Go Confidently: Gratitude

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Gratitude

There has been quite a bit written lately about the importance of gratitude. If you deliberately attempt to embrace gratitude on a daily basis, it is supposed to promote happiness. Instead of making any resolutions when the calendar turned to 2015, I decided to have a gratitude jar. There are also gratitude journals in which you list up to five things every day for which you are grateful. I decided it would be good to see the jar as I go about my day so it would jog my thoughts of gratitude.

I must admit that some days it can be difficult to come up with a concrete thing to add to the jar; especially on cold winter days. If you can't come up with some thing new, there is always health, family and life itself.

Thought for the day: Gratitude is not the only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Cicero

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord MA. His father operated a pencil factory, and his mother took in boarders. He attended Harvard where he studied Greek, Latin and German. After college, Ralph Waldo Emerson became his mentor and friend. Through Emerson, he was exposed to Transcendentalism, a school of thought that emphasizes empirical thinking and spiritual matters over the physical world. It also encourages scientific inquiry and observation.
In 1845, Thoreau built a small home on Walden Pond. He spent two years there seeking a simpler life and experimented with working as little as possible. He once wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." He later wrote his famous book, Walden Pond.
He was against slavery, and his 1849 publication of "Civil Disobedience" influenced Martin Luther King, Jr and Gandhi.
He battled tuberculosis and died in 1862.