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For many people around the world, we have entered the season with holidays that are about reflection and gratitude. Yet, it’s easy to feel too busy to take the time to actively practice [...]

Feeling stressed? Discouraged? Stuck? Gratitude is such a strong antidote to many negative emotions but only when we actually feel grateful. Sure, we can think about a list of things that are [...]

The holidays and the upcoming New Year make this a great time to reflect and be thankful for all we have. The spirit of Thanksgiving is a perfect example. Yet, it can be easy to get caught up in [...]

How often do you pause to be grateful?  I know how good it makes me feel and I’ve read about the many benefits, so I want to find more times to experience gratitude. So as I sit here, working in [...]

Out of all the information that surrounds us coming in from all of our five senses, we actually only notice an extremely small percentage. According to Shawn Achor in his book, Before [...]

I often quote the benefits of spending more time in positive emotions based on a variety of studies, but there’s nothing like a personal example to help make it real so I wanted to share my [...]

We just finished watching season 2 of “Alone” on The History Channel.  I have to say, it was a little different than what I expected.  The show starts with 10 people being dropped off, each in [...]

I agree.  These sound like very strange things to be grateful for, but let me explain.  The reason I listed “singing in the shower,” is because my 10-year-old daughter loves to belt out a song [...]

We hear a lot about the value of taking time for gratitude, especially around Thanksgiving time.  Research shows it can help us sleep better, be more optimistic, more easily forgive others, [...]

Don’t you just hate waiting?  I get so impatient.  It seems like such a waste of time when I have so many things I need to do.  My biggest pet peeves are waiting on hold on the phone to get a [...]