Living a Grateful Life (ID #002) Date: 2/2/2010 to 2/15/2010 Duration: 2 weeks Host: Louise Jent Topic(s): 2   Overview: An exploration of the attitude of gratitude, and its relationship to a meaningful and fulfilling life. Topic 1: Gratitude...The Key to a Meaningful Life? (week 1) According to positive psychology guru Martin Seligman, gratitude is a key component of living a fulfilling and meaningful life. In this conversation, we take a look at gratitude, and its role in our own lives. Please start by telling everyone a little about yourself. First conversation topic: What is gratitude? How would you define it? Is an attitude of gratitude important? Why? Watch this video: A Good Day: Reflections on Gratitude Does this video give you new insight into the nature of gratitude? Second conversation topic: Do you live with an attitude of gratitude? What makes you grateful? Is gratitude a predisposition? A choice? Can we cultivate an attitude of gratitude? If so, how? Third conversation topic: What does gratitude have to do with making a global mind shift? Topic 2: The Gratitude Visit (week 2) Action: The Gratitude Challenge If you're up for it, take this Gratitude Challenge from positive psychology guru Martin Seligman, called The Gratitude Visit. If you take the challenge at our Partner website, FeelGood World, you can earn "cheese points" that you can then invest in making a better world. Check it out. It means registering with the site, but it is totally worth it! You can access the Gratitude Challenge two places. If you take it at our FeelGood website, you can earn valuable Cheese Points that can be invested in empowering the youth and ending global hunger. Basically, it turns your good energy into yet more good energy Learn more about FeelGood and Cheese Points. You can watch the challenge described here on YouTube, and do it on your own. No Cheese Points, but you get the full personal benefit and of course, those gratitude vibes still ripple outward in positive and mysterious ways! Once you've taken the challenge, come back here and let us all know how it went, and what you experienced. Such sharings are a gift to everyone.