Next Thursday, March 19th at 3-3:45pm CST, we will host our first Grow with Gratitude community hang out. It will be HERE, on the Skool platform. Think Zoom chat brady bunch style. We will hang out, get to know each other, talk about how our 30-day challenges are going, what we're learning, and then I'll teach a little towards the end. Mostly, I want to get to know everyone better, and give you a chance to get to know each other better. Mark it in your calendars. Hope to see you then :)

I thought this challenge would be similar to my postcards and that it would be for a lack of words a walk in the park to do my one a day. That is proving to be harder than expected. I liked my postcards and there is lots of thought that go into them and still don’t think I will change them however this is a good stretch that I didn’t anticipate.

John what do you think about a personlized photo on the cover of a SENDOUTCARD?

Today I wrote to my neighbor. Our kids were having a lemonade stand on our country road on a Saturday...only four customers bought over 3 hours. My wife and I were 2 of them. One of them was a neighbor who is very sweet that we haven't had time with. She asked how much the kids were raising ($200 for a new boat motor). She appreciated they were out on a hot day, and offered them $200 to build her a chicken coop. They brought over the supplies, and while at our house, the husband shared about the cities plans to build near our property. They had private access (due to one of their jobs) and showed exactly the dividing lines where the city was building up to. This was invaluable info for us to plan the expansion of our little farm. Then they invited the kids over to fish on their pond. I know these are very random details, but they were huge deposits into our families bucket. Living in the country we've made some connections, but many drifted off since we don't cross paths often. It just reminds me that relationships that stay in existence are based in continual support. Asking for favors, offering help, inviting people over. They are initiated, activated, and fortified through continuous effort. A great reminder of something I can get better at. So...that's who I got my card out to today.

Today was a beautiful day. I was lucky enough to have lunch with my best friend who doesn’t live very close to me. She has been struggling with some medical complications and has been really down. I was telling her about the gratitude challenge and my experience so far. She told me that she got my latest card (before the challenge) and started to cry. She said that my card came at the exact moment she needed to hear the words and it helped her. She has it on her treadmill so that she can reread them when she is fighting through pain and feeling defeated. I hate that she is struggling but so grateful that I can help to remind her how strong she is and how much I love and appreciate her. Once I made it home the cards were easy to write. I am trusting that whenever my cards go they are reaching the exact right person at the exact right time.