A Simple Habit for a Happier Life

What if you could feel happier in just 10 minutes a day? The practice of gratitude has been proven to reduce stress, improve your mood, and enhance your overall well-being. Starting a gratitude journal is one of the easiest ways to incorporate this life-changing habit into your routine. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to deepen your practice, these 30 gratitude journal prompts will help you create lasting positive changes in just 30 days. Let’s dive in!

The Gentle Gratitude Workbook

I’ve created a special workbook that you can use throughout the month and beyond to further support you – The Gentle Gratitude Workbook is available to buy from my ETSY SHOP. If you’re a premium subscriber, go to my Courses and Downloads page to get your storewide 50% discount.

The Full 30 Day Journaling & Mindset Exercise

1. Daily Journaling – 3 things that you’re grateful for specific to that day
2. Journal using the prompt for that day
3. Create a few positive affirmations that are aligned with your gratitude notes
4. Do an EFT session connected to your day’s journaling

Here are 2 posts to help – Gratitude affirmations and EFT tapping

• Fill your mind with gratitude affirmations that flood your mind with positive thoughts.
• EFT Gratitude Tapping. EFT – Emotional Freedom Techniques is a simple energy technique that you can use yourself. It’s quick and easy to learn and use.

Gratitude and the law of attraction

As a law of attraction practitioner, people often ask me what is one thing they can focus on to get the law of attraction to work better for them. My answer is to focus on gratitude. It’s the easiest thing you can do to raise your vibrations (feel more positive). Read more about THE LAW OF ATTRACTION AND GRATITUDE

Have fun with this 30-day gratitude journaling exercise, and why not share it with your friends and get them to do it with you, too. Enjoy.

Tip: As well as answering the gratitude question each day, also think about why you are grateful. Rather than simply answering the questions, I encourage you to really spend some time thinking about how grateful you are.

30 Days Of Gratitude Journaling

I recommend that you continue to journal long after the 30 days. I’ve created these prompts to give you ideas to get started, but this is a daily practice I encourage for life.

Daily Gratitude Journaling

Each day, add 3 things to your gratitude journal specific to that day. Instead of putting I’m grateful for my family, I would put something specific related to that day, such as, I’m so happy and grateful that I unexpectedly got to spend time with my two sisters and my mum today. It was really nice to meet up at the cafe for a catch up. And I’m so happy that it fit in perfectly in my schedule with last minute planning.

Within that one entry, I stated that I was grateful for the family catch-up and that the timing was perfect.

Why 3 things? I encourage you to add 3 things during this 3o day exercise. Of course, you can add more, but 3 is the minimum. When people haven’t been focusing on gratitude, it can be a struggle to think of things to write about. If you know that each day, you will have to write three things in your journal, your subconscious mind gets to work to bring these things to your conscious mind so that you always have something to write about.

30 Days Of Gratitude Prompts

Each prompt is a question. Please also add your why in your response too.

1. Which family members are you most grateful for?
2. Which friends are you most grateful for?
3. Which teachers/trainers are you most grateful for?
4. Which work colleagues are you most grateful for (if you’re a business owner, this could be someone you employ or work with in some way)
5. What items inside your home are you most grateful for?
6. What items outside of your home are you most grateful for?
7. Which place in the county you live are you most grateful for?
8. Which place outside of the country you live are you most grateful for?
9. Which flowers are you most grateful for?
10. Which animals are you most grateful for?
11. Are you most grateful for a city or a beach location?
12. Are you more grateful for summer days or winter days?
13. What are you most grateful for in the spring?
14. What are you most grateful for in the summer?
15. What are you most grateful for in the autumn?
16. What are you most grateful for in the winter?
17. What past event are you most grateful for?
18. Which service provider are you most grateful for?
19. Which business are you most grateful for?
20. What song/piece of music are you most grateful for?
21. What TV show/Film are you most grateful for?
22. What book or poem are you most grateful for?
23. Name someone that you’re grateful for that is not a close friend or family member.
24. Which holiday are you most grateful for?
25. What are you most grateful for TODAY?
26. Which local attraction are you most grateful for?
27. Which neighbours are you most grateful for?
28. Which meal are you most grateful for?
29. Which restaurant, cafe, or bar are you most grateful for?
30. What are you most grateful for?

The Gentle Gratitude Workbook

I’ve created a special workbook that you can use throughout the month and beyond to further support you – The Gentle Gratitude Workbook is available to buy from my ETSY SHOP. If you’re a premium subscriber, go to my Courses and Downloads page to get your storewide 50% discount.

Create daily affirmations

Each day, as you answer your gratitude question, try creating an affirmation to go with your answer to further help you focus on gratitude.

For example, Question 14: What are you most grateful for in summer? My own answer is… I’m most grateful for sunshine warming my body, relaxing on the sun lounger with a good book and a cold drink, feeling super relaxed.

My affirmation would be… I am so grateful for summer days with the sunshine warming my body. I’m so grateful to lounge in the sun with a good book and cold drinks.

Take the time to really get that feeling of this experience, all the time knowing you are raising your vibrations.

EFT Tapping with your 30 Days of Gratitude

Each day, you could do a few rounds of EFT tapping, focusing on what you’re grateful for. If you’re new to EFT tapping (Emotional Freedom Techniques), check out my Free EFT Tapping Guide

Here’s an example.

Question 1: Which family member are you most grateful for? You could then go on to name every family member that you’re grateful for and say a different name at each of the tapping points. In the example, I’ve listed relationships rather than names, but you would add the person’s name.

• Top of the head: I’m so happy and grateful for my son
• Forehead: I’m so happy and grateful for my mum
• Eyebrow: I’m so happy and grateful for my dad
• Side of the eye: I’m so happy and grateful for my sisters
• Under the eye: I’m so happy and grateful for my brother-in-laws
• Under the nose: I’m so happy and grateful for my nieces
• Under the mouth: I’m so happy and grateful for my nephews
• Collarbone: I’m so happy and grateful for my aunties and uncles
• Side of the hand: I’m so happy and grateful for my cousins

This is one full EFT round; you can repeat as many times as you want. You can also go on to talk about why you’re grateful for each person.

You could also focus on how your family help you to feel. When I focus on family, I will often tap on “I am loved”

Remember that as you focus more and more on gratitude, you raise your vibrations and become more of a match for more things to be grateful for.

Final notes about the gratitude exercise

With this exercise, I want to help you create a daily habit that supports you to feel grateful. I truly believe that the more grateful you are, the easier it is to manifest even more to feel grateful for. Adding the positive affirmations and the EFT session is a bonus, but one I hope you’ll experiment with.

Affirmations fill your mind with positive messages that support you and shape your beliefs. EFT tapping helps to release energy blocks and raise your vibrations. They’re powerful.

Please let me know if you need ideas for affirmations and EFT Scripts.

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I hope you enjoy these 30 days of gratitude. One final thing to tell you today. I’m very grateful to you for reading my blog. I hope you’ll share with your friends and family to spread even more gratitude.