The first time I read “It is not happy people who are grateful… it is grateful people who are happy,” my center of balance shifted. I’d been searching for success, happiness, fulfillment… wondering what more I needed to do and be to reach happiness?
I’ve learned that happiness is a choice. My consistent path back to happiness, when I go astray, is through gratitude. I write in my Journal not just “what” or “who” I am grateful for, but also “why”… and realize the abundance I am blessed with. When I reach out to say “thanks” to the people to whom I am grateful, my joy is magnified!
And now, with ThankU.io, I can tell the whole world what great things others have done for me! I can thank Mr. White in 8th grade math who taught me the quadratic formula (50 years ago!) and the kind stranger who stopped for me on the highway when I had a flat tire.
Are you grateful too?
ThankU.io is as a forum designed for you to send out your gratitude, and to receive back gratitude from those you’ve helped, in a simple and public way.
Take a few minutes to tell that special person in your world – your teacher, a coach, boss, colleague, sister, brother, mom, dad – just how grateful you are. *Added bonus, you might just capture, for yourself, a bit of the happiness that gratitude brings
