Thanksgiving, the holiday, is often lost in food and family. What is lost? Our opportunity to experience gratitude. The chance to really give thanks.

Many times, it can feel like an obligation. Instead, I suggest we see it as an opportunity. Even in tough moments (actually, especially in tough moments), we can make a shift from fear to thanks, from lack to sufficiency.

Over the years of my podcast, I have repeated this theme, both on Thanksgiving episodes and elsewhere. Below is a list of the various episodes around thanksgiving and gratitude. Just click each one to listen to the episodes.

Why Thankful?

Why Being Thankful Matters

Giving Thanks: Thriving Through Gratitude

What Thriving People Know About Gratitude And Appreciation

Living Your Engagement

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In the States, this Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. What’s the point, right? Let’s just jump on into Christmas season! The stores are already bustling and everything seems to be bursting with green and red.

I have nothing against Christmas. But I do think there is an important pause, a moment. A time to be thankful. Not to just say a quick word of thanks, then dive into a gut-busting meal. But to be thankful.

To practice gratitude.

Why?

Because our brain’s default is on scarcity, not abundance — what we DON’T have, not what we HAVE. Where we AREN’T, not where we ARE.

It’s a matter of mindshift. A choice to shift to abundance, gratitude, and thankfulness. Not just allowing our default setting to take over, looking at the scarcity and the lack. At what scares us.

In this week’s Thriveology Podcast, I discuss “Why Thankful?” Why should we even make the shift?

I wish you a very thoughtful, thankful day filled with gratitude, wherever you are!

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