Here is how to join me in the Gratitude Challenge:
- Agree to practice gratitude every day for 14 days! You pick your gratitude practice: journals, letters, calls, you decide!
- At the end of each day, spend a few minutes journaling about any effects you are noticing. I promise this part is worth the extra time and effort.
- Allow me to ask about the experience when you are done.
Start your 14 days anytime before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the perfect time to have a gratitude practice in place!
Food for thought if you take the challenge: Gratitude practices can be done alone or they can involve other people. When you journal about the things in your life that make you grateful, I call this a “passive” gratitude practice. It is focused on reflection and is a personal practice. When you write letters or call people and thank them for the things that make you grateful, I call this an “active” gratitude practice. You bring others into your gratitude practice. I have seen lots of research on the effectiveness of both kinds of gratitude.