Daily Practice Space

Grateful living is an orientation to life that is supported through practice. Begin your journey with our library of daily practices including Stop.Look.Go.  Additional offerings include our Word For the Day and Daily Question, eCards, Light a Candle, Private Gratitude Journal, and poetry collection.

Word for the Day

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Service doesn’t start when we have something to give — it blossoms naturally when we have nothing left to take.

— Nipun Mehta

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Daily Question

Foundational Practice

Stop.Look.Go.

Br. David Steindl-Rast’s simple and powerful Stop.Look.Go practice serves as a foundation for living gratefully on a daily basis. Through regular practice, Stop.Look.Go will lead you to experience increased presence, a more expansive perspective, and a greater sense of possibility in your daily life.

Explore Daily Practices for Grateful Living

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Practices

Practice Compassion: Understanding in Action

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This practice encourages you to move from empathy to compassion, from feeling with others to…
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Practices

Three Appointments with Joy

by Sheryl Chard, Grateful Living
This practice of noticing, naming, and making time for joy offers a quick way to…
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Practices

Discovering Meaning in Every Moment

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This three-step reflective practice will help you find the meaning that already exists in your…
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Practices

Leaning into Uncertainty and Mystery

by Sheryl Chard, Grateful Living
This practice includes three simple strategies for remaining open to possibility, wonder, and mystery in…
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Practices

Create Belonging: Make an Improbable Friend

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
A daily practice to create belonging by connecting with someone whose perspective differs from your…
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Practices

You Are Here: Awakening to the Opportunities of Today

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
A daily practice to empower yourself by awakening to the opportunities of the day ahead…

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Zen Frogscape

by Lang Elliott
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Prayer Flags

by Linda Hannum
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Wood Thrush Dawn Chorus

by Lang Elliott
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Sunset Waves

by Linda Hannum
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Smokey Mountain Waterfall

by The Grateful Living Team
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