Do you appreciate all your blessings right there in front of you?

Not a huge fan of President Obama, but I came across his book “The Audacity of Hope” at Good Will and for a buck I said what the hell. In the prologue he wrote how he had a “flaw proven to be a chronic restlessness: an inability to appreciate, no matter how well things were going, those blessings that were right in front of me.”

It stuck me that he is so right. Day in and day out, life goes charging on…some days, most days on autopilot. Get up, go to work, go to bed and do it again and again. Like Mr. Obama, I too do not always appreciate the blessings in my life that I should. Like today is my 18th wedding anniversary and to think of all that my marriage has enriched my life is a perfect example of this dynamic. Blessings do come in many forms and I think of these things and the people that have shaped my life.