This New Year’s Eve I won’t be getting dressed up to party with strangers. I know what tradition says I’m supposed to be doing the last night of the year, but I’m a fan of creating my owntraditions. The champagne will still be on deck, but this NYE I’ll be spending some quiet time reflecting on 2015 and reading all the notes I’ve collected in my gratitude jar this year.
You’ve probably heard about people keeping gratitude journals; maybe you even keep one yourself. Oprah – Mama O as I affectionately prefer to call her – swears by her practice of keeping a gratitude journal and writing down five things she’s grateful for each day. Journaling has been a powerful and transformative practice for me since I first started back in ’98, but sometimes you have to switch things up.
Introducing The Gratitude Jar.
I was inspired at the top of the year to start my own jar by one of my favorite writers, Elizabeth Gilbert (the same chick that inspired folks to do more eating, praying and loving). She called hers a Happiness Jar. Now sure, the concept in itself is simple enough: get a jar and add notes to it daily of the things you’re grateful for. Any jar and regular paper will do, making this a super inexpensive ritual.
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