Heart Advice

100 Reasons to be Grateful Today

''“Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.”

~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

I began my gratitude practice at a time when I desperately needed help seeing the good in my life.

Several failed relationships and a broken heart had left me blind to the incredible gifts the Universe had given me, and I was rutted in depression for three years. I couldn’t seem to focus on anything besides what I had lost. Happiness seemed like a cosmic joke.

The more I focused on what I wasn’t grateful for, like the love I had lost, the less I focused on doing the things I loved.

Depression is common, and it happens to many of us at some point. But the longer I chose to wallow in it, the more impossible happiness seemed. After my third year of depression I seriously considered whether life was even worth living.

Then I came across Zig Ziglar’s empowering audiobook A View From the Top...''

by Daniel Dowling