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2019: ten things I am grateful for

As the curtains close on the year, for as long as I can remember, I have written down things I am grateful for or have appreciated in the back of my diary. Over the last four years or so I have started practising gratitude more regularly and have learned more about the positive impact it can have on your life which I wrote about here https://mhfaengland.org/mhfa-centre/ceo-blog/stress-awareness-week-simon-blake/ . Last year I read some gratitude blogs from other people that I was inspired by, so I took a deep breath and made the back of my diary public. Some folk fed back that my blog setting out the things I was grateful for it prompted a them to reflect on their year. Gratitude is a practise I believe we can all benefit from, so here I am again: ten things I am grateful for in 2019 in no particular order. 1.        My job : I have really enjoyed my first full year at MHFA England . It has been a joy getting to know and work with the MHFA England team and build a new strate