Gratitude Day 6

Welcome To Day #6 of 21 Days of Gratitude

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Proactive Gratitude

Do you want to feel good, live a meaningful life and be abundant?

Laura King, a University of Missouri psychologist, says “Quit reading self help books and start helping others.”

Positive Psychology researcher, Keitko Otake and her colleagues, asked participants in a study to keep track of every act of kindness they did for a week. After one week the kindness group felt a boost in happiness and were much happier than the control group.

If you want to receive a tremendous dose of positive energy, challenge yourself to see how many acts of “proactive gratitude” or spontaneous acts of kindness you can do in a week?

These are the small things. Not what you can buy but what you can you do to help and support others. Not the things you feel obligated to do but the things you choose to do with an open heart.

Today’s action steps:

1) Keep track of the small things you do for others for the next week.

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2) For inspiration, visit the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation at:
http://www.actsofkindness.org/

3) Continue your daily list of 5 things that you are grateful for.

Appreciatively,

Elyse