Top 3 Benefits Gained from my Experiments in Gratitude

“If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack. And if you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have.” — Greg McKeown

I’ve engaged in gratitude thinking several times in my life, usually for a one month experiment each year. Later in the article, I will explain the process.

Top 3 Benefits:

1. Thoughts automatically switched from counterproductive complaints to a consistently solutions-oriented perspective.
2. After two weeks I no longer find reasons to be unhappy. Mondays no longer become a drag, if they are I’d either solve them or think about their unsatisfactoriness.
3. Solving solutions over being unhappy became my default state.

I’m sure you’ve experienced moments in your life where you’ve thought or told someone near you that you’re cold and instead of going and putting a jumper on you simply said that and left it. When you engaged in the two exercises below your mind naturally shifts from verbalising problems to finding reasons to be happy.

What?

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