Glenn Blair calls it the “Thank You Project.”
Sit down, write a thank you note, drop it in the mail, and make someone’s day.
Then do it again, every day, for the next 364 days. That’s a year of thanks, spreading unexpected joy and leaving the sender with zero regret over unspoken words of gratitude.
Blair, of Westlake, is a retired oil executive and Baldwin Wallace professor. The experiment he embarked on more than two decades ago deserves a revisit during this unsettled time, Blair explains.
Gratitude put to paper causes a ripple of kindness. Blair has thanked people from his past and from today. Some were celebrities, others have been ordinary people doing extraordinary things, people from news stories, his fourth-grade teacher and dozens of others whose actions — big and small — have deserved a note.
The thank-yous have had a boomerang effect — Blair got a jolt of happiness with each one he mailed. Why not try it for yourself? One note. Every day. For 365 days.
Thanks, Glenn.
