Gratitude
Worksheet

REFLECTION & JOURNALING TOOLS

Anchor attention to what's working,
in six specific prompts.

What This Worksheet Does

Gratitude practices tend to be more useful when they are specific rather than categorical. "I am grateful for my health" produces little. "I am grateful for the conversation that shifted my perspective on Tuesday" produces more. The six prompts in this worksheet are designed to pull concrete entries rather than general ones - people, moments, memories, and the small things in a day that are easy to pass over.

For leaders, this kind of structured reflection can serve as a counterweight to the natural cognitive bias toward problems, risks, and what is not yet resolved. It does not require large amounts of time or a particular mindset going in. It requires only that you complete the six prompts with enough specificity that each entry is distinct from what you would write on any other day.

How to Use This Worksheet

Complete it at the same time each day if you're using it as a regular practice. End of day is most common - but the right time is the one you'll actually use.
Write one specific entry per prompt. Not a list. One thing. The constraint produces more precise reflection than an open-ended field would.
Resist abstract entries. "My team" is not an answer to "People I am grateful for." "The way Marcus caught the error before it reached the client" is.
Don't skip prompts that feel hard to fill. If you can't think of something for "Things that made me smile," sit with it for a moment. That difficulty is information.
Review past entries occasionally. Patterns that emerge over time - recurring people, recurring types of moments - are often more revealing than any single day's entries.