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.
So … let’s rock!
• Something Visual •
YouTube user Gratefulness gives us “A Good Day with Brother David Steindl-Rast,” featuring the respected Benedictine monk sharing a powerful message on grateful living.
• From The “League of Gratitude” •
A post from a December by Valerie Saurer (Twitter user @valerie_saurer) at the Living Gratitude Blog: “The Power of Gratitude,” where she introduces the Blog, and also The Attitude of Gratitude Project, where visitors can share what they’re grateful for.
• This is The New Stuff •
Anita Revel (Twitter user @iGoddess) at Count Your Blissings give us “4 Weddings and a Birth – how keeping a gratitude journal saved me from depression,” an excellent article about focusing on gratitude so consistently that it can come to us unbidden.
Anita also runs Daily Blissings Gratitude Project on Facebook.
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David Weedmark (Twitter use @DavidWeedmark) at Intent Blog offers “Three Steps Towards Constant Gratitude,” a unique observation about the nature of gratitude, and three very centering guidelines to make it our own.
David is author of the soon to be released novel, The Nature of Trees. More about it here.
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Professional Self Improvement Articles Directory gives us Kevin Sinclair’s “Applying The Power Of Gratitude,” which opens with nothing less than a prayer of gratitude — read: prayer of forgiveness –found Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Germany after its liberation at the end of WW II. (Talk about the power of gratitude!)
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Dr. John Schinnerer at Shrunken Mind – Making the Mind Understandable gives us “How to Deal With the Constant Stress of a Battered Economy – More Than 80% of US Stressed About Finances.”
(I want to do a headshrinker joke here, but he’s pretty much beaten me to it.)
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Taking a hard turn into cute: Mindy Lockard gives us a craft project with “St. Patty’s Day: Random Acts of Gratitude!” — who needs a pot of gold as a gift on St. Patrick’s day when you can offer a pot of gratitude instead?
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Kathleen Jacoby at Seasons of the Soul offers “Now Is the Time For Expressing Gratitude,” a call to action to take stock of our true inner riches.
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Amy Ahlers at Wake-Up Call Coaching offers “Top Ten Ways To Stay Inspired In This Economy,” with the first item out of the gate being … anyone?
• Oldies but Goodies •
Aaron at Today is that Day, gives us “Gratitude, Good Times, and Glory Days,” a post that quickly sums up the connection between the Law of Attraction and gratitude, and then gives us a detailed examination of the difference between everyday superficial gratitude and true gratitude.
Thanks to Edward Mills (Twitter user @edwardmills) for pointing me to this one.
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Stay tuned for the next Gratitude Watch.
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If you have a substantive original posting about gratitude (please see my “About Gratitude Watch” page) feel free to email me a link through my contact page, or “tweet” me on Twitter.
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this is really neat! i JUST “returned” to david steindl-rast yesterday. hadn’t thought of him for a while. saw him on austrian TV about 30 years ago, made a huge impression on me. read some of his books – wonderful!
so – grateful for this synchronicity!
Thank you for this wonderful site. I found you because you’d left a comment on mine, and am now recommending you to all on my e-mail list.
Many thanks for providing a light in a confusing world!