You probably have been seeing things about gratitude in emails, Facebook posts, and every other venue possible.  It’s that time of year.  And while being reminded to give thanks is useful, when it is so commercialized it can sometimes stay at the surface – “Oh yeah, I am grateful for my job, my spouse, my house, my family….”

My challenge to you is not just to take it deeper, but also to point your gratitude in the direction you rarely remember to do—YOU!  Every day for this next month invest five minutes listing or journalling all the things you are grateful for about yourself.  Oh I know, we have been conditioned to be grateful for everyone and everything else, but not ourselves. Find something about you to praise, today. You might risk being considered egotistic or worse narcissistic! Yet, you will find you have infinitely more gratitude for others when you are grateful for yourself.

Let me know what surprises you find in this exercise (you will), what gems you uncover about yourself (they are many) AND what starts to shift in your outer world as you start to recognize your worth and value in it (it will).

Please share your surprise finds on my Facebook Page. We are building a community of empowered women, share your wins for  us all to be boosted by them!