Zero Effort Gratitude is a gratitude journaling practice that begins with neutrality (simply observing what's not terrible) and ends with optimism (assuming good things are ahead for you). This is a journaling practice that acknowledges that you're not always in a position to feel grateful. Its purpose is to build gratitude from the ground up. 1.) Neutrality - What Doesn't Suck? Neutrality Journaling is an alternative to gratitude journaling where you journal about what's no

I was writing a blog post on my gratitude journaling system and philosophy called Zero Effort Gratitude. In Zero Effort Gratitude, the idea of it is to make gratitude journaling easier by changing what gratitude journaling asks of you. It is to make the practice more accepting so you can experience more discovery and practice with awareness and do less appraising and qualifying of what's worthy of being in your journal. (More or less). While I was writing all about it in deta