Gratitude Prompts

In all of my teachings and learnings, one of the most important in my current life has been the practice of gratitude. Every night for so many years I have been recognizing at least three things I am grateful for each day. More often than not, there are many more than three things.

For example, last night (actually December 26), I was grateful for the movie I saw with my wife (“Bombshell”), playing tennis for 90 minutes (after a long recess from the game) and the help I offered my wife in the morning to cleanup after a mega-Christmas party. These may sound incidental, but each one had meaning for me.

When my kids were little (the youngest is now 35), my wife would always say to them, “To desire what you don’t have is to waste what you do have!” This has stuck with me and them for all these 30+ years.

Here are the gratitude prompts from Anita Moorjani to help you begin a gratitude practice:

1. A strength of mine for which I am grateful is…
2.  Something money can’t buy that I’m grateful for is…
3. Something that comforts me that I’m grateful for is…
4. Something funny for which I’m grateful for is…
5. Something in nature that I’m grateful for is…
6. A memory I’m grateful for is…
7. Something that changes that I’m grateful for is…
8. A challenge I’m grateful for is…
9. Something interesting that I’m grateful for is…
10. Something beautiful I’m grateful for is…

With the coming of 2020, what are you grateful for as you look back into the whole of 2019? What top three things of the year make your list?

Mine are (1) the birth of Ada Miriam Herron Freedman on April 14; (2) no more bladder cancer due to immunotherapy; and (3) sharing my 80th birthday with my daughter and her husband (from Barcelona), my brother and sister-in-law (from Israel) and local family and friends in October.