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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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Well I just ordered my 5 pound candy bar from Hershey’s. Good times are on the way. Should be here in 1 to 3 days. Even if I fast I won't lose enough weight by the time it arrives, Drat the luck.
Jake
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3 Reactions@jakedduck1 a 5 pound Hershey chocolate bar would not tempt me, if the taste is similar to Hershey kisses. My husband loves them but they taste like chalk to me.
JK
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3 Reactions@jakeduck
Hi,
No thanks, just don=E2=80=99t like milk chocolate. Dessert wines are usual=
ly
sweet and I don=E2=80=99t like sweet wines and people generally drink them =
by
themselves. I=E2=80=99ll stick to my one piece of dark chocolate and my
regular dry glass of wine. BTW I said I wouldn=E2=80=99t retire until I co=
uld
afford good food, wine and the beauty salon...so I waited to stop
working.
It=E2=80=99s time to stock the mini wine fridge again. That chocolate you
ordered should be divided into 1oz pieces ....per
day....really.....hmmmm..
FL Mary
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2 ReactionsCHALK? I can't believe I read such sacrilege. Your taste buds have obviously gone awry. There are many things I don't understand but to chock down all that dark vile tasting concoction tops them all.
Jake
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3 Reactions@contentandwell
Some of my post went to post Heaven, you probably wish it all had gone.
Just a little sidenote to Florida Mary (imamallears)
Yes I have tried it and I immediately thought I was going to puke it up and I wish I had, it definitely would’ve been a much more pleasurable experience.
Jake
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1 ReactionI only want to say one more thing I admit there are many things I don’t understand and will never be able to comprehend, But people eating the leftovers of toxic waste has to top them all. I am only sorry that you guys will never enjoy the miraculously exquisite flavor, aroma, texture, the aphrodisiac effect and how real chocolate makes you feel because of the endorphins. I have little doubt in my mind that the word indigestion came about when someone ate some dark chocolate. As for those rumored health benefits pure speculation and propaganda.
Jake
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3 Reactions@jakedduck1 Maybe Leonard but ohhhhhhh soooooo goooo is the dr. chocolate
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3 Reactions@jakedduck1 Hey, Leonard, too bad I didn’t know you when I lived in Hershey, PA! I could have bottled up some chocolate aroma and mailed it to you!
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3 Reactions@contentandwell I guess you went through the chocolate factory then I loved it so cool to see .
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2 Reactions@lioness. I have not been through a chocolate factory, I think the overwhelming aroma might actually turn me against chocolate! I worked in the candy department of a store when I was in college, the type of candy department where the chocolates were in cases to form custom assortments. I really lost my taste for chocolate for a while. They also had fresh roasted nuts but I did not lose my taste for them
JK
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