Welcome to all my new subscribers and my 5000 loyal readers who have been with me for the past 20 years.

When we mindfully notice how far we have come, what we have gathered around us or inherited, sought and secured, created and maintained, things become more nuanced. A deeper appreciation of ourselves and our unique life and circumstances come to the fore. 

The hamster wheel stops, black and white turns to Technicolor and we see things differently - and Specsavers played no part.

The striving for more, to feel in deficit and the relentless pushing forward into the future rubbishes the now; which is all we have.

If you want to supercharge your gratitude practice but don’t know where to start here’s a quick user’s guide.

Start right now by noticing

Write down three things in the morning you are grateful for that day and do the same in the evening. What were the highlights? Stuck for ideas other than “I’m still here” then here is a Gratitude Guide for all things magically mundane but deceptively gorgeous:

Your at a glance gratitude check list

·       Cat’s purr/puppy breath

·       Supermarket check-out chat

·       Leftover pizza

·       Happy hour

·       Looser fitting jeans

·       Getting a bargain

·       A new pot plant

·       Great literature

·       The kindness of strangers

·       The opportunity to show kindness

·       Eating dessert first

·       Hot showers with great products

·       Hugs and kisses

·       A duvet day

·       Sweet smelling laundry on the line on a fine day

·       Dead heading in the garden or house

·       Pottering

·       Creative loafing with nothing in the diary

·       A message from a friend from long ago

·       Someone daring to reach out

·       Marx Brothers’ movies

·       A genuine apology

·       A good pen and lovely stationery

·       Compliments

·       A convenient parking space

·       No check-out queues

·       Someone actually being helpful at customer services

·       Long bath, book, candle and a glass of wine

·       Not being in pain

·       Unexpected windfalls

·       People “treating” you for a change

·       Change of season

·       Online shopping

·       Firelight

·       Slow cooker meals

·       Cashmere

·       Perfume

·       Girls night out

·       Cocktails

·       House to yourself

·       The smell of coffee brewing

·       Winning an argument

·       Soup

·       Nice underwear

·       New socks

·       Walk in nature

·       Gorgeously impractical footwear

·       Laughter

·       Sorting out an old jewellery box

·       Realising you feel peaceful and worry free

Please send me your unusual things you are grateful for and I will flag them up next week. I would love to know them.

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About Carole Ann Rice

Carole Ann is an award winning journalist, media consultant and high profile coach, with over 20 years' coaching experience with private clients and major organisations such as the London School of Economics and Play England.

She co-wrote Start Your Dream Business and Find Your Dream Job which are available from Amazon.

She is the winner of 'Best Coach' in the Best Business Women's Awards 2017.

She is also MD of the Pure Coaching Academy which is an accredited (IIC&M) 8 week life coach training course where she trains people to become world class coaches. It includes an inclusive coaching manual which is the handbook of any new life coach when starting out.

As her website boldly states "not just another life coach".

Carole Ann Rice | Real Coaching Co | Pure Coaching Academy 

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