Guest Post from Tiny Prints Founder and CEO, Ed Han

Since today is World Gratitude Day, I want to thank all our bloggers from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to participate in The Gratitude Challenge.

Not only did you complete every step of The Challenge with style and grace, but your stories of heroism, hope and harmony have inspired countless readers to do the same.

We started this project as a internal movement focused on helping our colleagues to achieve one simple goal—to counter everyday stress and negativity with daily affirmations of gratitude. As The Gratitude Challenge grew to include bloggers outside of our company, however, we learned just how much gratitude can change a person’s life.

From tornadoes to car accidents, fires and family drama, The Gratitude Challenge saw our bloggers through meaningful, life-changing events. We learned so much from this experience that we made a short video about how gratitude can revitalize your perspective. You can watch it below:

We hope this experience has meant as much to you as it has to us, and we hope that you and your readers will to continue to follow our progress as we invite the world to join the movement at gratitudechallenge.com.

Best wishes,

Ed Han

Tiny Prints Founder & CEO

After several months of planning the gratitude challenge and 21 days living it, I wonder – do I feel different? Well, the truth is no. I don’t feel different. I still get stressed about but the not ideal situations in life and I still let my mind run 100 miles an hour as I keep track of my ever growing to-do list.

However, despite those “negative” things that remain in my life, I feel like I’ve gained a little perspective. Now, when I start to become a negative Nancy, I don’t always let myself go all the way there. After all, I am pretty sure that most of the time I just complain to complain.  Things really aren’t that bad.

In fact, when I flip through my gratitude journal and see the pages filled with  all the little blessings in my life that I took note of and gave thanks for over the past month, I’m quite pleased and I realize that these little blessings aren’t so little after all. Every blessing is substantial and recognizing these blessings really does make life a little brighter.

Today I have been challenged to create a a video entry that focuses on the things around me that I am most grateful for.  As soon as I read this task, I immediately thought of my family.  Even though most of my family is thousands of miles away in New York, I am still as close to them as ever.  I talk to my parents every day and I spend most of my vacations at home.

So, today, I share with you the people in my life that I am most grateful for, my family…