Welcome to Gratitude Watch.
Gratitude Watch is an eye on the internet for news, articles, videos, and other items, all focusing on the subject of gratitude.
For more on my intent on these postings, see About Gratitude Watch.
One day down, 364 to go. Let’s rock!
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Some gratitude eye and ear candy from YouTube user kozmovpassana, “Tribute to the One: Unknowable Mystery.”
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Kathleen Gage at Daily Awareness offers “21 days to a life full of gratitude,” sharing an exercise she learned to bring the awareness of gratitude more completely into her life.
(Thanks to Lyman Reed for tipping me off to this article.)
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Certified usability analyst, user advocate, technologist, systems engineer, and business analyst (shwew!) Ann Krause gives us “Gratitude on the iPhone,” a review of Gratitude! the iPhone gratitude journal application.
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Darlene at Praisewalker.com gives us “A Gratitude Trial,” in which she she finds gratitude for a mice infestation (and not Mickey and Minnie, either).
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Julie Obermiller at Sunny Side Up gives us “An attitude/gratitude adjustment,” an entertainingly personal reflection on having discovered gratitude journaling through Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance years before, letting the practice go by the wayside over the years, and recognizing the need to re-embrace it a short time ago. I love her line: “Growing old is inevitable. Growing old, bitter and crabby is optional.”
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Silvia Johnson at Silvia the coach’s Weblog gives us “Bringing in the New Year,” a quick reminder that despite appearance presented by the media, people are thriving everywhere … and we can too.
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Murder Mystery author Louise Penny shares “Surprised by Joy,” and with it shares a touching reflection of gratitude, a miracle, and a hard anniversary.
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If you have eight minutes for a guided meditation, complete with ongoing affirmations and ambient pan-flute background music, then Angela Carole Brown has a “Gratitude Meditation” for you.
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Jonathan at The Year of Gratitude gives us “Beginnings: an Appreciative Inquiry,” a quick introduction to “Appreciative Inquiry” a technique for getting organizations to stimulate creativity and innovation.
I am astonished … this is a business methodology of gratitude. Who’d a thunk it?!
Jonathan gives us a couple of sites to learn more — at Wikipedia, and Appreciative Inquiry Commons.
This latter is sponsored by Case Western Reserve University. From the “about” page there, “Appreciative Inquiry” is explained as “the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them.”
Totally cool.
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This is a touch off-topic, but I think most of the men out there can reflect back to their adolescent and young teenage years and relate to this (and most women can relate to the other side). My Video (Germany) user AB_Divine_HB gives us “Thankful,” which frames the unrequited “thang” the Harry Potter series character Ron had for the focus of his interest, Hermione.
(Though I could translate the site, I couldn’t find any references to the singer or songwriter. Wish I could … it’s a good song.)
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If you were looking for “Oldies but Goodies” down here at the bottom of the page, today I have to disappoint you.
… sorry.
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Stay tuned for the next Gratitude Watch.
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Thanks so much for visiting my Year of Gratitude blog and for calling out the bit on Appreciative Inquiry. It’s really a great methodology. I’ll be following your Gratitude Watch and looking forward to it.
Thanks!
Jonathan
Just wanted to let you know that the song, “Thankful” from the video is Kelly Clarkson!
Angie –
Thank you for that. She deserves the credit — it’s a catchy tune.