30 Days of Gratitude Calendar

November is traditionally a month of gratitude. It’s when we get together to celebrate what we have and try to make room to be grateful for the good things in our lives, big and small.

Gratitude calendars are a great way to help you tune in with the best parts of your life, and the things you’re most grateful to have. There aren’t many better ways to celebrate the harvest season, so let’s dive in.

One quick note before we get started on our gratitude calendar: Forcing yourself, or anyone else, to be grateful isn’t the goal here. If you, your family, or especially your kids are struggling to be grateful this month, that’s okay. Try to be mindful of opportunities to be grateful, but don’t stress yourself out trying to force it.

After all, gratitude feels best when it’s genuine and heartfelt.

Our 30 Days of Gratitude:

To split a month into 30 days of gratitude might seem difficult, but these prompts will help you tune in to what’s going great in your life and might make it a little easier.

We’ve decided to split the 30 days groups of 6. That’s a little less than a week, but since November doesn’t line up with 4 weeks exactly anyway, this worked a little better. That’s 5 groups of things to be grateful for in your life. Here are the groups:

1. Things At Home
2. Friends and Family
3. Self-Gratitude
4. Nature Gratitude
5. General Gratitude

We tried to identify 5 groups of things that need a little love from time to time. This way you can direct your gratitude toward things that matter in addition to helping yourself feel better this month. Without further ado, here are your 30 days of Gratitude!

Our suggestion is to take a few minutes to think about these things and focus on how they make you feel, and how lucky you are to have them.

Gratitude For Things At Home

● Day 1: Comfort Items
Things like blankets, your bed, a favorite chair, or even stuffed animals.

● Day 2: Modern Conveniences
Modern electricity, the appliances in your home, running water, your car, or transportation. Everything that makes life a little easier.

● Day 3: Shelter
Take a moment to be grateful for the home you have.

● Day 4: Food and Drink
Your home lets you keep a lot more food at your fingertips than most people have ever been able to. Give gratitude for this plenty.

● Day 5: Privacy
Being home gives you a place to relax and be yourself. Reflect on how that opportunity helps in your life.

● Day 6: Entertainment
TV, music, and the internet can all make it easier to stay entertained at home. Practice gratitude for this escape from boredom.

Friends And Family Gratitude

● Day 7: Your Most Important Person
Think about your most important person. Consider writing a letter or sending a text to tell them how much they mean to you.

● Day 8: Parents
Gratitude for your parents, or the people who filled that role, is important. Recognize that they aren’t perfect and can’t be, and consider sending a thank you.

● Day 9: Close Friends
Sometimes you need someone other than your immediate family to support you. Think about what your friends do for you on this important day.

● Day 10: Your Support Network
Think about the people you can always turn to. Consider writing a letter or telling them how much their
support means to you, and how it helps you.

● Day 11: Mentors, Teachers, and People Who Help You Grow
All of us have people who help push us to be better than we are. Consider these people’s actions and how they’ve supported you over the years.

● Day 12: Ancestors
All of us are the product of centuries of people working hard to make life easier and help their families. Even if we aren’t connected to those people directly, now can be a time to think about them and be grateful for the work that made your life possible.

Self-Gratitude

● Day 13: Your Favorite Trait
Being grateful for yourself is often neglected, take these 6 days to pay attention to what’s good about you. Starting with a favorite trait of yours, think about how your favorite trait has helped you in life.

● Day 14: Your Resilience
Even if you’ve lived a charmed life, there have been times that your own strength and resilience have helped you. Take some time to thank yourself for having that strength.

● Day 15: Your Patience
Thank yourself for having the patience to reach your goals, and for taking time to give yourself gratitude.

● Day 16: Your Skills
Building skills is hard. Think about which skills have helped you most in life.

● Day 17: Your Self-Care
Take a moment to thank yourself for being responsible and taking care of yourself through life.

● Day 18: Your Favorite Thing About Yourself
Everyone has a favorite thing, consider your favorite thing about yourself and take a moment to be grateful for that thing.

Nature Gratitude

● Day 19: Air
Take a moment to be grateful for the air you breathe and the things that keep that air healthy and pure.

● Day 20: Water
Water is one of the most basic things we need to survive. Consider how water has helped you, and how easy access makes your life easier.

● Day 21: Your Favorite Plant
Think about what plant is your favorite and give thanks for its existence.

● Day 22: Pets, or your favorite animal.
Think about an animal that means a lot to you, why it means so much to you, and be grateful it exists.

● Day 23: Weather
Weather doesn’t always work in our favor, but when it does it’s incredible. Consider your favorite weather today.

● Day 24: Your Favorite Place
Think about your favorite place, whether that’s somewhere outside or inside, and thank it for existing.

General Thankfulness

● Day 25: Sleep
Think about how you slept last night and for several nights. Thank your body for sleep, your mind for dreams.

● Day 26: Do something you Love.
Take some time to do something you enjoy, just because you enjoy it.

● Day 27: Take A Photo
Take a photo of something you want to remember, and save it somewhere safe.

● Day 28: Write Down A Favorite Memory
Focus on what you love about this memory rather than accuracy.

● Day 29: Things Taken For Granted
Think for a time about what you might be taking for granted, try to pay attention to those things.

● Day 30: Whatever Inspires You
Take a moment to think about whatever it is that inspires gratitude in you. Today’s your free day, be grateful, or not, as you choose.