An alphabet of gratitude

A is for…

• Apartment 🗝️
• Adventures 🗺️ 🛫 ✈️
• Art 🌅 🎨

B is for…

• Books 📚
• Balconies 🌇
• Butterflies 🦋

C is for…

• Chalet 🏞
• Clouds ☁️
• Colors 🌈

+Canada 🍁
+a closet with clothes in it 👘

D is for…

• Dishwasher 🛁
• Dolphins 🐬
• Dreams 🌌

E is for…

• Earrings, pearl 💍
• Etherealness 🐚
• Enya ♬

F is for…

• Flowers 🌺
• Forests 🌲 🏞️ 🦌
• Friendship 💖 💕

+a fridge with food in it 🍱

G is for…

• Gardens 🌲🌷🍃
• Grace 🦢
• Goals 🏌️‍♀️

H is for…

• Headphones 🎧
• Health 🥗
• Heart ♥️ ❤️ 💕

I is for…

• Internet 🌎
• Intuition 🔮
• Incandescence 💡

J is for…

• Jiu jitsu 🥋
• Jazz 🎷
• Joy 🤸🏻‍♀️

K is for…

• Me 👩🏻
• Kitesurfing 🏄🏻‍♀️
• Kayaks 🚤

L is for…

• Lakes 🏞️
• Libraries 📖
• Lilac 🌸

M is for…

• Music 🎼
• Mountains 🗻
• Moon 🎑 🌙

+money 💸

N is for…

• Notebooks 🗒️
• Nail clippers 💅🏻
• Norah Jones ♬

+never going back

O is for…

• Oceans 🌊
• Opportunities 👣
• Orchids 🌺

P is for…

• Peace 🕊
• Poise ✨♛
• Pencil, mini 🖊

Q is for…

• Quiet 🕯
• Quebec ⚜
• Quilts 🛌

R is for…

• Rest 🌿
• Reflection ⛲️
• Roses 🌹

S is for…

• Serenity 🪷
• Skating ⛸
• Sunrise 🌅

T is for…

• Tea ☕️
• Trees 🌳
• Time 🕓

U is for…

• Umbrella ☔️
• Underwear, merino 👙
• Unicorns 🦄

V is for…

• Vacuum 🧹
• Vacations 🍹
• Vanilla 🌾🌱

W is for…

• Walking 🧭
• Writing 📜
• Winter ❄️

+Workflowy 📝

X is for…

• X chromosomes 🚻
• Xmas lights 🎄
• X-rays 🩻

Y is for…

• YouTube 🎞 🎬
• Yoga 🧘🏻‍♀️
• Youth 🎡 🎢 🎆

Z is for…

• Zips 👢
• Zen 🍃
• Zabuton ⬜⚪

Why

I used to write down five things I was grateful for each day.

(I got this from CGP Grey, who said “It sounds cheesy, but it works. It really does make you feel happier.”*)

But I found myself listing the same things over and over. I wanted a more organized list. And that’s why I came up with the alphabet of gratitude. (I keep a much longer version on my phone, and add new items as I think of them.)

*He said something like that. It was in one of the Q&A videos. I’ll post the link if I find it.