Officer) Paula told me when I came home with the pre-wired baskets from Home Depot,\u00a0 \u201cI knew it was just a matter of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t spent as much time as I thought sitting out back, sipping iced tea and reading, but, since I couldn\u2019t take out my garbage or run to my car without seeing my small floral display, I was noticing the flowers were starting to droop. I filled up my new long-spouted green plastic watering can, waited until early evening and gave them a good soaking.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the next day, the two red geranium plants and the yellow moss roses perked up.\u00a0 They seemed happy. They had revived.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I thought about this. How nice it must be to have such simple needs that a small change can have such a dramatic affect on you; can bring you back to life.\u00a0 Or, maybe it\u2019s not about having simple<\/i> needs so much as a question of knowing what affects you, individually, the strongest.<\/p>\n

I thought about things that lift my mood or make me feel more alive.\u00a0 I asked myself what types of things would give me the same feeling a plant would have sitting in the sunshine after getting its roots gently soaked.<\/p>\n

Walking away from a source of stress can help — sometimes.\u00a0 Sometimes, walking away physically actually makes my mental preoccupation stronger.<\/p>\n

Taking a shower can often re-set my mood. I think it\u2019s so sensually engaging that it keeps my mind in the present moment.<\/p>\n

Laughter and humor often brings me new energy.\u00a0 Being surprised by something, or taken off guard by a comment or quip, can act as a little reminder that I don\u2019t have everything figured out and that there are opportunities every day to start fresh.<\/p>\n

Having a long conversation with Lin or another good friend can definitely uplift my state.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the content of any particular conversation so much as the feeling that we have a bond.\u00a0 We know each other very well and accept our differences.<\/p>\n

I got to thinking about the different things that revive<\/i> me and noticed how similar my examples were to my grateful dozen<\/i><\/b><\/a>, key themes of things where I notice feeling gratitude naturally.\u00a0 I think every person should develop their own grateful dozen<\/i>.\u00a0 My list includes things like a sense of belonging, or making a discovery in my neighborhood, or beauty.<\/p>\n

I guess making a habit of feeling grateful is like getting watered regularly, like getting replenished and revived at the right times.<\/p>\n

Remembering to refer back to my Grateful Dozen<\/i><\/b><\/a> themes is no small thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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