Hailey Bartholomew from You Can't Be Serious started this project in 2008 - 365 Grateful. Visit the website to see what it was all about. Now, both Hailey and her Mum are making this documentary to inspire people, workplaces, schools etc to do appropriate gratitude projects themselves. They say, in doing so they will discover this profoundly powerful tool and pass it on. Then we get to see what we imagine!
I just love this project and am inspired by Hailey all the time. There are many ways you can get involved and bring so much joy to your life or someone else's.
Here is the synopsis:
365 Grateful – The Documentary is the exploration on the power of gratitude made
by mother and daughter filmmakers Toni Powell and Hailey Bartholomew.
In early 2008, in an effort to fight depression, Hailey started a photographic project called
365 Grateful where she took one Polaroid a day of something she felt grateful for. The
discipline of having to look for the good things every day changed her life in multiple ways
and wondrously impacted the lives of many others. Hailey put her project up on Flickr and hundreds of people began to do their own
365 grateful projects. As word spread and the project went viral. Individuals, schools,
magazines and radio stations took on the project and it just keeps growing. Many of those
touched by doing The 365 Grateful Project themselves have written to Hailey about their
changed lives. In 365 Grateful - The Documentary Hailey’s story will be told, as will stories of people who
have done the 365 Grateful Project – including an Australian woman whose baby died, a
New York artist and a whole Girl Guide troop. As well there are planned interviews with
amazing people living lives of gratitude in unusual or challenging circumstances.
Additionally there will be interviews with comedians, authors, musicians and leaders in
various fields to examine the power of gratitude on various areas of life, from marriage
through to the brain. This will be an entertaining and personal film. People will also be able to watch and follow
along the journey via the blog as Toni and Hailey approach, with humour, the ups and
downs of making a film as a mother/daughter team. There will be an international outlook
and interviews with prominent people from rock stars to spiritual leaders – or, at the very least, the documenting of trying to get those interviews! In the end we will all know more about the power of gratitude! Be inspired by personal
stories and inspirational people! All the while enjoying the journey!
