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All posts tagged: Thankfulness
Choosing gratitude in difficult times
Gratefulness is a practice we can cultivate especially during times of despair.
The practice of gratitude
Thoughtfulness becomes thankfulness. Gratitude leads to generosity and kindness to others.
Turning gratitude into thankfulness
If your practice of gratitude is sporadic, here are four tips to help you be “radically grateful.”
Observations from … November 2022
Here are the posts that showed up in November 2022 in More to Come…
An attitude of gratitude
Gratitude takes nothing for granted.
Observations from a lockdown: Being grateful. Giving thanks.
It is easy to give thanks when everything is going well. It is more important to be open to gratefulness in challenging times.
Struggling with separation
Where everything seems new, we learn and grow not only through considering our own experiences and what our senses are telling us, but by hearing from a wide variety of voices.
Just say it
My one piece of advice to colleagues, friends, and family is pretty simple: Say “Thank you.” Say it early and often.
Be thankful every day
Why do we often wait until an individual or team completes a major project to offer thanks? Last week’s PastForward 2018 national preservation conference in San Francisco certainly falls in the successful major project category in my work, and I do want to thank our core team of Susan, Farin, Rhonda, Colleen, Alison, Nicky, Lizzy, Diana, Michelle, Reagan, Sandi and Priya. They helped lead us through an inspiring week. I’ve often thought we shouldn’t wait for a holiday such as the one we are celebrating this week in the U.S. or only at the end of a project like PastForward to recognize others. A few years ago I became intentional about saying “thank you” to someone every day. It is one of the smartest things I ever did as I get so much more out of life since I began that practice. If for no other reason, it reminds me how much I depend on the kindness of others. I believe there is a distinction between gratefulness and thankfulness. If we are fully aware, fully …
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