Mustard Seeds and Mega-Gifts: A Community Gratitude Journal – August 24, 2012

What are you grateful for?

If you are new to our online community here at Private Practice from the Inside Out, welcome! And, if you have been with us before, welcome back!

As a way of building our “gratitude muscles” and to help our colleagues build theirs, too, every Friday we will be hosting Mustard Seeds & Mega-Gifts: A Community Gratitude Journal.  Here you can share the large and small gifts and opportunities that come your way while building your private practice.

Lauren Aycock Anderson, MS Candidate in Denver says . . .

I am grateful to all the therapists here in Denver and in Maryland (where I’m from and where I plan to return soon) who have offered me guidance in finding an internship and building a private practice. I am most grateful to Brenda Bomgardner, who has been supportive both in and outside of her workshop on creating a private practice.”

And, here’s what I’m grateful for this week . . .

I’ve spent most of this week taking care of me by spending time with family in Yellowstone National Park.  Although I had hoped to meet with some of you in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana when I returned to Yellowstone this trip, I’m sorry that didn’t happen.  However, it was really great to take a break in an amazingly beautiful place that feeds my spirit!  I am grateful that I was able to recognize and take advantage of this opportunity.  I hope each of you is able to do the same.”

If you would like to build your own gratitude muscles by sharing your appreciations with us, here is how our gratitude journal works . . . .

• It will post weekly on Fridays.

• Your job is not to just be a passive observer but to contribute to the post by sharing something that you are grateful for.

• Just send an email note of appreciation related to anything that supports you growing your practice and put “Mustard Seeds” in the subject line.

• I’ll post it the following Friday as part of our community gratitude journal!

• And, if you forget to send an email, you are welcome to just add your appreciations to the comments of the weekly post!

• Afraid you’ll forget or slack off on sharing what you are grateful for?  You can sign up here to receive blog updates for Private Practice from the Inside Out (that you can use as nudges and reminders to share your appreciations) in your email inbox.

Research indicates that by consciously savoring those large and small gifts that come way, our joy and ability to recognize other opportunities are intensified.