I bought a gratitude journal for myself from an independent bookstore. I got the idea to gratitude journal from a really put-together woman in one of my book groups. She shared that she gratitude journals every day.
I didn’t actually plan to buy the gratitude journal from an independent bookstore. My neighbor’s kid is either her student body president or her class president, I’m not sure which, but they were having a fundraiser at a local book store. 10% of the proceeds from book sales one day went to pay for the Model UN trip coming up.
The local book store was very cute, and I felt great supporting local, but they didn’t have the mainstream best-sellers I needed to read for any of the five book groups I accidentally joined. Instead, I bought some books for kids, Steve Martin Writes the Written Word in hard cover (hardcover! a splurge I would never make if it weren’t for this fundraiser), a needling kit that will teach me to needle the phrase “Doing my best,” and this gratitude journal.
I sort of hate this gratitude journal! It’s the one thing I’m not super grateful for! I’m generally very grateful, so much so that I’m always terrified that I will lose all the pieces I’m grateful for and everything will fall apart at any minute.
There’s a section I am supposed to fill out every day labelled “How focusing on gratitude made me feel:” and I do not fill out this section, because the answer is “anxious.” I leave it blank.
You’re supposed to fill it out twice a day: once in the morning with your focus and things you’re grateful for, and once in the evening to reflect. There’s also a section for “A positive thought to carry me to sleep,” and I have never filled out that field. I have lots of positive thoughts. Maybe I’ll start filling that one out.
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