This time of year can be pretty tricky. It’s a time when our personal life naturally expands and needs more attention, so it would be convenient if our business life contracted a bit to make room for your personal life-holidays, parties, family gatherings, events. You name it.
Sometimes that doesn’t happen though.
And then we get super-stressed out, which really stinks.
And all of this happens right before a holiday when we’re supposed to focus on thankfulness, right?
I personally have felt like “being thankful” was just another thing to add to my to-do list.
But…that doesn’t feel good. I mean…why even worry about being thankful anyway? I’ve been mulling this thought over in my mind.
Here’s what gratitude isn’t
I hear the Sunday school answers of “there are starving children in Africa. You should be thankful for a roof over your head and the food on your plate!”
And I also hear the inner sassy kid response of “ send them my food then cuz I don’t want it.”
In the past, gratitude hasn’t actually been gratitude. It’s been a to-do item, a sign I’m not who I “should” be because I’m not grateful, and ultimately something I resisted.
But over the past few years, I’ve seen how gratitude is a state of BEING not a state of DOING. Its something I feel, observe, and receive.
So, instead of approaching the holiday as most do, rushing around like crazy, stressed and overwhelmed, then smoothing my hair down, and sitting at the thanksgiving table saying “Today I’m thankful for…” with a forced smile
I’m doing something different. It’s time to flip the thanksgiving script and I’m showing you how.
I regularly run science lab style experiments on my mindset. I know-I get super nerdy about mindset! but I’m running an experiment AND sharing it for you to join in or just observe
Next week I’ll be running The Gratitude Experiment on instagram and I want you there.
What’s the Gratitude Experiment?
A 5 day experiment testing the hypothesis “gratitude makes my life better.”
(but does it really?) Each day, I’ll share a post, go live at 11 am CST (except on Thanksgiving), and host a group chat for you to share your experiment results.
Here's the thing...
I know it’s a holiday week
And you might think I’m crazy for doing this during a holiday.
But...I think there couldn’t be a better time to run this experiment.
I have a hypothesis that I’m going to see gratitude all around me on Black Friday where I used to only see unkindness and scarcity minded people frantically shopping.
And really, what’s the worst that could happen?
You don’t prove your hypothesis?
That’s no big deal, right?
But...chances are, you’ll experience more gratitude and love, see it all around you, and have more reasons to say “thank you” because you’re receiving kind gestures from random strangers.
Join me and see if you agree.
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