🌼 Gratitude in April: Day 14
Thankful for 2 whole weeks of gratitude!!
When my life starts stacking chaos upon chaos the way it has the last few years, I get knocked completely off my center.
The self-care practices and regular routines I normally count on to keep me grounded fall by the wayside and figuring out how to get back on track feels just as overwhelming as the chaos itself. So I find myself paralyzed instead, unsure how to move forward.
With time, I've learned that daily gratitude is the go-to teeny tiny baby step I can always take to bring me back to myself. Not right away, mind you. But by about 2 weeks into a daily gratitude practice — that's when I start noticing real changes. Positive mindset changes that ripple outward into all aspects of my life.
So today, I am thankful for gratitude. I am thankful for the benefits I've seen in my life as a result of a gratitude practice and the inner peace I've gained. I'm thankful that gratitude is always there waiting for me, no matter how long a break I take. Just patiently waiting to work its magic on me just the same, whenever I decide to come back around.
TODAY'S PROMPT:
Read over your list of daily gratitude for the past 2 weeks, then think for a minute how you felt before you started this challenge. Would you have guessed you could find that many things to feel thankful for? Are you noticing any positives as you continue with the challenge? Is finding gratitude becoming easier with practice?
PS - These totally aren't rhetorical questions. I seriously would love to hear any changes you've noticed so far— hit reply or leave a comment on this post and fill me in!
If nothing else, reading these posts and writing in my journal are the only five minutes of the day that are completely mine. So I’m grateful for that ritual. I have recently gone weeks or months without writing.