Mustard Seeds and Mega-Gifts: A Community Gratitude Journal – September 21, 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.

Patricia Allison, MFT in Roseville, California says . . .

I really like your idea of focusing on gratitude… my pastor says gratitude is the healthiest emotion we can have.

I am grateful to recently be accepted on two EAP panels.  I have been trying to become a provider on several insurance panels since February, but learned most are already full in my zip code and have a two to three year wait.  In the last few weeks I have been seeing several new EAP clients and I am very blessed.

Thanks for your good work on the website and blog.”

And, here’s what I’m grateful for this week . . .

. . . colleagues like many of you who have passed my name along to a professor or peer who is looking for information about the best way to build a solid foundation for a private practice; colleagues who have tweeted a post or shared a post on Facebook or Google+, or joined a discussion on Linked in, or chosen to pass on a pin from Pinterest.  You guys are why my consulting business is so successful! Thank you!”

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.