Gratitude can sometimes feel like tiny specks of glitter, but when you gather them into a pile, you have a mountain of things to be grateful for. Not sure what I'm talking about? Tune into this episode to learn more! 

 

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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in about 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and what we know is that gratitude reminds us how satisfied we are with our lives.  I think sometimes we can forget the good things.  If we can tap into gratitude, whether it’s a crappy day, a crappy week, a crappy year, if we can find something to truly feel gratitude for, it will, scientifically, help us feel a better sense of well-being.  

 

That seems really hard when you don’t ‘feel’ like you have anything you want to be grateful for.  Now, I’m not a doctor, if you are feeling so blue and you can’t see a way out, please seek out a mental health professional, you deserve to get the help you need.   

 

I’m not saying that everyday is filled with butterflies, rainbows and glitter.  What I am trying to say is that, hopefully, we can find those specks of glitter to be grateful for.  Hold on to them.  And gather more, little by little if that’s what it takes.  Until you can see the specks of glitter turn into a little pile in your hand.  I’m imagining literally collecting specks of gratitude glitter.  Soon, when those specks are piled together, it looks like a bigger sparkle of gratitude.  And, over time, we see the gratitude grow, we have more sparkle, and we can start to retrain our brains to see the gratitude sparkles even through the crappy stuff we have going on too.  

 

So I’m curious, what do you think of this concept of gratitude glitter?  Let’s have a chat over on Instagram.  I’m at @everydayhappinesswithkatie. 

 

And remember, kindness is contagious.

 

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