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 •
As mentioned previously, I have a category of folks I call The “League of Gratitude,” people that have been frequent contributors to Gratitude Watch.
New member of the “League” Jo Englesson, founder of TOFA (“Token OF Appreciation”) — and Twitter user @JoEnglesson — gives us “Giving Year Day 316 – Matthew the Gratidude!!!” … a birthday tribute to Matthew Ashdown, half of the gratitude/law of attraction coach team The Gratidudes as she continues her “Giving Year.”
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Michelle Ray, YouTube user michellespeaker, (and Twitter user @attitudespeaker), gives us some worthwhile thoughts on gratitude and customer service in “Have an attitude of gratitude.”
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On Truveo, host Andrew Lock (Twitter user @Andrewlock), gives us “Episode #53 of Help, My Business Sucks!“ — opening with a segment on being grateful for what we do have, featuring a clip from an American late night television show and a comedian whose material on gratitude is becoming famous around here.
Andrew has sound advice for internet entrepreneurs, so for those of you pursuing ecommerce, you may want to stick around afterwards.
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Brenda Arnall of It’s a New Day gives us “It May Be Frivolous But It’s Still A Blessing To Me,” where Brenda points out a blessing doesn’t have to be momentous or monolithic to be of value in our lives.
• This is The New Stuff •
At Gail Lynne Goodwin’s Inspire Me Today, Gail (Twitter user @inspiremetoday), gives us “Regret vs. Gratitude,” showing us through a personal story of loss how the latter is the antidote to the former.
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At Mexico Trucker Online, “US earns Mexico’s gratitude over H1N1 response” — in which America gains praise from our neighbor to the south, as compared to the overzealous responses of other nations to shut down all commerce and travel.
(Yeah … thanks again, France.)
(Come on, world. It’s just a damned flu. Get a grip!)
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Living in Vegas, I guess it was inevitable I would eventually have to say something about gratitude and gambling … at Poker Player, psychotherapist Jim McKenna offers “The Attitude of Gratitude,” showing how gratitude figures in in the game of poker.
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Emily at Spoiled Society offers “Free Attitude Changer: Create a Gratitude Journal,” where she points out a benefit of gratitude journalling that I hadn’t recognized before: identifying what’s important in your life and what really makes you happy. (I’d always approached journalling in the other direction, so it never occurred to me.)
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Laura Roveda or Kaia Mitchell at Windflower Moon (you didn’t tell us which, ladies …) gives us “Winter Madness – An Exercise in Gratitude” (written January 9 but posted today), that getting snowed in and having a little less for a while became an opportunity for spiritual growth … and a little early spring cleaning.
(As Vegas breaks the 100 degrees F. mark (38 C. to translate for some of us) it was pleasant to see something about … cold.)
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Susan at Susan Nola’s Adventures gives us “Gratitude,” a little peek into the life of an entrepreneur being thankful as success slowly and playfully appears around her.
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At Jimboland Jots, storyteller, musician, thinker, creative, self-professed technopagan (?), and Twitter user @JimbolandJots), James Lovette-Black gives us “Pass Through a Doorway to Enhance Health and Long Life,” gives us the relationship between optimism and gratitude, and explains a new acronym (to me) DOR — “Daily Optimism Ritual.”
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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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