Make Your Gratitude Jar: New Year, New Blessings!

At the beginning of each year, most people spend some quiet time reflecting on the past year and reflecting on the goals or resolutions they may have for improvement in the new year. Well for 2022, we have something different for you to try that will completely change your mindset.

You’ve probably heard about people keeping gratitude journals; maybe you even keep one yourself. Oprah – Mama O as I affectionately prefer to call her – swears by her practice of keeping a gratitude journal and writing down five things she’s grateful for each day. Journaling has been a powerful and transformative practice for me since I first started back in ’98, but sometimes you have to switch things up.

Introducing The Gratitude Jar.

I was inspired to start my own jar by one of my favorite writers, Elizabeth Gilbert (the same chick that inspired folks to do more eating, praying and loving). She called hers a Happiness Jar. Now sure, the concept in itself is simple enough: get a jar and add notes to it daily of the things you’re grateful for. Any jar and regular paper will do, making this a super inexpensive ritual.

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But, I know me and I know that the only way to be consistent in adding to the jar is to make it FUN. So, what I’m going to share with you is how you can be more intentional about making your gratitude jar and make it something you actually look forward to filling each day.

Use the tips below to start your jar and enjoy your journey down memory lane on December 31, 2022.

1. Get a “Big A– Jar”.

Not to be crass, but yes, that’s exactly what I call it – a big a– jar, or BAJ for short. My homegirl and I went on a quest searching for the perfect BAJs and found this awesome jar at The Container Store. I figured, if my intention is to have a year filled with blessings, I need a jar big enough to hold them all.