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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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@lioness So sorry to hear you are down in the back. Also thankful you did not fracture any bones. Rest and take care of yourself. Gentle cyber hug.
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3 ReactionsI know I have mentioned before how my 4 year old grandson keeps me trying and how grateful I am for him. I did a paper mache landscape for his dinosaurs. He was thrilled!!
Here is a photo of his new dinosaur habitat.
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10 ReactionsToday I am grateful for having moved to our new house. This little town is very quiet. Grateful to the elementary school principal, who brought fiber optic internet to this town, and now the citizens can get it, too! Grateful that I can be here.
Ginger
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10 Reactions@gingerw
I'm glad you're happy at your new home. I couldn’t handle a move from L.A. to nowheresville. Is there a good size town nearby?
Jake
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3 Reactions@jakedduck1 Not sure of your definition of good-sized town. There are 875 people here, about 2100 in a town 18 miles north, 37,000 in the town 30 miles south. This Sat there is a community yard sale, and the coffee house is giving away maps of who will have sales!
Ginger [a small town girl at heart]
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4 Reactions@gingerw
lol, Holy smokes, I didn’t know you were so far out in the sticks. That’s a Village. That’s not even a good size neighborhood. And I thought Mt Shasta was the end of the earth. I was thinking a couple hundred thousand. WOW, 13 million to 875, Nice that your a small town(?) girl.
Be sure not to blink or you’ll drive right through it.
Jake
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4 Reactions@jakedduck1 I’m with you, Leonard. I do love our town, and it was a perfect size and atmosphere in which to raise children, but if I had the money I would move to Boston in a New York minute. These days, as we age, I really like the idea of not being too far from great medical care too.
My son and daughter were both more than ready to move to larger cities when they finished college, but even then, after my son moved to L.A., he once commented that our town had been a great place to grow up!
Leonard, for some reason I thought you lived further north in CA, but you live in the L.A. area? Busy area, for sure, and lots of traffic.
JK
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5 Reactions@gingerw Congratulations on your move to a small town. One of the healthiest place to be in my "came from the sticks" childhood where a trip to town was rare. I suffered a lot of being bullied because of where I came from. This is how it is and I still prefer the sticks and long to be back there again.
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5 Reactions@parus- I love this. I did one fr my son ages ago and made a volcano that actually erupted, lol- what a mess
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4 Reactions@jakedduck1 You made me laugh! The last sentence is right on! In fact, there is no stoplight here. At most stop signs, if you are turning right, you don't need to stop, and it says so! Today will be an adventure, I am headed up the road to DMV to get new plates/title for car, and license for me. I grew up in a small town, not this small but still.
Ginger
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