My TROML Journals are a simple bound composition notebook that I buy for less than a dollar at you know where. They date back to September 3rd, 2000. My current one is No. 141. As I fill up one and transition to another, this is always an opportunity to improve the patented TROML Journal Process. Some things are static like numbering the pages and creating a Table of Contents. Other things are dynamic like the content of the journals, how I capture inspirational moments and how they are digested to improve my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.
Over the years the TROML Journal Process has become very easy to use, almost as easy as having a conversation with God or a good friend. Indeed, the TROML Process is all about having a conversation with oneself and reconnecting to the meaningful and powerful innate abilities that we all possess as human beings. Part of the patented TROML Journal Process is 100% electronic, present on my cell phone though my hardcopy Journal No. 141 is never very far away.
One of the things that is electronic and is archived and started anew when I transition to a new hardcopy TROML Journal is my Gratitude or Thankful For List. When a grateful thought pops into my head I like to capture it to insure my TROML Perspective is always one of gratitude at first thought. To insure I actively work on an “Attitude of Gratitude” once a week I intensely document three thoughts of gratitude every hour, on the hour, plus upon awakening and retiring. For a recent day that was 17 times 3 or 51 thoughts of gratitude.
Here they are:
Today, as I awake, I am grateful to be alive, to wake up to another day.
Today, as I awake, I am grateful for dreams, to finally realize my mental capacity is to be used like a computer, only when needed as directed by My Spirit (my life is not directed by Spam, I am not Spam).
Today, as I awake, I am grateful for having visited with a dear friend this past weekend.
Today at 8 am, I am grateful for the love of my first wife who I was married to for over 25 years.
Today, at 8 am, I am grateful for being a father to two awesome sons.
Today, at 8 am, I am grateful for this abstinent breakfast of sugar-free oatmeal.
Today at 9 am, I am grateful for Yogi & his yoga class.
Today at 9 am, I am grateful to be able to read a Bible verse at the YMCA.
Today at 9 am, I am grateful to be inspired by the Spirit of the Lord, this is Liberty, this is Freedom!
Today at 10 am, I am grateful for McDonald’s & consuming a sugar free iced coffee.
Today at 10 am, I am grateful for a feeling of euphoria from yoga class.
Today at 10 am, I am grateful for working the ACA Twelve Steps with a Co-Traveler in recovery.
Today at 11 am, I am grateful for the ACA 12 Step recovery process.
Today at 11 am, I am grateful to be an adult child of an alcoholic in ACA recovery.
Today at 11 am, I am grateful to be a compulsive overeater & sugar addict.
Today at Noon, I am grateful for being able to grocery shopping at Fresh Market.
Today at Noon, I am grateful for being able to grocery shopping at Publix
Today at Noon, I am grateful for being alive & to begin to feel a pain of hunger.
Today at 1 pm, I am grateful for my home, my creative condo.
Today at 1 pm, I am grateful for God & being close to Him, & following His will for me in life.
Today at 1 pm, I am grateful for knowing that the next 10 waking hours of my life will be the absolute best time of my life, absolutely, positively, without a doubt.
Today at 2 pm, I am grateful for knowing that I am loved by God, my family & friends.
Today at 2 pm, I am grateful to have a place to call home & to be a home in my home today.
Today at 2 pm, I am grateful for being with and enjoying time with a dear friend this past weekend.
Today at 3 pm, I am grateful for all the wonderful people, my new friends, which God continues to bring into my life.
Today at 3 pm. I am grateful to feel the love, acceptance & compassion of an abstinent life which is a much better feeling than the loneliness, despair and tragedy of compulsively overeating and being actively addicted to sugar.
Today, at 3 pm, I am grateful for this attitude of gratefulness & thankfulness that has opened my mind & heart to new possibilities in my life.
Today, at 4 pm, I am grateful for my friends who came over to play tennis.
Today at 4 pm, I am grateful to see my friends and neighbors, one who is recovering well from knee surgery.
Today at 4 pm, I am grateful to write about the Spirit of Olympic Golf.
Today at 5 pm, I am grateful not to be obsessing about food.
Today at 5 pm, I am grateful for my creative condo, a place where I am inspired to write about golf & life.
Today at 5 pm I am grateful for the love of my father & mother through which God created me!
Today at 6 pm, I am grateful for being alive & enjoying this day.
Today at 6 pm, I am grateful for having work to do & feeling a sense of accomplishment.
Today at 6 pm, I am grateful for growing up with siblings and good childhood friends.
Today at 7 pm, I am grateful for my hometown & experiencing a sense of community growing up.
Today at 7 pm, I am grateful for the education I received, as much for what I learned as for how I learned to keep learning my whole life through.
Today at 7 pm, I am grateful for my three abstinent & healthy meals with nothing in between or consuming any added sugar.
Today at 8 pm, I am grateful to visit the beach and be in awe of the vastness of the ocean.
Today at 8 pm, I am grateful to hear the surf crashing in and quietly receding out.
Today at 8 pm I am grateful to experience a sense of overwhelming peace, joy & freedom in my life.
Today at 9 pm, I am grateful for my neighbors.
Today at 9 pm, I am grateful to be home in my creative condo.
Today at 9 pm I am grateful for my relationship with God, more secure, compassionate & loving than ever before.
Today at 10 pm, I am grateful for being abstinent, not overeating compulsively or eating sugar.
Today at 10 pm, I am grateful that I have had a full day and am starting to feel tired & sleepy.
Today at 10 pm, I am grateful for all the people I interacted with today that made me think, made me laugh and taught me something about life.
Today, as I retire I am grateful to have walked with God throughout the day with no need to make amends to anyone, including myself.
Today, as I retire I cherish this day, No. 20,477 of my life & No. 5,521 of TROML.
Today, as I retire, I pray & meditate to start a new day with a restful & restorative sleep.
Have a grateful TROML Day today!
Your Personal Revivalist,
Anonymous Andy
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