We do a lot of stuff throughout our day. Not everything is planned out or intentional. A lot of our life is either responding or reacting to life as it happens. We can give God the glory and be thankful for those actions, as much as we do for the actions that we plan and intend from the beginning to glorify God.
Lord, help my mind to be set on You so that I can be thankful all day, and not simply in things that I plan.