How Grateful Are You?

How to Appreciate What You Have

(HappierDaily.com) – What are you thankful for? Are you perfectly content in your lifestyle or do you want more? We all have dreams about where we want to go and who we want to become — but basing your happiness around what you haven’t yet achieved can be exhausting and leave you with a lack of fulfillment at the end of the day.

Learning to appreciate the good in your life rather than focusing on what could be better can help you keep a more positive outlook and increase your day to day joy.

Quotes That Will Make You Feel More Grateful

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

~ Epicurus

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“The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It’s that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn’t have to be.”

~ Louise Hay

“I will forever remain humble because I know I could have less. I will always be grateful because I know I’ve had less.”

~ Unknown

If you’re still struggling to feel grateful, try this simple exercise:

Give it Up

Consider giving up something that you enjoy for a few days. It could be your morning coffee, your reading time with a good book, or even social media. Consider the little things that you don’t usually think about and put them on “hold” for a little while.

It may seem silly at first, but pretty soon you’ll probably start missing the thing you gave up. If you miss it, you’re likely to appreciate it all the more when you go back to it. This is a great exercise to get you thinking about the positives you have in your life.

Sometimes the greatest joys can come from the places we rarely remember to look. You can make the most out of every day by living in the present and loving what’s in front of you.

What do you appreciate that you’d rather not live without?

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