Day Momo (Des Moments) August 1st-15th
Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful. One of the things I love about it, along with the great food.
How often, in our every day lives, do we stop and reflect like we do on Thanksgiving? How often do we take a breath, and feel grateful for the good people and things in our life?
For many of us, including me, the answer is: Not enough.
A few years ago, my friend Ben shared an exercise he does in his journal called the Gratitude Exercise.
The Gratitude Exercise is simple. Write down a few things in a journal or notepad, that you are grateful for. Do this 4 or 5 days per week, or everyday if you’d like.
I don’t do this everyday. But I’m going to challenge myself and I invite you to join me. Between now, and Christmas, I will write down 5 things I’m grateful for everyday. And I will also perform 3 random acts of kindness per week, to display my gratitude into the World.
The gratitude can be for absolutely anything, in which you feel grateful. Big or small, doesn’t matter. The presence of gratitude through writing it down each day is the idea. The random acts of kindness can be very small. Getting a stranger a coffee in line next to you (a great way to start a conversation with a girl too, fellas…and much cheaper than a cosmopolitan), paying for the car behind you at a toll booth, or a surprise gift for a loved one are a few examples.
It’s vital to our livelihood to focus on our current blessings, rather then the lack in our lives.
Abundance does not come from wanting more. It comes from the presence of abundance right here and right now. Gratitude immediately puts us in that space of abundance.
Gratitude equals abundance.
Are you ready for the challenge?
-Joseph Metcalfe
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