This season can be especially hard.⁣
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But there’s one thing I know to be true no matter what: Finding something to be grateful for always helps.⁣
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What does being grateful entail?⁣
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Grateful is a feeling and belief that there’s always something we can learn from even the most horrendous of situations.⁣
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Personally, I know that to be true. That’s because the very hardest things in my life have come before my greatest growth, joy, and life lessons. ⁣
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Here are some tools as we reflect on this year and look forward to the next.⁣
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When the stinking thinking starts to creep in, pivot quickly to gratitude. It has a way of transforming our experiences, attitude, and self-perspective.⁣
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When I can have compassion and gratitude towards the people that piss me off, I don’t go energetically bankrupt.⁣
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Being in a state of gratitude can also shift your perception of reality.⁣
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When held hand-in-hand with gratitude, moments of disappointment and defeat—the numbing out and shutting down—can be transformed into awareness, self-acceptance, and self-love. ⁣