Welcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. So this afternoon, I ran a virtual workshop for some employees, uh, from a small company based out of Northern Virginia. And I tried an activity that I only tried once before I learned this one from Chad little field who owns a business called we and me. He facilitates connection.

Activities and events as well. And he calls this activity breakout blackout. So the group I was with was virtual. So we were all on zoom. And so if you're not familiar, a breakout is when you're on a virtual meeting using a platform like zoom and you break out in the smaller groups in a separate room.

Well in the breakout blackout, you're in a virtual room by yourself. Yep. That's right. You're in your own virtual breakout room. So, what do you do in there? Well, it depends on the purpose of the meeting, et cetera, but of course I facilitate gratitude and connection workshops. So, what I did was I had the participant search for an interesting or surprising fact about gratitude.

They each had three minutes to find a unique fact about gratitude and then share it with the rest of the group.

So everybody got into their own breakout room yet they were by themselves, which is perfect for the introvert among us. They found an interesting fact about gratitude and when they returned to the main room, Uh, everybody typed what they found and the chat, and some people shared verbally. It was awesome. And I learned a couple things about gratitude that I didn't know.

Such as people are less likely to express gratitude at work than anywhere else. And gratitude is good for your cholesterol. Just want to pass this along in case it's useful for your next virtual meeting. I am Scott Colby with say it with gratitude. And this has been the daily gratitude minute. Cheers.