When you first started Grateful in April, you might have had a few ideas about what you might get from spending a month practicing the art of gratitude. In the early days you might have had to remind yourself to focus on what is good in your life, but the more you do it, the easier it can became. Maybe every once in a while you found yourself lapsing […]
Over the past month you’ve had the opportunity to compile a bedside journal of nearly 100 things you are grateful for in your life. Maybe you have a book overflowing with gratitude or maybe you meant to write something each day but you missed a night, then another and then forgot again. Maybe you never […]
Learning from the wisdom of others is a great way to keep motivated to maintain your gratitude mindset. Whether you like good old fashioned books or the more portable digital world of the e-publication, you can inspire yourself daily with stories, autobiographies and quotes from some of the great minds past and present. Whatever ‘speaks’ to you, […]
When you begin to be grateful for all that you already have in your life you might look around and see how much you have. Look how much you have. No really. What is all of that stuff? If you have created some clutter in your surroundings, you may find that it clutters up your […]
We’re busy liking things on social media, but do you ‘like’ your life? We are 25 days into a comprehensive burst of practicing gratitude and you may find it is still easy to sometimes worry about what’s not working in your life. Worrying and imagination are two sides of the same coin. Worrying about things […]
This attitude of gratitude stuff works. It really does! We know people have connected and reconnected with people. They’ve created space for amazing things to happen and opportunities to come to them both personally and professionally. Each year we run this we get phone calls from people, messages in our inbox and even posts through social media from people who are having positive life-changing […]
Want to be happy? Give a little bit. Money, time and skills are all valuable gifts. Studies show that people who spent even small amounts of money on other people felt measurably happier than when they spent it on themselves. Across the 136 countries studied, donating to charity had a similar relationship to happiness as doubling […]
We’re not talking about the Oscars, but you need to start acting. Thinking and planning are great but mean nothing if not acted on. Is there an area in your life where you could be taking action? Some dramatic world events and changes to personal circumstances might make some goals seem completely unattainable right now. Do you have […]
Who could you cheer on today? We need to build others up and stop cutting them down – Enough of the ‘tall poppy’ syndrome. We say support all poppies, whatever height. Spend at least the rest of April noticing stories of people who achieve some kind of greatness or goal and be genuinely happy for […]
Take a walk around your home and notice objects that have happy memories for you. Photos of happy times are an easy starting point. Pick one special possession and allow happy recollections associated with it to wash over you. Remember where it came from and feel gratitude for having it. Now repeat the process. Have […]