Gratitude
I have given up on keeping a gratitude journal about 10 times. I would try. Stick with coming up with 3 things I was grateful for every day for a month. Then I would stop. It never really made me feel better. The only thing it accomplished was to check off another ‘should’ from my list. Honestly keeping a gratitude journal just gave me a reason to feel bad about myself. I would think: “Why is it so hard to come up with my three things?’ “How long before I actually feel grateful for this stuff?’ “Why am I so ungrateful for the gifts that God has given me?” “What’s wrong with me?” “I am a bad person.” Okay that is a bit dramatic but I do know that actually trying to keep a gratitude journal and having it fail did make me feel bad. So I stopped trying years ago. The issue was that people I respect would say that gratitude is a requirement for living a fulfilled life. I believed them. It makes a lot o...