What are you grateful for?
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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.
Susan Joy Smellie, MS, LMHC, ATR in Naples, Floriday wrote . . .
As I was working on a big presentation this week, I remembered what it was like years ago to put something like this together. I am so grateful for the technology that has brought us resources from photocopiers to Power Point/projectors and so many others ways to help get our message across (the Web and more). I’m also grateful for the people who have given us the tools to be able to use technology, starting with our earliest teachers and continuing through friends and even strangers who have generously shared tips and techniques more recently. We are all blessed by the inventiveness and kindness and competency of others.”
And, as for me . . .
I’m grateful for my new accountability partner! We’re helping each other stay on track with our business and marketing plans.”
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’m grateful for reciprocity. I know this was discussed here earlier this week, but it has become very noticeable for me over the last month or so because we have some new people working within the agency and they’re very open to learning and sharing resources. It’s very refreshing!
I am grateful for all the trusting, authentic, heart followers that I know and whom I have been meeting lately. Together our energy is fantastic!