Thirty Darts

Author: Suman Mandal

Challenges / Gratitude Challenge

Day 14 – Gratitude Challenge – Music you love

Welcome to Day 14 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today, you will focus on the music you love. Imagine a world without music. Is that right? There is all kinds of music around us, instrumental or vocal. Music teaches us that it is important to have rhythm in our lives—the right notes that create a melodic flow. We will express our gratitude to all the musical instruments and also to the people who play them and sing along. You can see the entire list of the 30-Day Gratitude Challenge in the below link: 30-Day Gratitude Challenge A song or voice always...

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Day 13 – Gratitude Challenge – A decision that changed your life

Welcome to Day 13 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will focus on the decisions we make and how decisions change our lives. We will express gratitude for being able to make decisions and taking responsibility for them. The consequences may be good or bad, but they surely change our lives. That is a risk we should be willing to take if we want to change our lives. You can see the entire list of the 30-Day Gratitude Challenge in the below link: 30-Day Gratitude Challenge Making decisions is not an easy task. It’s tumultuous and gives us anxiety to...

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Day 12 – Gratitude Challenge – Say Thank you and Write a love letter to yourself

Welcome to Day 12 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will focus on ourselves, say thank you, and write a letter to ourselves. If you want to keep taking care of others, you must focus on yourself first. While you express gratitude to others, why not express gratitude to yourself too? Never shy away from showing yourself the love you deserve. People often find it unimportant to sit and appreciate how far they have come and never have time to take themselves out to a beautiful place and relax for a bit while watching the sunset. We often take everything...

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Day 11 – Gratitude Challenge – Friends who are always there for you

Welcome to Day 11 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will express gratitude for the friends who are there for you in good and bad times. In this world where each day is a surprise and in the middle of all the chaos, it is a blessing if you have friends in your life who are there to support you without being jealous and mean. Always appreciate their presence and never take them for granted. Through this challenge, let us take a day and appreciate the beautiful bond of friendships that has kept us sane and happy when we least...

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30-Day Healthy Eating Challenge – Step towards Self-Care

Today we will uncover a new 30-Day Challenge which is the 30-Day Healthy Eating Challenge. Through this challenge, we will participate with the determination to include healthy eating in our daily lives. We are so busy with our work, thoughts, and problems that we often forget that our health suffers too. Stress triggers us to binge on a pack of chips or go for a bucket of ice cream or a chocolate bar. In this process, we do not notice that to come out of one problem, we have not cared about our health and put it at risk. By...

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Day 10 – Gratitude Challenge – People who inspire

Welcome to Day 10 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will be expressing gratitude for all the people who inspire us daily and keep us going forward. Life is full of ups, downs, and plateaus. We do not feel good all the time and we also do not feel bad all the time. But when we feel low, just spending time with friends and talking to them lifts our mood. People who inspire you to keep going can be anyone. For me, I get inspired by people who can do the routine work and find peace in that and I...

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Day 9 – Gratitude Challenge – 5 Things you love about yourself

Welcome to Day 9 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will discuss self-love and think about the 5 things you love about yourself. We will express gratitude to ourselves today for being able to see the good in ourselves. Nowadays we are becoming very occupied and distracted with everything around us and also affected by others. That is why it is essential to remind ourselves that life is good and no one is perfect so embrace yourself with the black and white you see in yourself. Instead of thinking about what others think about us, we need to focus on...

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Day 8 – Gratitude Challenge – 10 Things in Nature

Welcome to Day 8 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will express our gratitude for Nature. As there is no end to the number of things we can express gratitude for, I have made it 10 Things in Nature. Close your eyes and think for a few minutes about Nature. What appears in your mind? Do you see trees, rainbows, the waterfalls you visited last month, or the trek you did? Nature is so vast, nurturing, and giving, that the list of the things shall never end. Here I will try listing out 10 things that you can be grateful...

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Day 7 – Gratitude Challenge – Gifts you loved till now

Welcome to Day 7 of the Gratitude Challenge. Gifts are surprises that keep us happy and connected with the people we love. Today we will practice to feel gratitude for all the gifts we have received till now. Gifts can be anything. It can be something materialistic or can be someone’s precious time, someone’s legacy, or a gift from the Almighty. We all feel good when we receive gifts, but others can expect and receive something else. Let us accept that whatever the gift it is that we receive we shall take it with a Thank you and never compare...

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Day 6 – Gratitude Challenge – Reflect on your relationship with your parents

Welcome to Day 6 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will talk about reflecting on our relationship with our parents. There will always be differences of opinion between our parents and us and we might think they do not understand us. But all they are trying to do is be better parents and they deal with us based on their experiences. Today we will feel gratitude for our parents. They are our blessings in our life even with the lessons they give. We should feel gratitude for their presence because many wish to have their parents who would call them...