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Gratitude Discussion Group
Hi everyone! Just before Thanksgiving @michellegraffradford posted a blog called Gratitude Changes Everything. She suggested three techniques to help incorporate gratitude into our daily lives:
- Start the Day with Gratitude (before getting up think of three people you are grateful for)
- Maintain a Gratitude Journal to record times when you are grateful
- Count Blessings – not sheep! (Review the day and remember moments of gratitude)
Her blogpost was so inspiring that a lot of us decided we wanted to form a Gratitude Group to keep the attitude of gratitude going. The blogpost area is not an ideal space for a big discussion group so I am moving the discussion over here to the “Just Want to Talk” Group. Let’s use this space to share and discuss our Gratitude Journey. I’m going to suggest that we each try to take a minute from the day and post here what has made us feel thankful today. It can be as small as a stranger’s smile on the bus or as large as fulfilling a major life dream – or anywhere in between. We can also discuss how we are doing with the three techniques. Sometimes it is easier to form new habits with support from others.
Michelle's full blogpost is at the link below. You may want to review it or print it out to help get started!
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/page/living-with-mild-cognitive-impairment-mci/newsfeed/gratitude-changes-everything/
I look forward to hearing from others in the Gratitude Group and to having others join us here! Thanks to those who already shared great stories. If you haven't yet, what gratitude will you share today?!
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@@parus,@gingerw you girls are killing me have to get my sirloin out today and make something yummy.I was going to make salmon soup but stew sounds much better love a good pot roast .
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2 ReactionsStew for breakfast is a great idea, @parus!
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1 Reaction@parus better you then me haha Like ginger said its a person's attitude if they decide to be happy or not .
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1 Reaction@lioness I rarely eat red meat, preferring chicken or turkey. But I figured I would give in and do a pot roast because I do like the smell of it cooking. Just found out my stepson is coming by on his Long Haul Trucking route tonight, so I have to figure something to fix once I get back from my appointments. Maybe I'll fix reservations at a restaurant. LOL
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2 Reactions@lioness One person's happiness is someone else's misery. Similar to one man's trash is another man's treasure.
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2 Reactions@lioness I made a pot roast in the crock pot on Sunday, It was an inexpensive piece of beef so it had to cook a long time, but the apartment smelled so good all day! The produce market nearby makes up a vacuumed sealed package of stewing veggies that I cut up and added a jar of mushrooms and a can of Golden Mushroom soup. Sooo good. I'm making myself hungry thinking about it.
Today, I'm grateful for my crock pot❤
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3 ReactionsYour neighbors are very lucky people, @parus.
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2 Reactions@gingerw
Yeah and all the home cooked meals your all scrarfing down is really bringing this supposedly happy Californian down.
I’m as useless in the kitchen as a screen door on a submarine.
Jake
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5 ReactionsLot's of folks are not good in the kitchen, @jakedduck1. I had a friend whose husband said that their kitchen was for resale value only😊
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4 Reactions@hopeful33250
That’s me too. If I built a house it wouldn’t include a kitchen!
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