Welcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. We are off to 2023. Hopefully your year is off to a great start. I know we're only a couple days in, but wanted to again, wish you a happy New Year. Last, uh, week I told you about a family that I was supposed to take out on a gratitude hike.

It got canceled because the roads were closed, so we went into a coffee shop. We just had a family gratitude session for a couple hours. It was wonderful. We played the Grateful Deck. We had great conversations. We wrote handwritten notes. I wanted to let you know if something else that we did. Now, it wasn't me doing this.

This was the family. So this was my friend Matt, uh, who lives in Michigan and his wife and two daughters. Every, every year during the holidays, they take time to kind of reflect. The year that's just ending. And they set goals and intentions for the new year, which I love it. They do this as a family. I think their two daughters were, are, are 16 and I think the other one's 13, but I, I'm not quite 100% sure.

Anyway, I love what they do as a family. They pick a word for the year and they really focus on that word. make decisions throughout the year based on, Hey, is this in alignment with the word that we've chosen for the year? Now, I've heard of some of my colleagues doing this, uh, and I've actually done it myself, but I've never heard a family coming together picking one word for the entire family, and I love that.

And I think that could be something. that could really bring families together, right? I think, you know, playing the Grateful Deck can do that. Writing handwritten notes as a, as a family can do that, having great conversations at the dinner table. But have you ever thought about picking a word for the year and having the entire family have that as their word?

I actually love that. What they did, um, and their word that they picked for 2023 is, Uh, so they're trying to, you know, see how they can more make more impact on the world, but also in their own personal life. So, uh, just wanted to share that with you. Maybe that gives you some inspiration about how you and your family can work towards some common goals this year.

I'm Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude, and this has been the Daily Gratitude Minute. Cheers.