I’m trying to practice daily gratitude.
With everything that’s been going on around us, it’s not easy. But as a Spiritual Entrepreneur I find it essential to practice what I preach.
For my own health and well being, as well as the knock on effects it would have on my students, readers, and community if I was trying to energetically fake it in some way.
Gratitude has been part of my evening routine for a while now, but I’ve let it slip due to exhaustion and overwhelm.
I really need it, and undoubtedly benefit from the practice when I’m doing it, but isn’t that often the situation in which we self sabotage, even just a little – when we need a thing the most?
The following talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. I found it extremely useful for refocusing on gratitude, and I hope you do too.
Hailey Bartholomew found the secret to happiness.
After struggling to enjoy and appreciate all of the great things in her life she set our on a year long photography project to find gratitude everyday. In this funny and moving talk see what lessons we can all learn from her experience.
Hailey can lay claim to the titles of photographer, author, director, social commentator and artist. The owner and creative director of her own business, she has clients than span the globe as a photographer and as a director. She has published two books so far in her career, and directed television commercials and visual presentations for major national brands and charities.
But within this eclectic, and brilliant appetite for creative realization, Hailey’s favored passion is documentary film making.
Hailey has a beautiful visual style and sensitivity with her subjects, perfect for allowing a story to evolve and flourish on film and in photographs. Hailey will be joining TEDxQUT to share her experiences with the transformative power of gratitude and the 365 grateful project.
Try the 10 day exercise suggested in this video.
Every evening, take out your journal, or open a new file on your phone or computer, and scan through your day.
Figure out what you’re grateful for, and write about it. A line, a paragraph, a page.
Record your daily gratitude.
You really do find what you are looking for.
