Gratitude comes with the realization of what’s good in life. Once you start realizing the little and big things that make you happy, you’re on a path of leading a fuller life enriched with gratitude.

Here we bring you the 4^th fun activity of the series:

Reflection Stones

Gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. This exercise will help your fellow workers reflect about the things to be grateful for, in turn letting them feel deeper happiness and satisfaction.

This activity can be organized for 3 to 7 days. Following are the simple steps to carry out this activity:

• Make an announcement about the activity, followed by an interesting email for more details.
• Get a set of volunteers, who will move around with a box of attractive stones.
• Each person in the team / organization needs to pick a stone they really like.
• Ask them to look at this stone and think of a good memory. This is the happiness stone.
• Ask them to keep this stone with them in their pocket / purse for the duration of activity (3 to 7 days).
• This is where this activity gets interesting. Whenever their hand touches the stone inside the pocket / purse, they need to think about one thing they are grateful for. If possible, express the gratitude. For example, if you think of a person, then call them/meet them and let them know that you are grateful for them.
• On the last day of the activity, they need to submit a one page note about their experience with happiness stone.
• Reward the best happiness note on Thanksgiving evening.
• Things required for the activity:
  • Coloured stones of appropriate size, neither too small nor too large.
• Bonus Idea:
  • On Thanksgiving evening, ask few people to come forward and share their experiences.

After experiencing the joy of gratitude with Reflection Stones at your workplace do share pictures with us at connect@monkatwork.in

Do visit us on Monday as we add the fifth and final ActOfGratitude. Happy Thanksgiving!

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