For the past month I have been practicing starting each day with gratitude. I get up and get my coffee and I sit alone, even if it’s just 5 minutes of alone time, it doesn’t matter. I think about my life and how blessed I am. I think about how incredibly lucky I am to live here in California. How blessed I am to have two daughters and how grateful I am to be able to see them grow and become independent, courageous, little people. After my divorce I was so bogged down with negative thoughts and negative interactions that it changed who I was as a person. It made me less vulnerable and more skeptical. But about two months ago I decided to let it all go. I cut ties with that negativity and the negative people that wanted that in their life. I turned my focus to myself and my kids. I decided that life was too short to interact with unhappy people and it was far too short to waste energy on things that didn’t bring me joy.
What I learned is when you start each day with gratitude, you continue to look for good things throughout the day. You continue to be pleasantly surprised and actually find the “happy” in things rather than the negative. You become less critical and less judgmental and when someone acts like a jerk you actually feel sorry for them rather than being angry and irritated with them.
This has nothing to do with this recipe …… but I promise you, this helpful advice and this pumpkin cheesecake will both make you happier in life so scroll down for the recipe!
