Gratitude
May 4: Share your progress!
- Post a social media update for your friends and family on your progress with the Positivity Pledge!
- Share with your family and friends what you are grateful for to kick off gratitude week.
- Make sure to tag Erika’s Lighthouse!
May 5: Identify your trusted friends, family, adults
- Write down 3 trusted family members, friends or adults you could go to if you were feeling down and needed help. Thank them!
- Tag them on social media to boost their spirits and know you care.
May 6: Make a list of who/what you are grateful for
- Create a vision board of all the things you are looking forward to in the coming months.
Get started here. - Start a Gratitude Jar or Gratitude Journal and see if you can do it for the entire month!
Read more here.
May 7: Show your gratitude
- Offer to help a friend, family member, or an elderly neighbor.
- Complete a Positivity BINGO this month!
May 8: Make a list of traits you love about yourself
- Think about what you love about yourself and write them down. They can be about your personality, appearance, morals and ethics, beliefs or anything! Nothing is too small to appreciate.
May 9: Make a connection
- Set up a video chat with family or friends while eating, playing a game, or watching a show and feel like you are together.
- Reach out to an extrovert that may be struggling right now.
May 10: Make a list of the traits you love about someone else
- Think about what you love about someone else and write it down! It can be about their personality, appearance, morals and ethics, beliefs or anything! Nothing is too small to appreciate. Consider sharing it with them.
