A Reason To Wake Up With Gratitude

It’s cliche but it deserves restating: We have so much to be grateful for. What a blessing it is to have another day, food in our fridge, a roof over our head, our health, and so much more.

There are people around the world waking up who can’t say the same, so every day we have it, we have a reason to be thankful.

But what I’ve found to be true about gratitude… It’s one thing to say it and an entirely different thing to feel it. We can riff off all of the things we take for granted, all of the things we’re grateful for, and it’s good enough to check the box. It’s superficial and lacks the depth that genuine gratitude can offer.

The process I’ve found that works for me to experience deeper levels of gratitude comes from unpolished, stream of consciousness reflection. Simply extending the thought and elaborating on the details of why you’re grateful gets you out of your head and into our heart. 

“I’m grateful for a roof over my head” turns into “I’m grateful for a roof over my head, helping to insulate a warm house. I wonder how that man I saw under the bridge is feeling right now, and how all he wants is a warm place to be. How lucky am I to be warm and comfortable on a cold day.”

Again for me, the more I go on and on, the more real it gets and the more connected I am to my reason to be grateful.

There are few things that will change your life as much as 30 days of consistent gratitude. It will literally change your unconscious filter on the world. Challenges don’t seem so hard, setbacks don’t feel so bad, and the future looks that much brighter.

Our life is our perception. Might as well shape it so that it’s more pleasant and enjoyable!

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