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Daily Question, April 7

How does living gratefully help me navigate life’s ups and downs?

  • Nina

    It helps me to count my blessings and have a positive outlook on my circumstances and relationships in general. I am very grateful for my blessings and often because I take the time to pause and reflect, I can pass along my positive outlook.

  • Ann Marie

    Being grateful for all the times spent with my sweet sister who passed away last month. Being physically and emotionally present during her battle with cancer was an honor, to help, to sit quietly, to provide care…While I mourn, I also am constantly reminded of her and special times we shared.

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    it does help when I feel I have nothing, then I realize there are something I have to be proud of and happy about

  • Delphine

    Living gratefully has taught me that there are positive things even in the worst day. Just because I am having a bad day or going through a though period doesn’t mean that I can’t be grateful for everything else that I have experienced in life and for the people around me

  • Malag

    Noticing, appreciating and being grateful for the everyday things helps anchor in the now so I don’t live as much in an if/when: if this were different I could live my life; when things change I’ll be happy etc.

  • Linda

    I am deeply grateful for all my friendships with high quality women. I know they will be there for me if and when I need them, and I will be there for them.

  • Kristin
    Living, quite deliberately, gratefully (which I can only do in fits and starts, of course. Sometimes I enjoy a good wallow in "living ungratefully")... Deliberately grateful living has helped me navigate life's up and downs because because I have invested effort in noticing the things for which I am (often absentmindedly) grateful. In cultivating this "noticing", there appears to be MORE things to be grateful for than when I wasn't paying attention. Similarly, when I cultivate an ungrateful a...

    Living, quite deliberately, gratefully (which I can only do in fits and starts, of course. Sometimes I enjoy a good wallow in “living ungratefully”)… Deliberately grateful living has helped me navigate life’s up and downs because because I have invested effort in noticing the things for which I am (often absentmindedly) grateful. In cultivating this “noticing”, there appears to be MORE things to be grateful for than when I wasn’t paying attention. Similarly, when I cultivate an ungrateful attitude, there is a pain in the arse on every corner and my life seems stricken on all sides by evidence of Murphy’s Law at work. I guess it’s all down to the wolf you feed, eh?

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  • Jerrie

    Gratefulness keeps me on a more positive path through life. It helps me when I’m down reminding me to think of my blessings. Stay safe and well in this uncertain time. ????

  • Vincent-Edward Ciliberti

    Gratefulness is about thanking all those heroes who willingly are attending to their duties in the hope that the present world circumstances change and we could return to normality.

  • TeriB

    Living gratefully has made me more appreciate of life’s ups and has taught me that everything that happens has a purpose. There is so much to learn during difficult times and if I search with a grateful heart my perspective can change.

  • Hot Sauce

    Living gratefully helps me remember that every up is-well-an up, while every down is an opportunity to learn, grow, and apply the lesson. Hardship helps me grow in resilience, wisdom, overcoming, and new ways of looking at life.

  • GCharlotte

    By living gratefully I do not take anything for granted. My up days are relished with thanks and not forgotten because I am grateful making my down days much easier to pass through.

  • Mark Piper

    It’s wonderful to realize and practice the reality that gratefulness is not a corollary or dependent variable to the things of life that take up most of our times and worries. Gratitude like love can remain, while bank account balances rise and fall, while some relationships flourish or flounder; while emotions ebb-and-flow, I can still be grateful for where there is life (even suffering life) gratefulness exists, not in amounts, it just simply exists.

  • Javier Visionquest

    Take your losses in Autumn, combine weak colonies.
    Make splits and expand the apiary from strong survivor colonies (if any) in Spring. Gratefully accept swarms that arrive, unbidden, and move in without lifting a single human finger.
    I’m a beekeeper, whether I like it or not.

  • Carla

    Living gratefully right sizes me to know that ALL is a gift from the God of my understanding.

  • Katrina

    I am grateful for age, life experiences and wisdom that help me navigate life’s ups and downs with gratitude.

  • reality

    It aids in my studies of humility, etc., as well as helping me deal with being tortured and assassinated every millisecond. Thanx for all you All do and have a good eve’ 🙂 reality

  • Michele

    I agree with Sarah. I make sure to be grateful each and every day and try to remember that no matter how bad it is for me, someone has it worse somewhere else.

  • Pilgrim

    Gratitude is me set point and my re-set point. Lately when my worries and fears start getting out of control, I remind myself of what I am and have been grateful for. Sort of returning to center, breathing, breathing again, moving forward. Or sitting still …

  • devy

    Living gratefully allows me to maintain control of my emotions especially the anxiety and the fear of the future. It teaches me to except that life has its ups and downs, that I can’t control the bad things. It is better for my own mental and physical health to concentrate and in what I can control, yes to acknowledge but to except what is happening. I focus on all the things that I do have, of all the things that I can do and share in my life.

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