An Ode to a Grateful Life

It doesn’t matter whether your cup is half empty or half full, gratitude will always take you much further.

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Yes, I know it. You’ve already had more than your fair share of those seemingly unending tips and hacks for keeping your head above the waters in these turbulent times.

Right from our mothers’ wombs to our infant days and all through our early teens, we were all dependent on our parents and other loved loved ones for our existence.

Today, many young adults are still tied to their parents umbilical chords. Severing these chords of dependency early in life are vital towards healthy growth and self reliance.

How do you pull this off?

1. Get out of the mire of learned self helplessness.

People who have experienced stressful conditions repeatedly may begin to believe that they are unable to change their situations. Hamstrung by this mindset, they do not even try to help themselves when opportunities for change become available to them. This is called Learned Helplessness.

According to the American psychologist, Dr Barry Schwartz, learned helplessness make people to have the feeling that…