Grateful Every Day

Scrum for Your Life provides an opportunity for you to be grateful every day. It can, and should be part of your Daily Scrum. Every morning you are celebrating the accomplishments of the day before, and that is certainly something to be grateful for. In addition to the work you’ve accomplished, contemplate the amount of love, beauty and riches that came into your life during the last 24 hours. Even when you have something negative going on, for most of us there is still a storm of good that falls on us every day.

Then at the end of four weeks, during your Sprint Review, you have a cornucopia of accomplishments, love and abundance that you can reflect on. Love and relationships ranks high on my values list, so one of the things I celebrate is the interactions I’ve had with people over the past four weeks. It could be sharing a glass of wine, having dinner together, or even going for a hike. These are precious things to me that I record in writing in my journal and doing so makes me feel the enormous wealth I experience every Sprint in the form of love and relationships. The same is true of accomplishments at work, recognition of health and the income you receive.

If you’ve ever doubted how much wealth you have in your life in all these different forms, just take an accounting each day and notice how grateful you feel. When you see it all together in your Sprint Review, you may be overwhelmed. That’s the idea.