What am I grateful for?
Self-questioning can easily drift
toward a focus on what’s missing in one’s life: Why don’t I have more money, a better job, a bigger house? Meanwhile,
we tend to take for granted what we actually have going for us!
But happiness experts say that if
you want to find a quick and easy way to bring more positive energy into your
life, start by asking yourself the question above—and keep asking it, every
day.
“Gratitude is a shortcut to
happiness,” says the filmmaker Roko Belic, whose 2011 documentary Happy was
a study in what makes some people happier than others.
The same conclusion was reached by
Tal Ben-Shahar, a professor at Harvard University and author of Happier and
Being Happy.
He believes it’s important to “cultivate the habit of gratitude” by asking, at
the end of each day, What am I
grateful for? And
writing the answers in a “gratitude journal.” He maintains that people who do
this tend to be not only happier but also more successful and more likely to
achieve their goals.
- Warren Berger
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