10 Gratitude Cultivation Resources

How might your day and your mood be different if you made the conscious choice to experience your day through the lens of gratitude?

It can be easier to cultivate gratitude when things are going well. However, the real key to strengthening the gratitude muscle is to practice gratitude for the hard stuff. Feeling grateful for the challenge means trusting that in some way, that maybe isn’t clear right now, this difficult time (and any difficult time or challenge) will reveal a stronger, wiser, more caring version of you; and these strengthened character traits will be the reason that you achieve the goals that you are working towards. (You will also be able to move through your challenge with less resistance & more joy).

How might the journey to reaching your goals shift if you practiced feeling grateful for the obstacles that inevitably arise?

Resources

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Gratitude Journaling Prompts:

- Write down 3 things you’re are grateful for

- Write down 3 people you are grateful for

- Write down 3 challenging events that you have gratitude for

- Write down 3 lessons you are grateful for

- Write down a memory that you are grateful for

Gratitude Exercise:

- Spend 2 minutes writing down or sharing aloud a memory that makes you feel grateful

- Write a letter of appreciation to someone in your support system

- Gratitude pause (freeze in the middle of your day and call to mind 3 things you can be grateful for in this moment)

- Listen to a song that makes you feel grateful

Below is one of my all-time favorite gratitude videos: