Today, I am grateful for:
1. A great run with a friend
2. Finally getting on a good schedule
3. A clean apartment
4. Finishing up my favorite book
5. Getting another good nights sleep!
How Can Five Daily Gratitudes Increase Your Happiness?
As UC Davis psychologist Robert Emmons has demonstrated in his research, "The evidence that cultivating gratefulness is good for you is overwhelming... Specifically, we have shown that gratitude is positively related to such critical outcomes as life satisfaction, vitality, happiness, self-esteem, optimism, hope, empathy, and willingness to provide emotional and tangible support for other people, whereas being ungrateful is related to anxiety, depression, envy, materialism, and loneliness" (learn more here).
How to Start Using Five Daily Gratitudes
Would you like to increases your happiness and improve your relationships, career, and personal development? Then join me in spreading the power of gratitude and optimism to as many people as possible (especially during this anxious economic times) by posting your own Five Daily Gratitudes and sharing the site with others you think would find the site helpful. It only takes a few minutes a day but the positive psychology benefits will last a lifetime.
