8 ways to have more gratitude every day
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Ferris Bueller
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
VolunteerThe key to having
Volunteer
The key to having more gratitude is to give back to others in your local community.
It will make you more grateful for the things that you may take for granted and also increase your own well-being, and thus your ability to have more gratitude.
Spend time with loved
Spend time with loved ones
Spend time with your friends and family. It will help you grow closer to them and strengthen your relationship, but it will also give you a chance to practice your acts of gratitude for people that you care about.
Start small if you’re having trouble finding ways to support your friends and family.
Improve your happiness in
Improve your happiness in other areas of your life
Being grateful can make you happy, but being happy can also make you grateful.
Once you are feeling the endorphins flow, showing gratitude will become even easier and you’ll start to be able to make list after list of all of the things in your life you’re thankful for.
Practice mindfulnessSit down daily
Practice mindfulness
Sit down daily and think through five to ten things you are grateful for. Picture it in your mind and sit with that feeling of gratitude in your body.
Doing this every day will rewire your brain to be naturally more grateful, and you’ll start feeling happier after every session.
It only takes eight weeks of gratitude practice for people to start showing changed brain patterns that lead to greater empathy and happiness.
You can get swept
You can get swept away in the fast lane and forget to stop and show your appreciation for what you do have.
A life well-lived is one of gratitude and thankfulness.
To help you on your gratitude journey, here are 8 ways to have more gratitude in your daily life.
Keep a gratitude journalWrite
Keep a gratitude journal
Write down your positive thoughts to further focus your attention on the subject.
While you are putting the pen to paper, consciously think about the words you are writing without other distracting, ungrateful thoughts.
You can journal every day after your gratitude practice, or you can come back to the journal on a regular schedule weekly or monthly.
Express yourselfIncrease your feelings
Express yourself
Increase your feelings of gratitude by expressing that same gratitude to the people you care about.
Not only does expressing your gratitude for someone make their day a little brighter, but it can do wonders for increasing your own levels of gratitude and happiness in the long run
Don’t be picky: appreciate
Don’t be picky: appreciate everything
Appreciate every good thing in life and recognize that there is nothing too small for you to be thankful for.
Even if it is as simple as appreciating the clear weather or how quickly your mailman delivered your mail, don’t leave anything out when practicing your gratitude.
Find gratitude in your
Find gratitude in your challenges
Gratitude is not only about being thankful for positive experiences.
Sometimes thinking about negative or difficult situations can help to really nail down what you have to be thankful for.
Dig a little deeper into some of your own past experiences and try to figure out how they have helped shape you into the person you are today.