Fierce Gratitude.

I named my first self-published journal Fierce Gratitude: Gratitude even if, gratitude no matter what. Why fierce? Because a practice of connecting to and expressing gratitude on the regular can be challenging.

I set up the journal just the way I learned the practice: Write a list of 15 things you’re grateful for. Every day. Avoid repeats (if you can).

90 spreads like this, each with a themed quote and more…

A season of gratitude.

I realized today (two weeks after hitting Publish on the journal), that I didn’t include my own gratitude story in the introduction. (Doh!)

I started writing my gratitude lists in 2013. I started by hand in an actual journal, but soon found myself blogging my gratitudes. I had my blog for ten years. I created over 800 posts, and at least 75% of those were gratitude lists.

Wow.

Of course, you’ll have to take my word for it, because I pulled the plug on the blog a couple of years ago and now it exists only on the internet’s wayback machine and on the one archive copy I’ve got.