Gratitude isn’t just the feeling people get after something good happens to them. It’s a way of thinking that takes practice and hard work to make it part of their everyday behavior. It’s often easy to forget many of the little things we have to be grateful for in our lives, but it’s important not to take anything for granted. To help, we’ve made a list of 100 things to be thankful for that you can use to spark your own gratitude. Read below for inspiration and tips on how to practice gratitude in your own life and, once inspired, send a custom thank you cards to honor, recognize, and celebrate those important to you. Consider designing a card with your name, your photo, or an appealing style and ordering enough to send on any upcoming occasion. With Shutterfly, it’s easy to make personalized cards unique to you.
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- Why Should You Make a Thankful List?
- List Of Things To Be Thankful For
- How to Find Things To Be Grateful For
- What Are You Thankful For?
Why Should You Make a Thankful List?
Lists of things to be thankful for help remind us just how many good things we have in our lives. This is especially important during times where it feels like many things are going wrong. Thankful lists can consist of big things (like your home or job) to little things (like having an abnormally short commute to work). These lists can be made in your existing gratitude journal, on a normal notepad, or even on the napkin of your daily coffee. The most important part of these lists it to remind you how much you have to be thankful for, so you shouldn’t stress on doing them the “right” or “wrong” way.
List Of Things To Be Thankful For
The following 100 things to be thankful for are only the tip of the icebergs. There’s an infinite amount of things in which someone can find gratitude, but this list was made with the intention to give you inspiration to find them for yourself.
Things To Be Thankful For In Life
From family, to your first house, to the transportation you have to take you to your job– this list is made up of all the “big” things we have to be grateful for.
Your family- Close friends
- Good health
- Your home
- Your job
- Healthy food
- Your education
- Your pets
- A good night’s sleep
- The seasons
- Financial savings
- Weekends
- Fresh air
- Transportation
- Clean water
- Technology
- A good book
- Art
- Teachers
- Modern healthcare
- Music
- Graduations
- Colors
- Giving gifts
- Receiving gifts
Funny Things To Be Thankful For
This list is as funny as it is true. Whether it’s the appreciation for your crazy, mismatched socks or the sound your TV makes when it turns on– sometimes it’s the comically small things that make us happy.
- Indoor plumbing
- Food delivery services
- Wi-Fi
- Naturally missing every crack in the pavement
- Happy hours
- Netflix
- Waking up seconds before your alarm
- Fuzzy socks
- Deodorant
- The ability to Google any question
- Toilet paper
- Duct tape
- Good hair days
- Your celebrity crush
- The five second rule
- Bacon
- Fortune cookies with perfectly timed fortunes
- Cat videos
- Clothes fresh out of the dryer
- Inside jokes
- GPS
- Auto save
- Spellcheck
- Chapstick
- Getting everyone to smile in the family photo at the same time
Things To Be Thankful For Thanksgiving
In the season of thanks and gratitude, it’s important to take the time to reflect on things you might regularly take for granted. Find more inspiration with our Thanksgiving greetings, and you can always write about what you’re thankful for in a Thanksgiving card sent to loved ones. We’ve listed a few things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving here:
- Holidays with family (or friends)
- A good meal
- A comfy couch or chair
- Thank you notes
- Your favorite Thanksgiving side dish
- Freedom of religion
- Working with your hands
- Unconditional love
- Uncontrollable laughter
- Teachers who don’t give homework on Thanksgiving break
- Cake
- Road trips
- Hot Showers
- The smell of freshly baked cookies
- Learning from unique cultures or traditions
- Good neighbors
- Seeing old friends
- Old photographs
- Grandparents
- Sit-down dinners
- A nice cup of hot chocolate
- Fun family traditions
- Mutual respect
- Finally getting to wear your favorite sweater
- Not being the turkey
Unique Things To Be Thankful For
Everyone has a unique set of things, people, or memories that they’re grateful for, even if they don’t often think of them, like the examples below:
- Literacy
- Time
- Successfully making a new recipe
- Campfires
- Pain, and the lessons learned from it
- Rainbows
- Diversity
- Challenges
- Choices
- Rain boots and puddles to jump in
- Forgiveness
- Driving and getting nothing but green lights
- Comfortable shoes
- Checking something off your to-do list
- Positive feedback
- Naptime
- Random bursts of inspiration
- The scale of the universe
- Heartfelt apologies
- Long, late night conversations
- Farmers markets
- Blowing bubbles
- Fresh, warm sheets on your bed
- Seeing something from a new angle
- Your favorite memories
How to Find Things To Be Grateful For
Are you looking for ways to practice gratitude and gratefulness? If so, we can help. There’s an endless amount of opportunity to give thanks more often in day to day life. We’ve outlined a few different methods of practicing gratitude for you below:
Start a Gratitude Journal
Gratitude journals are great ways to make thankfulness an every day (or at least weekly) routine. From written prompts, to organized lists of things to be thankful for, to little doodles that make you happy– these journals can be anything you want. For help getting started on yours, visit our resource on how to start a gratitude journal.
Find Daily Gratitude Quotes
Make a calendar with daily, weekly, or monthly gratitude quotes you want to put into practice. Quotes are great resources to inspire us and help us reflect on the good in life. Looking for the perfect quotes to add to your collection? Look to our resources below:
Send Thank You Cards
Whether it’s for a birthday gift, Christmas present, graduation gift, or for something they helped you with, thank you cards make a big impact. Not only do they let the other person know how much they’re appreciated, but they also help you practice gratitude.
What Are You Thankful For?
Did this list of 100 things to be thankful for resonate with you? Did you think of things you’re grateful for that aren’t on this list? If so, what are the three things you’re thankful for the most? Share them with us below!
