Gratitude
Posts that focus on gratitude in all its forms. These posts can cover showing gratitude about life and family, ways to find gratitude, ways to express gratitude, why it's important, and more. This also includes posts about self-care and mindfulness and journaling.
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Day 7: Hard Times Help Us Appreciate the Good
It’s Day 7 of our 30 Days Blessed This Christmas Blogging and Social Media Challenge. How are you feeling about your blessings today? Hopefully, you won’t feel preached to or “talked at” while reading these words. They’re meant to be a gentle nudge toward expanded consciousness and a way to open the door to positive people and opportunities. Do you ever feel as though life is an all-uphill battle, with no relief in sight? Some Days May Be Harder… Truth is, some days may be harder than others to allow a feeling of gratitude to permeate out being. But it’s okay to honor these feelings that we all have from…
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Day 5: A Cup of Self-Reflection
What is it about a hot drink that lends itself so readily to self-reflection and self-realization? Help yourself to an attitude of gratitude in the form of self-reflection and self-realization. Wrap your hands around a warm mug of spiced cider that you take time to sip slowly from a rocker on the front porch. Don’t have a front porch? Take a walk to your favorite downtown coffee house, and sit and sip on a bench outside the shop. Take some time for self reflection as the beautiful leaves cascade to the ground in shimmering shades of crimson and gold. Feeling like being with a friend? Make a date to meet…
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Day 4: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
If you grow a garden, then you probably know about "hardening off." In this process, you take young plants that have only been in the warmth of a greenhouse or in protective indoor shelter under grow lights and bring them outdoors for a few hours each day. You're supposed to do this for increasing lengths of time. The newly matured plants will become strong enough to withstand the elements on their own. Once your plants are fully hardened off, they're ready to be planted outside in your garden beds.
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Day 2: Accentuate the Positive
Feeling blessed begins with being able to see the positive. Of course, some things are obviously a plus – like a free lunch, a beautiful day, a perfect parking spot, or an unexpected check in the mail. It’s easy to be grateful for those little moments that bring us joy. What’s a little more difficult is being able to see the good in an adverse situation. Sometimes you might feel like everything’s going wrong. You don’t have enough to pay the credit card bill this month. Your child got in trouble in school today. You had to say goodbye to a beloved pet. The checkout lines at Wal-mart seemed to…
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Day 1. Trying on an Attitude of Gratitude
Note: This month, I am going to run a “30 Days Blessed” Gratitude series. With all that is going on, it may be challenging to be grateful — the stress can weigh you down and the holidays make be the oddest we have ever lived through. But hopefully, these posts can help you make it through the holidays With December here, are you moving into a gratitude mindset? What does it mean to feel as though you’re 30 Days Blessed? It’s about appreciation for all of life’s gifts. No matter what your circumstance, there is always something to be thankful for. In fact, studies have shown that ruminating on the…
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Gratitude: The Reason for the Season
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans. Though the origins are different, the sentiment is essentially the same. Thanksgiving is a day set apart to celebrate the bounty and blessings of the year. Reminding us to be thankful for the abundance and wonderful things that have happened — even when a lot of things have not gone to plan or have actually gone wrong. In America, there are a lot of traditions that go hand-in-hand with Thanksgiving. Football, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and large dinners with turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Certainly, these are things to be thankful for, but there’s plenty of other reasons…
