100 Things To Be Thankful For in Your Life

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.