Life has been feeling intense, and I feel like I have barely been able to keep up. Unfortunately, whenever I’m in this space, I tend to forget about all the grounding practices that could help keep me upright and find my center.

Yesterday, I realized that my once regular practice of gratitude has not existed in I don’t even know how long. So, today I Recommitted to Gratitude with a big gratitude list.

I was super inspired by Tiffany Pratt, who is a designer + stylist / a rainbow come to life, as she shared her practice of using her mala beads to practice gratitude! She touches all 108 beads and thinks of one thing for each bead until she goes around her entire necklace.

I love this idea so much, that I will be definitely be practicing it daily. Even if I only have time for half of the beads, or 3 of them, or even just 1 – because something is always better than nothing.

Do you have a way you practice gratitude? I’d love to hear about it!

P.S. If you like to hear more from Tiffany, as I so desperately did – she is also featured in this podcast (episode #333 Enter the Glitter Suite)

My life rocks.

Did I really just say that? Kind of obnoxious right? It feels weird to say, and kind of wrong.
But I bet your life kicks butt too.

I don’t often say that my life rocks, nor do I think it. Instead I focus on what’s missing, what’s in the way between me and my ideal life….totally discounting the one I currently have.

But if I actually stop and take it all in – I am beyond blessed. Something that is all too often easy to forget.

I am building a beautiful home with the man of my dreams, have supportive and rock solid family & friends, a satisfying job, spent last week snowboarding & this week in Mexico City with my dear friend and… well you get the picture.

So go ahead and make your list. Jot down the things that shimmer and shine in your life. A deceivingly simple task with super charged benefits. Keep it somewhere safe and refer to it when you feel like you are just in the muck.

Of course there will always be areas and things that you wish to improve… And that is the sweet stuff, the stuff that keeps us interested, engaged and fully alive. So instead of discounting everything that is – when I find myself intensely desiring everything that is not. I do my best to refer to my list, and would love some company when things get murky.