Being thankful for small things isn’t settling. It’s training your eyes for big ones.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Noticing small things is eye training, not a downgrade of your ambitions. If you cannot see what is good about an ordinary Tuesday, you will not suddenly become able to see it when something impressive arrives, because the equipment is the same in both cases. People who get the thing they wanted and feel nothing usually never practiced on the small stuff.
Keep your plans as large as they are. Then practice on something minor today, and notice that wanting more and appreciating this are not in competition.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Where have you mistaken being content for giving up?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- An inside joke that’s been running since middle school is a kind of friendship wealth you can’t fake.
- Your town’s library, park and pool were paid for by people who mostly never met you. Use them well.
- Holiday recipes nobody wrote down are family history you can taste. Stand in the kitchen and learn one.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.