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GRATITUDE
Use the Power of Threes to Refresh Your Gratitude Practice
An easy way to discover lots of overlooked blessings to be grateful for
One of the joys of waking up is getting to do my gratitude practice. I do it most days before I even get out of bed, although sometimes I wait until I’m seated at my computer desk. I think of the things I’m grateful for at that moment: my warm soft bed, air conditioning (or heating in the winter), my apartment, my friends, my neighborhood, my writing career.
Lately, I’ve found my morning gratitude practice getting a bit stale. Reciting the same list over and over started to feel like I was merely going through the motions. Gratitude became one more chore I had to get done in the mornings. It was kind of like, “(sigh) I don't really feel like doing gratitude, going to the gym, and cooking breakfast, but I guess I have to.”
You never want to approach gratitude from that kind of place, and here’s why: You attract what you are. If you’re genuinely grateful when you do your practice, you’ll attract an even greater abundance of things to be thankful for. If you treat it as a task you have to get done, you’ll attract more tasks — more chores. Who wants more chores?
