Gratitude: The Most Strategic Move You Can Make.
Anyone can give thanks. Few can embody it.
Especially now, as the end of the year asks more of you than ever.
Business decisions, deadlines, and teams are moving at full velocity.
And at the same time, personal family dynamics may feel more complex or more tender than usual. And, the holidays are here.
It’s in these moments that practicing gratitude becomes the most direct path to recentering ourselves.
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow” - Melody Beattie
You don’t need perfect conditions to access gratitude.
You need the clarity to recognize what’s still true for you beneath the noise.
When you can find it - even in a room that feels divided, or a season that feels overwhelming - you’re not only surviving this time of year.
You’re consciously leading yourself through it.
Need a simple way to reconnect this week? I invite you to try this activity at your Thanksgiving table.
Gratitude Gab
Find a jar or bowl and place a few questions or topics on folded up pieces of paper. Have everyone pass around the jar and take turns taking out a piece of paper and sharing what comes to mind. Here are a few sample questions to write:
Describe something lucky that happened to you this year and how your life improved.
Describe a special favor you received this year, how it helped you, and how it touched you.
Name someone you know who makes your life better and why.
Think of something you used today that other people may take for granted.
What do you appreciate most about the person sitting next to you?
Rather than someone stating one thing they are grateful for and then moving on, the purpose of this game is to provide conversations and stories that will enhance the group members’ lives, develop feelings of gratitude, and ‘nourish the heart’.
Where The Horizon Meets You:
Take this moment - before the next meeting, the next obligation, the next round of small talk - to pause.
Ask yourself: What am I uniquely grateful for right now?
And if you're willing - I’d love to hear it.
Hit reply and tell me what you’re feeling grateful for this season.