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.
Here’s just one thing that I’m really grateful for this week . . . .
I was so excited to see that my friend, colleague, and internationally-known new author, Beth J. Hayden, had her new book, Pinfluence, just show up on bookshelves around the world. (Yes, not just here in the USA!) So what am I thankful for? I’m finishing up reading it and . . . she was so kind to reference me and our Private Practice from the Inside Out community!
Thank you, Beth, for being such a great friend and my social media guru and for being so kind as to tip you hat in our direction!”
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.
I received a card from a client in the last week thanking me for my help. I am grateful for the recognition and reminder that what we do as therapists makes a difference. It reminded me of the impact our assistance has in our clients lives.
Lyndsey, don’t you love it when a client is thoughtful enough and grateful enough to say “thank you?” I do, too . . . which, of course, reminds me . . . I need to drop my dentist a note and say “thank you,” too!
I am thankful for all of my supportive colleagues! It would be impossible for me to maintain my stamina without the camaraderie.
Oh, yes, that’s a good one, Traci! Thanks for dropping in this morning to work on that “gratitude muscle!”