Day 1: Count Your Blessings

The first step to a better life is to first count the blessings you already have. Here is things that I am greatful for. Feel free to make your own list:

1. Loving wife who is also my best friend, and with whom I can talk to about anything, share moments of joy as well frustrating tears, and who also challenges me to be the best I can be, and with whom I look forward to spend the rest of my life with.
2. Adourable dogs whom I can hug and kiss at night, knowing that they love me unconditionally, regardless of how my day went or how many failures or successes I had.
3. Caring parents in law who willingly give of themselves in order to create a nurturing and functional homelife, giving me the time to focus on the things I hardly had time for in the past.
4. A roof over my head where I can sleep each night protected from wind, rain and cold nights.
5. A car to travel to where I need to be, whether it is to go to work or returning to my loved ones.
6. A job from which I earn a salary to provide for my family.
7. Opportunities to move my career closer to my hearts desire.
8. Brain capacity to grow and learn new things every single day.
9. The joy of having good memories of loved ones and the blessing of forgetting the bad ones.
10. The ability to physically survive regardless of my mental state, even when I believe I cannot go on another day, and yet... I do.
11. The ability to forgive myself for not living up to my own standards, for in forgiving myself I forgive others.