It’s November 1, are you up for a gratitude challenge?
Usually, during November we are encouraging each other to be thankful for all we have.
During the Thanksgiving meal, the dreaded question comes up. “What are you thankful for?” Then one by one you go around the table. Unless you have prepared ahead of time, the answer is usually, “Family and friends gathered here today” or “This delicious food at the table.”
These answers do make sense, since our Thanksgiving was modeled after the first harvest in the New World in October 1621.
On a side note, according to an article in Town and Country magazine titled, 8 Interesting Thanksgiving Day Facts, you can also be thankful for Franklin D. Roosevelt who changed the date of Thanksgiving to one week earlier to lengthen the holiday shopping season.
While these are awesome things to be thankful for, what about the other 364 days of your year?
Let’s get a little more creative!
To give you some time to think, I’ve provided a 30-day gratitude challenge.
Starting today, use the prompts to think of something you are grateful for, then when Thanksgiving rolls around, you will be ready!
November Gratitude Challenge!
- A gift you received
- New food you tasted
- A friend
- Book or Podcast
- Goal you accomplished
- Gift you gave
- Something about your body
- Piece of advice you received
- A new skill
- Something that made you laugh
- Trip or adventure
- Piece of technology
- Something beautiful
- Mode of transportation
- Your children or someone else’s children
- Item you use every day
- Someone you helped
- Sports team
- The amount of money you have
- Your spouse or partner
- Movie
- Your job
- A challenge you overcame
- Favorite memory
- Family member
- Where you live
- Charity you donated to
- A lesson you learned
- Something about your personality
- Nature
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Write these down in your journal as part of your morning or evening routine! Hopefully, one of them will spark your creativity this Thanksgiving and inspire your family as well.
Happy Thanksgiving!
“Thanksgiving day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.” E.P Powell
“What if, today, we were grateful for everything?” Charlie Brown
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward
“Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.” Jonathan Safran Foer