Mustard Seeds and Mega-Gifts: A Community Gratitude Journal – August 31, 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.

As for me . . .

I’m especially grateful to entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author Reid Hoffman who (along with his PayPal team) created LinkedIn.  Because of LinkedIn, I have been able to meet meet great people, found resources for my clients, and have stretched my thinking in many ways.  Thank you, Reid Hoffman and your PayPal team for such a great tool!”

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.