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Coaches Journal
Gratitude: More Than Just a Cringey Trend.
Is Gratitude just one of those hip new terms that gets thrown around like confetti? Sometimes giving implications that we are ungrateful creatures blindly going about our day, which on some level could be true. We rush from place to place, scoffing our food, throwing reusable items away because they don’t “spark joy” just to replace them with another. The urgency we live with puts so much pressure on us that we literally feel the squeeze in terms of mental health problems and physical symptoms in the form of headaches and muscle tension.
Why We Can’t Skip the Hard Part.
We love comfort. We cling to the familiar, relishing the ease of routines and the warmth of what we know. The unknown, the challenging, the uncomfortable—it all makes us squirm. We avoid the itchy, scratchy parts of life, preferring instead to stay wrapped in the softness of certainty.
An Itchy Soul: The Call You Can’t Ignore.
Have you ever felt a deep, unshakable pull toward something—an interest, a dream, a way of life—that you couldn’t quite explain? Maybe even since childhood, you’ve sensed that you were meant for something more, something different. Yet, somewhere along the way, life’s expectations, societal norms, and the well-worn paths laid before you dictated a direction that wasn’t entirely your own.
No One Really Knows What They're Doing - And That's the Truth
I used to believe that adults had it all figured out.
They made educated and calculated decisions based on an encyclopedic knowledge of how the world works. There was one correct way to do things, and if you weren’t serious and "adulty" about it, you were doing it wrong. If you didn’t know what you were doing, people would look down their noses at you in judgment.