The Gargantuan Gifts of the Good Ole Gratitude Journal

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

~ William Arthur Ward

Do you use a gratitude journal?

If you’re like me (and many others, I suspect), you may have tried, at some point, to write consistently in a gratitude journal…but then perhaps lost interest. If you aren’t familiar with what a “gratitude journal” is, it’s basically just a notebook where you write down (on a daily basis) some of the things in your life you’re grateful for.

Depending on your day, your life and/or your state of mind, the things you might be grateful for can be anything…your cat, your health, your spouse, your bank balance, the roof over your head, the clothes in your closet, the roses in your garden, etc.

Once you get rolling, the list of things to be grateful for, on any given day, is usually extensive…infinite, in fact.

The mindset we bring to the act of being grateful, on the other hand, is where we may need to do a little work.

Perspective is everything.

Perhaps not surprisingly, it was my life coach, Rob Flichel, who suggested to me (again) that in order for me to begin to…