Did you know that you take gratitude for granted? Learn more in this episode of Everyday Happiness! 

 

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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in about 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and what happens when we ‘phone it in’ - you know, like we’re saying the words in our gratitude practice, but we almost start to expect it and it seems very auto-pilot.  

 

This was a conversation I had with Stephanie, a Margin Maker in the Intentional Margins® community.  (That’s what we call the members in our community)  She expressed how she wondered if she was taking gratitude for granted.  That’s an interesting thought.  It can become routine and pretty soon your gratitude is on auto-pilot. I am grateful for my spouse or partner, the kids, the food on the table, the place that I live, my health, day after day.  All things you are grateful for, no doubt, but it’s routine. 

 

During our discussion we uncovered that perhaps, gratitude also has peaks and valleys, and it’s natural to find yourself on auto-pilot every now and then.  We questioned whether anyone can be truly grateful in this peak of awareness all the time.   I think feeling gratitude can seem less sincere when you are phoning it in.  

 

I invite you to check in with your gratitude practice, ask yourself, is this becoming auto-pilot?  Are there things I can do to shake it up?  For me, I’m going back to the tiny little things that I often overlook and focusing on that for a while during my gratitude practice.  So it could look like one day, focusing on the kids, but instead of saying the children, I am going to dig deeper and peel the layers of why.  What is it specifically about one of the children right now that gives me all the gratitude feels.  My goal is to feel that gratitude again when focusing more intently on peeling back the layers.  

 

I’d love to know if this technique works for you and how your gratitude practice is going, so reach out to me @everydayhappinesswithkatie on Instagram.  

 

And remember, kindness is contagious.

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