It’s your turn now. You don’t have to be rich or famous for gratitude to matter. It’s important to count your blessings, and to share them with others, no matter your station in life. One of the key purposes of this book is to connect readers around the world with their own personal stories of gratitude. So please, please, take a moment today—and then tomorrow, and every day following— to look at your life and write down one thing — at least one thing—for which you are grateful. Then share it with someone. Share it with me, and share it with the world, right here!
Your gratitude could very well change someone else’s life. Don’t know where to start with gratitude? That’s easy. It’s about being in touch with your senses. Start with what you’re feeling. What is your body feeling? Where are your toes? What’s at your fingertips? Do you notice that rise and fall at your core? Embrace that breath. That’s a first, and fairly reliable, clue that you’re alive. (This is always a good place to start. Alive? Check!)
Then tune into what you’re hearing. I don’t know your particular aural landscape: It could be crickets in the meadows or the El screeching apocalypse outside your apartment window, an adagio rehearsed before curtain or someone else’s baby insisting on a clean diaper. Perhaps it’s even silence. But there is a rhythm to all that we hear. Do the same with your sight and your smell and your taste. Really experience it all. And remember: Even the things that don’t please you, the things you think are painful, they usually make great stories—especially if you remember that they’re only stories. Your senses are the keys to your gratitude. If you’re not feeling your life, not open to it and to really experiencing it, then you’re not connecting. Instead, try to be here, now.
Get started by answering these questions:
• Who gave you life?
• Who encouraged you to keep living?
• What flavors do you love?
• What film or book or song changed your life? How? Why?
• What’s that thing that person told you that stopped your mind?
• Can you recall or describe what would be your perfect day?
• What is the best gift you’ve ever received?
• Who was your favorite teacher or mentor, and why?
• Describe the most amazing moment from your favorite vacation.
• What is the most memorable advice you’ve ever been given—even if it
was horrible advice you were smart enough to ignore?
• Try to recall the moment when you realized you were more powerful or
capable than you thought. How did that feel?
• Describe a moment in which you felt smaller than you were, but were
elevated by faith or friendship.
• What is the smallest, most trivial thing for which you are grateful?
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