52 Good Things from 2020
The 14th year of my annual gratitude practice, now spanning 730 good things.
What a year for gratitude! 2020 was the COVID year. (Or was it the first of the two COVID years, plural?) In any case, there were headwinds!
And yet, I have plenty of gratitude. I mean, obviously, it was a horrific year. But I’m taking a Stoic approach — control what I can control.
When I started this gratitude practice in 2007, I was stressed, trying to figure out how to be an entrepreneur and not at all confident that I was on a path that would work out. So I started trying to balance that stress and worry by collecting things that happened to me that I was grateful for, aiming for 52 of these per year. These good things are a measure of my life’s direction.
I committed to myself that if I couldn’t find an honest 52 that I’d give up my entrepreneurial dreams. (So far I haven’t had to do that.)
Here are my prior lists:
2015–2019, 2013–15, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007.
Managing Shelter-in-place. Knock on wood.
Well, let’s just start with the obvious. Sarah and I were sheltered, for the most part, in our NYC apartment with our dog, Eloise.
- Health. No one in my immediate family caught the virus. We all kept our jobs. There were no family tensions about how to stay safe. Knock on wood. I hope this…
