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Could You Use a Gratitude Guide?

Royale Scuderi — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:23:26 +0000

Guided Gratitude journals can be a wonderful tool to aid in your journey towards a more fulfilling life, brimming with appreciation and wonder. If you are new to the concept of cultivating an “Attitude of Gratitude,” or are simply looking for a way to enhance your existing practice of expressing gratitude, here a few of the “guided” journals I recommend. They have prompts, ask thought provoking questions or give other useful ideas to inspire you strengthen your gratitude muscles.

Keep a daily record of life’s little blessings with this keepsake gratitude journal filled with a year’s worth of insightful prompts, inspiring quotes, and ample room for reflecting on all the things that make life great.

Gratitude: A Daily Journal is a year-long, two-part journal that provides a simple framework for your personal expressions of gratitude and acknowledgment. This journal is a powerful tool that will help to raise your consciousness and increase your awareness of the beauty and synchronicity that surround you each day.

The Gratitude Journal is like no other journal. Instead of a blank slate that is overwhelming to some and very un-inspiring, this wonderful journal will help create a positive outlook on who you are and who you want to be. It will help you define your life goals, your dreams and your passions. It will guide you on a journey to finding inner peace, happiness and gratitude for the life we have been given. It is more than a blank slate to write on, it makes you think about simple things and focuses on being positive. It will guide you in simple ways to be happier with yourself and to make the most of your life.

Feeding America’s Hungry Children

Royale Scuderi — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:09:34 +0000

As you are reading this…

…12.4 million American children are living in food insecure households. It seems unreal that in one of the wealthiest nations of the world, little children are still going hungry.

This is a problem we simply can’t ignore. The children are our future, and right now – the future depends on us.

Last year…

…Feeding America’s Hungry Children’s food rescue and distribution system helped provide over 1 million pounds of food to our nation’s needy children and their families.

Through diligent stewardship, Feeding America’s Hungry Children minimizes administrative and fund raising costs; nearly 98.5% of all donations goes directly to feed hungry people.

This organization is an example of how to make a difference in an efficient and effective manor!

Try leveraging!

Royale Scuderi — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:09:27 +0000

What can you leverage or outsource? Are there chores or tasks that you could get someone else to do that would free some of your time or alleviate a portion of your daily or weekly burden? “Wait,” I hear you say, “but I don’t have money for an assistant or a maid!” I get that, and coincidentally neither do I. Let’s think outside the box for a minute. What about your kids (or a neighbor’s,) your spouse or trading with a friend.

In a blinding, but unfortunately rare light bulb flash of insight, I had the idea to “hire” my 10 year old to do my shredding. For some reason I never get around to shredding documents, probably because the task annoys me, but he loves it. So I offered him a penny per page, with a 25 cent minimum to check my office and shred daily. He gets candy money and I get a clear office floor. What a bargain! This week he may learn to copy and file! I have started paying my teens to bathe and groom the dogs and asked my husband to take responsibility for our son’s soccer practice and games. Yes, I still have to do drum lessons, band, tennis and horseback, but at least this one activity is off my plate. I use the soccer practice time to tackle a nagging project each week and it is wonderful!

Do you have to do it all? Just think for one minute. Is there even one thing you could outsource? The caveat to that is that you must relinquish a little control…