Today, I am grateful for:
1. Having a three day weekend
2. Tons of fun stuff to do over the next few days
3. Getting so much done at work this week
4. Meeting some great people this week
5. A good time talking local politics with Anthony last night
then going down to the Comments Section*
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 upport 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.
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