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.
Catharine Beecher, MD, NCC, LPC in Colorado Springs, Colorado wrote . . .
Tamara, I am grateful for the warmth with which you welcome back old friends, colleagues, and clients.
I am encouraged and motivated by enthusiasm and practical ideas.”
And, as for me . . .
I am grateful for forgiving and generous-hearted colleagues. (I’ve got illness in my family right now and I completely forgot to attend a really important meeting! YIKES!)
I’m also grateful for the surge of interest related to my upcoming classes on blogging!”
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.
P.S. – If you find this community gratitude journal to be useful, please leave me a comment below. I’m trying to decide if I should continue it into 2013 or close it down at the end of this year. Thanks!
I’m grateful for my clinical supervisor who helps instill confidence in me but also challenges and guides me.
Hi.. Im an lcpc starting my own practice.. I look forward to reading your messages…. keep it open!!!
Hi, Linda! Welcome to Private Practice from the Inside Out and thank you for taking time to let me know that I’m working for you! Congratulations on your new practice. I hope you’ll be dropping in often to share your excitement and your challenges, too!
I am grateful for all the supportive people in my life as the mental health clinic that I opened approaches one year in December. I have a wonderful team that has supported this dream. I am also grateful for patience because the learning curve is still huge! 🙂
Hi, Cherie! Welcome back! I’m thinking that there’s likely to be at least 10 things that you’ve learned in the last year related to opening your clinic. Yes? If so, I hope you’ll consider sharing those in our November blog carnival. The theme is Top 10’s in Private Practice. See? It has your name on it!