Gratitude

I am not always able to be positive about things that happen outside of my home and work routine. There are so many things happening in the world that I often feel overwhelmed when I start to pay attention. Due to this, I tend to isolate from the news and from conversations about big things or events. When I do pay attention, I tend to get bogged down in negativity and struggle with finding positive things around me.

This is something that I try to combat every day.

I find that I do much better mentally when I find something positive to focus on during my early mornings. I have a daily happiness practice where I find something happy about my day or my existence. It is often something really small but it is always an important part of my morning. Finding one positive thing helps me shed the feelings of negativity that comes around.

Now, this is my habit and my gratitude process. I hope that you have one of your own - it doesn't have to be what I do - find your own way to see positive things in the world, even when all you see is negative.

At first, my daily happiness practice was something I did for the month of November, but I found that it was something helpful, so now I do this daily. I am not sure what I will find for today, but there will be something on my social media feed that is a silly, little, positive thought. 

Happy Monday.