150 Public Pledges

I’ve blogged on and off for a couple of years now about Gratitude and love everything about it.  This year’s Grateful in April campaign was fabulous and from feedback I received, many of you following me and/or the campaign equally enjoyed my posts.

This simple facebook post prodded (more…)

How to pay it forward and swim in the river of reciprocity!

My mum sowed the seeds on the importance of having an attitude of gratitude when I was very young. I realise now, that her daily rations of

• “be thankful for what you have”
• “think of all those poor little kids in Africa starving”
• “there’s always someone worse off than you”
• “thank your lucky stars you’ve got a roof over your head and food in your belly”

were peppered with (more…)

Day 18 #GratefulinApril

I am really loving this Gratitude campaign, and thought I’d collate the last 24 hours of grateful tweets.

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Grateful in April Day 18

So here we are already in the eighteenth day of #GratefulinApril

This campaign continues to motivate me to remain grateful for everything in my life, be it good, great, ordinary or mundane! Refusing to give in to the emotionally muddy dark clouds that beg to engulf me, I am feeling more motivated and enthusiastic then I have in ages.

Day 17 Grateful in April

I am sooooo loving the 2012 #GratefulinApril campaign! It has motivated me beyond belief to remember to express my gratitude daily. A simple thing, yet so very very powerful. I’ve got a lot to learn about filming, but do you know what? I’ve decided to just get over myself and  practice, practice, practice!

So yep, the lighting in this clip isn’t the best, and the angles aren’t perfect – so what! I’m done with perfectionism – it just doesn’t fit me anymore.

Practice expressing gratitude, practice filming, practice saying I’m sorry, practice the art of receiving… and so on!