Do you have a daily Gratitude practice? We certainly do! Once you incorporate Gratitude, this will change your attitude to life’s ups and downs.
You should try it – because being grateful has so many benefits and really helps shift your mindset. It is an important aspect of manifesting great things into your life! Have a listen to our latest Wellbeing Panel.
Benefits
- As Brené Brown elegantly states, “practicing gratitude invites joy into our lives”
- Better sleep
- More patience
- Better decision making
- Improved physical health
- More optimistic
How to choose Happiness by rewiring your brain
Shawn Anchor has demonstrated that scientifically, happiness is a choice. We can make this choice by with a simple practice he calls the Three Gratitudes.
- Pause at the same time every day – first or last thing
- Identify three new things each day that you are grateful for. They can be little things like I jumped out of bed this morning, or that guy returned my smile this morning.
- Do this every day for twenty one days
This will help you to re-pattern your brain to take more and more notice of positive thoughts rather than negative ones.
I have tried this practice and it is powerful. It has reset my position on the optimism clock. I now tend to look at the positive outcome in any situation I experience.
When you become happier you can reap these benefits [1]
- 31% higher productivity
- 37% higher sales
- 3x greater creativity
- 23% fewer fatigue symptoms
- up to 10x more engaged
- 40% more likely to receive a promotion
- 39% more likely to live to age 94
Top three tips to building a happier life
- Become CONSCIOUS of your thoughts and your stressors
- CEASE the negative thoughts and identify solutions
- CHOOSE to redirect your mind to an achievable positive thought AND implement a daily gratitude practice until it becomes a habit
If you would like to take the next step with Harry Armytage, complete the listening scorecard here
As it happens – there’s a gratitude exercise in Sally’s Mindset Journal
Further reading on Gratitude and Positive Psychology
- Penn State University Authentic Happiness resources
- Brené Brown – Joy and Gratitude
- Joe Dispenza – The Power of Gratitude
- Brendon Burchard – 6 Uncommon Strategies For Developing Greater Gratitude
- Martin Seligman – A Simple Exercise to Increase Well-Being and Lower Depression
- [1] Shawn Anchor’s popular TED Talk: The happy secret to better work.
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