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.
We encourage you to bookmark this page and visit it each day to maintain a thriving mindset. Our dream is one billion happier people and one thing is for certain - we need a movement to make this happen and hope you’ll invite your network to join us here. As a community, we will master grateful leadership and together we will help populate our workplaces and the world with one billion happier people.
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Guest Contributor for week of November 2 - Vatsal Sood
Resilient Speakers
Resilient Speakers Consulting helps entrepreneurs and consultants turn speaking into their best lead-generation channel. I’m Vatsal Sood, a Halifax-based keynote speaker, TEDx speaker coach, and competitive Toastmaster. I spent a decade as a web developer before taking the stage, so I know what it’s like to be brilliant behind a screen and terrified in front of a room. Inside our Skool community, entrepreneurs learn to tell stories that build authority, move past the fear of speaking, and turn a stage (or a Zoom call) into paying clients. No theory dumps, just practical reps alongside people doing the same. My approach is lived, not learned: storytelling through adversity and laughter. People forget slides, but they remember how you made them feel.
Ready to get on more stages? Come say hi at vatsalsood.com.
Why gratitude is important to me
I’m Vatsal, a speaker and coach in Halifax who helps people find their voice. I also spent a decade as a web developer, so I know what it’s like to be brilliant behind a screen and terrified in front of a room. For a long time, my brain ran on a scoreboard of what I didn’t have: the stage I hadn’t landed, the milestone I hadn’t hit, the person I wasn’t yet. Gratitude flipped the scoreboard.
When I started noticing what was already here, I realized how much the universe had handed me: the people who believed in me, the stages I’ve stood on, the stories I’ve lived through. Lack got quieter. Abundance got louder. Gratitude made me more generous, not just more positive. It’s hard to hold on tightly when you feel like you already have enough. Gratitude is a daily rep, not a personality trait.
Learn more here.
October’s pulse came in at 4.17 out of 5, our lowest reading since we've doing the monthly pulse survey. More of you than usual said you’re feeling less grateful, so it’s a good moment to ask what’s weighing on people and what small acts of appreciation could help.
