Your Daily Gratitude List – How To Create One And Why It Helps You Become A Positive Person

Today, I decided to start what I hope will become a long habit: I am creating a gratitude list for the day. It’s easy to focus on the negative in our lives and forget just how good we have it sometimes, so I thought I’d share this new habit with you in the hope that some of you may join in and create your own.

How Can A Daily Gratitude List Help You To Become More Positive?

Before we even get around to creating a daily gratitude list, it helps to understand how it’ll help. On the most basic level, it helps to take your focus away from what’s bad in life, as the good things become a lot clearer. Sometimes it’s easy to see what’s good, but others times, not so much.

When you go to a basic level (e.g. health, food, warmth, electricity, shelter), you find that you probably do have it better than a large percentage of the world’s population.

On a deeper level, however, I also believe that this positive act – performed daily – will help to re-train your brain away from automatically thinking the negative, towards the positive side of life. This is what I’m hoping it’ll do for me.

How To Create Your Daily Gratitude List

You may be thinking you don’t have anything to be grateful for today, but you’re wrong. Yes, a gratitude list could contain big items like winning the lottery, but it can also be as basic as being grateful you ate a hot meal today, or that you have warm, comfortable clothes to wear. Anything goes: this is your personal list!

You can also write down the things you want in your life as if you already have them (which is a method taught in The Secret Movie.

Whatever you do, though, make sure you have at least five items. Maybe you’ll struggle at first, but I guarantee you do have five things to be grateful for! And write it down because it helps reinforce what you’re thinking, and gives you something to refer back to when you’re feeling low.

My Gratitude List For Today

I’m writing quite a long list today, only because I want to give you some good examples, and because I won’t be posting my gratitude lists publicly every day.

Today, I am grateful for…

1. The sunshine,
2. My dog for keeping me company,
3. My tasty lunch,
4. The feeling of fresh water when I’m thirsty,
5. My family,
6. Having someone to talk to about things that matter,
7. Socks,
8. My business,
9. Earning money,
10. Being able to write blog posts like this,
11. Coca cola,
12. That writing this list is making me smile,
13. Having people who read my words,
14. My home keeping me warm,
15. My plans to travel in future,
16. The fact that I have the ability to travel,
17. My favorite TV programs,
18. Red wine,
19. Books that help me to relax,
20. Being loved,
21. My health,
22. My long hair,
23. The changing seasons,
24. Silence,
25. The computer I’m typing on,
26. The internet,
27. My iPhone,
28. The fact that I’ve learned that I don’t need things like my iPhone to be happy (but I enjoy them anyway),
29. My glasses,
30. Electricity.

Your Gratitude List

Now you’ve seen my gratitude list you can see that anything counts! But it won’t count until you actually sit down and write one. It can be personal or, if you feel like sharing, why not post it in the comment section below?