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.
Ari Hoffman, MA, LPC in Denver, Colorado wrote in to say . . .
I am grateful for the experience of having my own children who have been my best teachers as I continue to try to help myself and other parents be the best parents I and they can be. “
And, as for me . . .
I appreciate old clients that continue to consider me “their” counselors after so many years away . . . who take the time to send the updates on their lives and the holiday wishes and when they are ready choose to reconnect for those tuneups.
I am also grateful to those of you who have sent in your submissions for the very first Private Practice from the Inside Out Blog Carnival! We’ll go ‘live’ with those posts next Thursday!”
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.
Hi Tamara,
I am grateful for a new book I found called “One Thousand Gifts.” It is about gratitude. You can even download an app and start keeping track of what you are grateful for each day. Your Friday blog and this book have both brought this concept to life for me!
Linda, so glad it’s a relevant topic and exercise for you, too! Thanks for sharing the name of the book! I’ll check it out and . . . perhaps you’ll be writing a guest post soon on some aspect of this topic as it relates to growing your business ?!
I would love to… ;o)