Gratitude is a powerful way to improve almost any situation or relationship. Every year in November, I offer my readers 30 days of gratitude in My Gratitude Project.
Recounting my experience as a purpose-driven entrepreneur, my story provides a blueprint for using entrepreneurship to make the world better.
Some days I think: This is impossible. Other days I look at the same task and think: This is possible, but it’s going to take a lot of work.
When I first started my Gratitude Project, I debated whether to include my gratitude for technology. Now in quarantine, I’m developing a new appreciation for tech.
I’m a Prine fan from way back,. He has a nostalgic tone and home-focused appreciation of internal emotional states that is speaking to us and even our kids right now.
Just like comfort food, we all have comfort things: those few things we’ve had forever that never let us down.
Soap. It’s a wonderfully low-tech solution in a high tech world. I’m appreciating soap anew. First of all, there’s the way it smells. Lavender. Lemon verbena. Geranium. Just the clean smell of a pure soap like Ivory makes me feel better. Liquid, bars, or even powdered, I like them all. Anything washed in soap and water suddenly feels healthful, bright, and somehow virtuous. I’m glad to have chemical wipes like Clorox and Purell when I can get them, but my…