Wednesday, February 8, 2012

It is February 2012. Time.is.fast.

The Armitage Family continues to love living in Thailand and traveling the world. Most photos are on Flickr now, as we have too many. Please email us if you want the link.

Recently, we made a list of countries our family has visited in the last few years:

USA
Thailand
Malaysia (Borneo)
New Zealand
Laos
Nepal
England
Indonesia (Bali)
India
France
Italy
Vatican
China (mainland)
Australia
Singapore
Vietnam - Jim
Philippines - Jim
Hong Kong

I would like to keep a record of other countries I have visited:

Spain
Greece
Switzerland
Fiji
Many islands in the Carribean
Mexico
Canada
Bon Aire
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Colombia
Brazil
Peru
Bolivia
Netherlands
Belgium
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Trinidad
Equador



I have decided to do a bit of personal blogging - really only for me.

Reading about something I have known for a long time - the power of positive thinking - I came across a recent TED talk about it. An idea to support this in an active, personal way is stating why you are grateful.

Today, I feel grateful for:

• my incredible family and the love they give to me

• the opportunity given to Isabel to be traveling in Singapore this week with AMIS

• challenge in my job - to figure out what priorities are the most important

• that I am learning how to do things because I believe they are right, not because people will be happy with me

• so many things that it is difficult to put into words

I will challenge myself, to regularly state why I am grateful - and only list 3 things at a time. Perhaps that will nudge me to be focused, concise, and varied in the realization of my state of gratitude.


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