Mar 25, 2011
Happy Friday, everyone!
I’m having so much fun reading your
giveaway entries!
Thanks so much to those of you who have been paying it forward and posting about it!
In honor of you, I wanted to keep the good vibes flowing and post a question from our
Journaling Further Within book:
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We all have unique gifts and can pay it forward in so many different ways.
The wonderful thing about this exercise is that it doesn’t have to be something huge.
Little things add up quickly to become big things.
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At the post office, you could hold the door open for someone whose hands are full.
When you do your errands today, you could pick up any litter you see in the parking lot.
You could give someone
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Mar 16, 2011
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to write a post about gratitude!
Feel free to click here (or below) to learn more about our Gratitude Project.
Okay – now for today’s post:
One of the best things about starting a gratitude practice is you quickly realize just how much there is to be grateful for. You can practice gratitude everywhere – and anywhere you look you’ll see something that you’re thankful for. These are great things!
For today let’s narrow it down to just three things that we are grateful for:
the biggest, the littlest, and one thing in between.
And when you write these down – take some time to really feel your gratitude and appreciation. If you have the time and are able to, write an entire page on each one. Write about why you are grateful and how this affects your life in a positive way.
Focusing on just three of the millions of things in our lives that we are grateful for will help you to really appreciate them even more, which will lead to even more gratitude.
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Speaking of gratitude, we have a new Soulful Journal that we are excited to introduce!
The Gratitude Book: 50 Prompts to Keep the Grateful Feelings Flowing
Here is the description:
Feeling and expressing gratitude on a regular basis can lead to a happier, healthier life.
In this book, we give you 50 prompts that encourage you to express your gratitude.
Sample gratitude prompts:
Who is one family member you’re especially grateful for? Write about them, including one special memory that embodies what about them you love and appreciate.
What is one aspect of your daily life that you don’t always take time to appreciate, but that you’re actually very grateful for?
What is one experience from your childhood that you’re especially grateful for? Write about how it felt at the time and, in retrospect, how it’s affected More
Mar 9, 2011
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to write a post about gratitude!
Feel free to click here (or below) to learn more about our Gratitude Project.
Okay – now for today’s post:
We can all feel grateful when things are going well in our lives, but can we still be grateful and find the good in the seemingly not-so-good parts, too? That’s where the real soul searching comes in and the challenges begin to surface.
Here is an example to show how this can work:
Imagine that you are in a job you really can’t stand. You get up each morning and begrudgingly get ready for work and make yourself drive there – you know that the work itself isn’t your passion, the people you work with aren’t who you would normally choose to spend your days with, and this is certainly not the vision you had for your life. But you do it day in and day out because you have to pay your bills, right?Sounds pretty hopeless, doesn’t it?
But… take this same situation and imagine seeing it through a lens of gratitude and positivity. Each morning when you wake up you express your gratitude for having a house to wake up in, a job to go to, the security of a paycheck, a car to drive you there. Then when you get there, you express your gratitude for knowing that working at this job brings clarity to you for your future. By seeing what you don’t want to do, you can be more clear about what you do want to do by contrast. And having this knowledge gets you one step closer to living the life you want to live. And that is something to be grateful for! And you can start empathizing with your coworkers and imagine that they might just be in the same boat you’re in – just biding their time and clarifying their vision until they find the courage to take the leap toward pursuing their own passion. And this will make them more relatable to you, which will make the days much more enjoyable.
Can you see the difference?
We choose how we react to every situation in our lives.
And it doesn’t mean that we’re seeing through rose-colored lenses at every given moment, but it can make your life much easier if you begin to show your gratitude for everything around you – even the tough situations where gratitude doesn’t seem easy to find.
Take some time today and think of something that’s not going as well as you would like in your life (your job, relationship, More
Mar 2, 2011
A writing prompt from our Journaling Further Within book:
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The great part about this question is that the possibilities are truly endless – you have a magic wand, after all! Dream big and really think about how great it would feel to help someone in need!
After you’ve spent some time brainstorming, take some time to write about what you came up with.
And even if you don’t have a magic wand in real life, you can always help someone with what you do have: your words. You can tell someone how much they mean to you today, give someone a compliment, thank someone.
Spread the love today – we all know a little bit of love and gratitude goes a very long way!
