Creating a gratitude habit: Questions to inspire you

Gratitude involves the ability to notice, appreciate, and savour. When we intentionally apply attention to being grateful or expressing a gratitude, we can increase enjoyment of experiences and in turn there is an increase in strengths such as kindness, appreciation, perspective, and optimism that enhance our wellbeing. There are many different ways to do this. In this post I share some strategies and a list of questions to scaffold and support your expression of a gratitude to yourself.

Reframing how my days look: Screen, green, me and down time

How we spend our time is remarkably different right now. To be kinder to myself I am thinking about my day like this:

Screen time

Green time

Me time

Down time

A strengths based approach to goal setting

I had the privilege this morning of working with a group of final year pre-service teachers preparing to enter their last professional experience (time in the classroom where theory and practice are put into action). Our focus today was goal setting, and we approached this by exploring our ideas around what it means to be a teacher and our why of being a teacher closely connected to who we are right now as teachers as this identify formation is occurring. One of the key aspects of this was working to our strengths and extending our knowledge and language around how we can do this.

Mindfulness helps us with the how of using our strengths

When we are mindful we better use our strengths. Mindfulness offers the how for the practice of strengths . It reminds us of being intentional.

Digging deeper into boundary setting: questions to help you

If we are being present with a boundary setting, then we need to be present with the process.

Mindful connection to the everyday

Mindfulness is not just about meditation. Although a wonderful practice, or strategy if you like