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Today I’m grateful for being grateful. \u00a0Does that sound crazy? \u00a0Inspired by this article<\/a>, almost exactly a year ago I started logging one thing I was grateful for that day or that made me happy that day, by noting it on a small piece of paper and adding it nightly before bed into my gratitude jar.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of this year I moved to keeping the below gratitude journal<\/a>, and noting one thing became noting everything I could think of from that day but always at least 3 things, sometimes filling multiple pages but usually at least fully filling that day’s page. And then last night I just had this moment of profound appreciation. \u00a0I now have this book full of ~260 days (how far are we into the year??) of things I have been grateful for or that made me happy. \u00a0What an incredible log to be able to look back on and see the wondrous parts of this year. \u00a0I traveled with my iPad as my eReader in order to not travel with heavy books when I was on the road for 6 weeks this summer… but this physical, paper, journal was important enough to make the cut anyways and accompany me on the whole journey.<\/p>\n

I don’t know when it happened, but now I find myself noticing gratitude throughout the day, being grateful for things that might never have registered before. \u00a0What an incredible practice this has been. \u00a0Have you ever considered a gratitude practice? \u00a0I would love to hear the details of yours if you have, and if you haven’t, I hereby highly recommend it. Being grateful FOR being grateful… and then being grateful for being grateful for being grateful… what an unbelievable feeling.<\/p>\n

<3<\/p>\n

Esther<\/p>\n

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