Posts Tagged ‘gratitude’

How to Live Artfully

I met someone recently who knows how to live.You know the type: self-possessed, confident, the kind of person who energizes a room. The kind of person who is alive to everything around them, who makes everyone they focus their attention on feel they could do more, they could be more. A natural-born leader who brings out the best in everyone without any apparent effort. Apparently fearless, they inspire by example… Continue reading

December 17 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: art, attention, creativitiy, curiosity, gratitude, inspiration, life, living | 23 comments»

We Need to Challenge our Children

A Personal Story I went to a Catholic boys school in Blackpool in the North of England. In my first year in the senior school I was a nerdy kid, with spectacles and short trousers. For one hour a week the class had elocution lessons from an old, portly teacher called Mr Priestley. He had a hard task wrestling with our flat northern vowels and trying to get us… Continue reading

December 11 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: achievement, challenge, children, education, gratitude, learn, lesson | 4 comments»

Lifehack’s Guide to Gratitude, Giving Thanks, and Thanksgiving

It’s Thanksgiving time in the US, a time for reflection on the blessings that make our lives worth living. Over the years, Lifehack’s writers have has a lot to say on the topic of gratitude, giving thanks, and – of course – Thanksgiving. The Power of Giving Thanks Change the World, One Thank-You Note at a Time When Esquire writer Tom Chiarella decided to send handwritten thank you notes to friends, acquaintances… Continue reading

November 26 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: gratitude, thankfulness, thanking, thanksgiving | 6 comments»

How to Be Happier with What You Have

“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.” - Benjamin FranklinMisery shouldn’t be the price for ambition. Somewhere I believe many people got the idea that to want more, you have to be dissatisfied with what you have now. Believing this, your choice is either to dampen your… Continue reading

September 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: gratitude, habits, happiness, Lifehack, self-help | 18 comments»

Change The World: One Thank-you Note At A Time

Tom Chiarella at Esquire became fed up with the haphazard nature we tend to throw thank-you's around and decided he would make a statement. A hundred or so statements.

Over the course of a month or so, Tom would send personal thank-you notes; physical, handwritten paper notes; to people he wanted to thank. Not only people he knew and saw regularly, but strangers and brief acquaintances.His hope was to make… Continue reading

August 17 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gratitude, thankyou | 3 comments»

Power of Gratitude

“We thank you for our daily bread” - People all over the world of varied religions thank the Lord on a daily basis in their prayers and actions. We teach our children to say thank you as soon as the little angles can talk. But do we understand what these two words really mean. Saying thank you and feeling gratitude may not be the same thing.In today’s hectic… Continue reading

May 28 2007 | By Vishal | Tagged: feeling, gratitude, positive | 7 comments»

Universal Values to be Grateful For

Happy Thanksgiving!In many homes across the globe people are giving thanks, and talking about those people, places and things they appreciate and are most grateful for. It’s a wonderful Thanksgiving Day practice, one that would transform us all into kinder, gentler, and more appreciative human beings if only we did it more often.Seven days ago, I asked you to “choose values” to help you “get everything else you need… Continue reading

November 23 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: appreciation, choices, gratitude, thankfulness, thanksgiving, values | no comments»