Who is Rey?
Hi! Thank you again for visiting Rey of Gratitude! So, who am I and what is this all about? Well, I am a born and raised Kansan who through a series of life changing events decided to make an active change in not only how I was living but how I was THINKING! Through the amazing support of family and friends (new and old) I began taking a serious look into myself and also at the image of the world I had created. I left my job, took a month to travel, living out of my car and gained a powerful new perspective on life. The realization I came to: your world is exactly what you make of it! I started changing the way I thought; choosing to see things in a positive light and my world started reflecting that positive light. I came back home and began putting it into practice. I started by writing down one thing I was grateful for each morning during my morning meditation. It helped me to remember all the blessings in my life first thing in the morning and to put myself in a positive frame of mind. After several months, though, it occurred to me that many of the things I was writing down had to do with my amazing family and friends. Here I was sitting and writing how grateful I was for everyone each day but how many times had I actually TOLD them? Did they know how grateful I was for the little things they do each and every day? My next step was to put it on Facebook. I made a page for it and invited my friends and family to join and see what I was grateful for each day. Some of them even jumped on and posted too! It was great! Now they could see that I was grateful. It wasn't just in my head, it was out in the open. For a month or so that was good enough for me. Each day I got on and I posted something. Then one day I was talking to a friend and he said that it helped him to read what I was grateful for each day because it reminded him to be grateful for things too. I got to thinking; in our world where we are inundated with negative news on tv, a tough economy, and an untold number of things going on in each of our personal lives, maybe sharing what we are grateful for as a COMMUNITY would be a nice change. What if we had a site where we could all go and say "I'm grateful today!" whether it was something small like the sun being out or something major like a grandchild being born? And what if we took that one step further? What if we passed that gratitude along to the people we met throughout the day? The person that holds the door for you, the checker at the grocery store, the person who pulls over to see if you need help would all benefit from our gratitude, our thanks! And so here I am navigating a world of technology that I do not fully understand to try to bring a message of gratitude to our world. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about this project! I'm grateful to have you here!
Update: As this community grows I have also grown to offer additional tools I have found helpful in understanding and living an uplifted life of gratitude, including stepping into your personal power. I continue to take more courses and certifications to find more tools to help people, including most recently becoming a certified 8 to Great trainer. Feel free to check out the services offered to help you reach your full potential and to get you over any road bumps you may experience along the way. If you know of someone that could benefit from this community, please pass them along to our site so we can continue to grow and help uplift! And last but not least, if you would like to order some gratitude cards to pass out to people of service in your life (free of charge), contact me using the links in the upper right corner and let me know your needs. Thank you for exploring more about my mission! I'm so grateful to share it with all of you!
UPDATE 2017: Thank you all who continue to visit my site. I have been less active with workshops and events as I adjust to motherhood and enjoy time with my baby. Please stay tuned as I plan to start offering more events and workshops slowly building up over the summer and fall. Thank you!
Update: As this community grows I have also grown to offer additional tools I have found helpful in understanding and living an uplifted life of gratitude, including stepping into your personal power. I continue to take more courses and certifications to find more tools to help people, including most recently becoming a certified 8 to Great trainer. Feel free to check out the services offered to help you reach your full potential and to get you over any road bumps you may experience along the way. If you know of someone that could benefit from this community, please pass them along to our site so we can continue to grow and help uplift! And last but not least, if you would like to order some gratitude cards to pass out to people of service in your life (free of charge), contact me using the links in the upper right corner and let me know your needs. Thank you for exploring more about my mission! I'm so grateful to share it with all of you!
UPDATE 2017: Thank you all who continue to visit my site. I have been less active with workshops and events as I adjust to motherhood and enjoy time with my baby. Please stay tuned as I plan to start offering more events and workshops slowly building up over the summer and fall. Thank you!
