My Gladitude Journal
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy
By Ann Morrow

Do not measure success by today’s harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

A month after purchasing my gratitude journal, I marched into the kitchen and threw it in the trashcan. Writing in it every day felt like a silly addition to my already overwhelming to-do list. Besides, I had been keeping a “normal” journal for years. Why add another?

My friend and mentor urged me to give it another shot. He said that writing down a few things to be thankful for was different from free writing. For the next month, I found myself ending each day by staring at a blank page, wracking my brain for five things to write down. Sadly, after collecting more dust than words, that journal suffered the same fate as the first. Years would pass before “daily gratitudes” became a regular practice for me. (Keep reading)