So Much To Be Thankful For! 😄Day Five

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
- Friedrich Nietzsche -

Index: _Day1 | _Day2 | _Day3 | _Day4 | _Day5 | _Day6 | _Day7

Day Five:

Today, I am thankful for being tired.

I am tired because I am working hard. I'm working hard because I have an amazing contract to work on. I have an amazing contract to work on because Jesus/God brought my name to the mind of a former colleague from about ten years ago. For all of this, I am tremendously grateful.

Dog Tired
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I'm grateful for the people I'm working with.

My old colleague contacted me out of the blue to ask if I had time to commit to this task. Although there was a long delay between first hearing about the possibility of this work and when I was actually able to begin, it all ultimately fell into place and began in time to rescue me from financial disaster.

We are a small team of five, collaborating to produce a world-class software and graphical user interface solution for a game-changing piece of laboratory equipment. Everyone on the team has a complementary skill set, and we all work together very well. This makes for pleasant days and rapid progress.

Thankful to be on a great team.
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I am thankful for progress on the contract.

For about a month, we've collaborated over the internet. This week, we've had a couple of days of working together in the same office, The integration of our work is going very well so far.

Grateful to be busy working.
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Work is a real blessing, and even more so when it has the superb combination of excellent compensation, mind-stretching new things to learn, and ideal application of my existing mad skillz that my present engagement has.

Today was a very long, demanding day. I am very tired, and I thank Jesus my God for all of it.

My nominees for the positivity challenge are:

After reading my entries, several have expressed interest in this challenge, and so today I nominate:

@creatr, @dreemsteem, @ablaze

IF, for whatever reason, you do not care to participate, no problem. No pressure. No worries.

The rules:

Write a post about something you have to be postive about today - this could be anything from being thankful for your current situation, someone being nice to you, being thankful for your friends and family, or even being thankful for the oppurtunity you have been given here on Steemit - just keep it positive :)
Do this for 7 days in a row if you get nominated
Mention three people who should do this on each day.
Tag it with #7daypositivitychallenge and include these rules at the bottom of your post
Include a picture of something positive (related to your story if possible.

Note: You can find the original challenge post here:

"7 Day Positivity Challenge" by @conradt

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