Today I want to take a moment and appreciate the simple comforts in my life. I’m incredibly lucky that I have the luxury of doing a site like this where I get the chance to take a step back once a day and think about what makes life great and share it with others. I can only do that because of the comforts that life has afforded me.

I live close by to any of the basic needs I’d want and a short commute away from where I work. The biggest worry about food I have is figuring out what I want to eat. I have access to the internet, a limitless depository of knowledge and entertainment. I have shelter and transportation. I have good friends and a great family.

All too often in life we get hung up on our needs and wants. We think about what we don’t have and what we need to do to get it. We spend so much time being unsatisfied and longing for something else, something we think is more. It’s good to reset every now and then and appreciate what you do have in life that you take for granted after a while.

To me, when you appreciate what you have, when you add to it you build up, you make the whole a better thing. If you only focus on the want or the need and forget the good things you have, when you add something it’s like tossing it into a hole, an empty foundation. The want is still there, and you keep chasing other things when what you were looking for is what you had all along.