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Discover Your Own Special Light
Is your light dulled because you haven’t dusted it off? Your Own Unique Shining Light You have unique gifts. Gifts that the world needs. Gifts that are fulfilling to you and while they bring serve the world they also serve you as well. Dust off these talents, skills and abilities. Don’t keep them hidden…
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The Wisdom of Feeling Good
Tiptoeing into feeling good. Me, At My Wisest What if the wisdom we seek has been here all along? What if feeling good is our work? What if finding beauty even amidst the struggle is what we are here for? When I am at my wisest I am noticing, aware, feeling it all. And I…
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Download Your 2016 Anthology eBook
A Year of Gratitude Happy New Year! I have once again created an anthology of the 2016 gratitude images, quotes and prompts into a pdf ebook. It is quite lovely and a great thing to look to if you ever need a little gratitude inspiration. [su_button url=”http://www.ourgratitudecollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AnotherYearOfGratitude.pdf” background=”#e9e9e9″ color=”#000000″ center=”yes” desc=”Another Year of…
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Your Custom Gratitude Prompt
Just comment below and I will reply with a custom gratitude prompt just for you. Our Gratitude Practice Can Be Enriched with Prompts Every single week I write a new gratitude prompt for you. And I have been doing this since January of 2013. That is over 200 questions! I do it because these…
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Macgyvering with Gratitude
I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving & Receiving! We Don't Always Have What We Need, or Do We? I never really thought of Macgyver as being grateful. Actually I haven't thought about Macgyver since I was about 12 years old. But all that changed today when I heard a podcast by the creator…
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Gratitude with Eyes Wide Open
Kid President has some beautiful words to inspire us this week. Practicing Gratitude Is Not about Ignoring the Bad Don’t be afraid of the bad. The sad. The hurt. I’m sorry. I don’t want to tell you how to feel. Be afraid if you must. But don’t close your eyes. Look at the bad.…
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Every Aspect of Our Lives Is a Vote
How many times today did you vote for the kind of life you want to live in? That Negativity All Around Us Right Now Do you ever find yourself having the same conversation with different people? That happens a lot for me. Most recently it is about the negativity in this election. It’s just…
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And Then I Learned That I’ve Known Abundance All Along
In a field of tall grass I learned two incredible lessons about abundance. And then as I wrote this I realized that tomorrow I celebrate my 2000th gratitude post! As I wrote this I discovered that tomorrow will be my 2000th gratitude post. I walked into that field and all that grass had grown…
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Hello, Nice to Meet You, I Am Grateful
It’s so easy to talk about what’s got me down but there it is, in abundance, so much to be grateful for. Introduce Yourself With Your Gratitude Today, go over to Our Gratitude and introduce yourself to the group. Instead of a standard introduction introduce yourself through gratitude. Who are you in the world and what…
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The Pleasure Tracker
I was wondering. What would my day be like if I had a pleasure tracker, a checkbox waiting to be filled with all sorts of delicious choices? Your Homework Assignment: Find Pleasure Each Day This week we explore pleasure. It is not the same as gratitude but it is not a stretch to…
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The Art of Being Soft
The bees buzzed around me with all their potential to sting. What will I do? Choosing Softness It can be so easy to convince ourselves that we have to be hard and tough. Even here in our gratitude collective a few weeks ago I was talking about fighting. In times when there is…
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Summer Rain Cleanse
The thunder is the loudest, the lightning is the brightest, the rain is the softest. When Life is Stormy Summer rains are showering our desert in blessings. Let the rain cleanse away your worries and your fears. Let the unknowns of life be as accepted as the thunder. Let your gratitude flow like soft…
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Float with the Flow
Flowers against my skin, dew transferred and absorbed, flowing with nature, united. Nature and My Nature I awoke before dawn. The magnificent colors of sunrise precede the actual emergence of the sun by quite a bit here. The sun languidly comes up when it is ready. Before the sun joined us I noticed…
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Aaaaaah … Sinking into the Love
And just like that I was in paradise. With my gratitude overwhelming me I realized that finding gratitude in grief, loss, frustration, overwhelm and boredom help me to fully and humbly welcome the gift of my current surroundings. Thank You, I Accept This Gift This week I arrived in paradise. The lush jungle…
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Gratitude Sharing Amidst a Storm
We sat quietly, taking cover from the desert sun, as the meditation began a storm blew through. The Smell of Onions Unseen. A Healthy Body. The Colorful Mountains. A Safe Place. We gathered. We, who are all about gratitude, sat together. We took cover from the dry desert sun in the shade, cooled by…
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Mindful Full Moon Solstice
Mindfulness is not only a meditation technique. It is a deep noticing. It is new possibilities. It is being present. A Mindful Experience Today is a special day, both the summer solstice and a full moon on the same day. What a perfect day to talk about being present and noticing. Imagine if no one…
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How to Inspire: From “Be Happy” to “I Am Grateful for ________”
Discovering Happiness During My Mid-College Crisis Something happened to me right around the time I turned 20. I called it my mid-college crisis and even though it was during the stone ages of the internet (back in 1995) I made a website about it. I questioned everything. Who am I? What am I doing with my…
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100 Thank Yous from Judaism to Einstein
If You Said Thank You 100 Times It is Passover and as my friends shared photos of their Seder it reminded me of a Jewish teaching I heard. It calls for all Jewish people to recite 100 blessings every day. The story behind the tradition is: During the reign of Kind David, there was…
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Writing Love Letters: Dear Morning …
A Month of Love Letters Today I received a lovely message with an invitation to write a month of love letters. But these aren’t your average love letters. These are love letters to ourselves, our bodies, our feelings and the world around us. In short they are a lovely gratitude practice. Today is April…
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I Really Should Be Doing That
Coaching Yourself Through Establishing a New Habit I co-facilitated a workshop on Saturday on mindful meditation and gratitude. As I listened to the woman talk about meditation I found myself being hard on myself about the fact that I have fallen out of my meditation practice. At the worst I called myself lazy and unfocused.…