A non-cheesy guide to gratefulness: What to read and watch

For the upcoming holidays, a link from the TED Blog:

A non-cheesy guide to gratefulness: What to read and watch

Offers 11 unique suggestions and includes the following video:

 

How can each one of us find a method for living gratefully, not just once in a while being grateful, but moment by moment to be grateful. How can we do it? It’s a very simple method. It’s so simple that it’s actually what we were told as children when we learned to cross the street. Stop. Look. Go. That’s all. But how often do we stop? We rush through life. We don’t stop. We miss the opportunity because we don’t stop. We have to stop. We have to get quiet.And we have to build stop signs into our lives. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Want more ideas on how to add gratitude to your life?

Daily Grateful Living Practice Ideas

30 Daily Grateful Living Practices for you to try including:

Choose a poem that speaks to you and read it a few times in a day. Let it awaken a new experience each time you read it. Notice how no poem is the same poem twice if you read it with true presence. Share the poem with someone.

Top Ten Reasons to Beware the Ides of March

The Death of Julius Caesar. Vincenzo Camuccini. 1804-1805. Oil on canvas. Via Wiki Commons.
The Death of Julius Caesar. Vincenzo Camuccini. 1804-1805. Oil on canvas. Via Wiki Commons.

“Beware the ides of March.”
― William ShakespeareJulius Caesar

Top Ten Reasons to Beware the Ides of March

March 15 will live in infamy beyond the murder of Julius Caesar. Here are 10 events that occurred on that date … (read more via Smithsonian.com)