The Daily Gratitudes
A gratitude list is the foundation of a Habitual Ritual
This is the place to hone your Habitual Ritual.
Here you can practice the two key habits in the Habitual Ritual:
Make a list of what you’re grateful for - by posting your gratitudes as a comment below
Consume other people’s gratitudes - by reading a few posts of what others are grateful for. Feel free to respond to any gratitude with a comment.
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Guest Contributor for week of July 6 - Carolyn Stern
Carolyn Stern & Associates
Carolyn Stern is the President & CEO of EI Experience—an executive leadership development & emotional intelligence training firm. She is on a mission to help leaders become emotionally strong, so they can improve communication, build trust, embrace change, & create organizations where people want to stay & grow. She’s a globally recognized emotional intelligence expert, Certified Speaking Professional®, corporate trainer, executive coach, award-winning author, university professor, & entrepreneur. For more than three decades, Carolyn has studied, taught, & applied emotional intelligence across education, leadership development, & business, training more than 150,000 leaders across North America. Her award-winning book, The Emotionally Strong Leader, received the Axiom Book Award for Best Business Book in Leadership & the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Career category. She has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc.com, The Social, CTV Your Morning, Global TV, & OWN.
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Why gratitude is important to me
Gratitude is important to me because it helps me slow down and pay attention. In a world that often rewards rushing, achieving, and moving on to the next thing, gratitude invites me to pause and notice what is already meaningful.
For me, gratitude is not about pretending everything is perfect. It is about choosing to see what is still good, still possible, and still worth appreciating — even in seasons of change, uncertainty, grief, growth, and reinvention.
As someone who teaches emotional intelligence, I see gratitude as a practice of awareness. It helps us recognize not only what we have, but also who has helped us, what has shaped us, and what we may otherwise take for granted.
Gratitude helps me return to perspective, purpose, and connection. It reminds me to lead with more compassion, live with more intention, and notice the quiet beauty that is often right in front of me.
Monday July 6, 2026
Summer vacation
Today is the quasi-official start of my summer vacation. Even though I do a bit of work over the summer, July and August are months for stepping back and recharging.
Today I’m grateful for:
when we don't need heat or AC in our home
the smell of a freshly mowed lawn - and the sounds of lawnmowers in the morning
having flexibility in my work to be able to step back like this
What are you grateful for today ?