Greatful, grateful, gr8full, No word of a lie when i started writing my gratitude journal I had to look up how to spell Grateful- 1. feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful Great-full made more sense to me, full of great right? But I guess that gave me some ammunition for my first entry right? Because what the hell do I have to actually be greatful- there I go again (that is an actual typo) GRATEFUL for. Slowly but surely following Julie Boyer’s steps I ended up finding things every day, big things or small things.Things started popping up around me that I had never taken the time to notice that they were there or that I used them every day. A great pair of sunglasses became a 5 line rant in my journal, a note from my wife written on the window, my kid picking up something that I dropped… But then I started listening to some podcasts and was slammed every day with other peoples stories. Living in the ghetto in Connecticut, growing up 6 people in a 2 bedroom house, nope not my life. Sister with Downs Syndrome that had to be legally separated from her father because he could not take proper care of her and she should not have been living in an institution. Privileged Hollywood upbringing that was exposed to drugs once they got to university culminating in a two hour story on how deep and dark that rabbit hole is. I’m going to go ahead and say 100% I have EVERYTHING to be grateful for no matter how I spell it. Look around the room that you are in and take 5 minutes a day to realize how lucky we are for even the smallest thing. I mean… I’m writing this on a computer I own, in the back of my classroom, teaching a course and a group of kids that I love. Today I’m grateful for that... ha finally, nailed it, grateful. Richard Hortness 20 gratitude quotes from famous people
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Janeva
1/23/2018 10:49:09 am
I agree! Gratitude can change your perspective on things and can widen your awareness on the world around us and the society in which we live in!
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donovan
1/23/2018 10:54:40 am
gratitude is nothing you should take for granted i am grateful for lots of things but i never take them for granted because being grateful for something can lean to a lot of bad things
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Makaela
1/23/2018 10:55:56 am
Love this blog
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Ella
1/23/2018 10:58:58 am
I love this! Also loved the honestly in how to spell grateful!
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Matthew
1/23/2018 11:01:45 am
This journal was a great idea for our class! It has helped me see how many different things I am grateful for!
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Georgia
1/23/2018 11:05:41 am
Nice blog, it was short and got to the point but I related to what you were saying. When I started the gratitude journal, I found it hard to find things to be grateful for. But then I realised that I can be grateful for the small things like my education, collection of novels and my happy and healthy family. Its the everyday things that matter
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Anna Robinson
9/11/2018 11:33:37 am
This blog was such a great reminder for me! I am able to see the world with a different perspective.
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