Day 16 - Gratitude

Gratitude includes being thankful for who we are, the challenges and opportunities we have experienced, our strengths and weaknesses, our skills and health. Today, consider how challenges you have faced in life provide an opportunity for you to grow and become the person you want to be.

Reflection
  • How much of our lives are we truly present for?
  • Today, consider how challenges you have faced in life provide an opportunity for you to grow and become the person you want to be.
Action
  • Think about three things that you are grateful for.
  • Who or what made those experiences possible?
  • Write or draw about what you are grateful for.
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.”
Germany Kent
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Alphonse Karr
“Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.”
Steve Maraboli
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
Anthony Robbins
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.”
Germany Kent
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Alphonse Karr
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