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Liza Mills
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Identify 3 things that you appreciate about yourself.
Pick things that are meaningful. These can involve your personality, your qualities, your actions, or anything else directly related to yourself.
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Adeeb Schultz
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Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives, whether tangible or intangible.
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You can make yourself happier and nurture your relationship with another person by writing a thank-you letter expressing your enjoyment and appreciation of that person's impact on your life.
Make a habit of sending at least one gratitude letter a month.
No time to write? It may help just to think about someone who has done something nice for you and mentally thank the individual.
Patricia Hammond
@phammond
Psychologists have found that the loss of something is two to four times more painful than the joy of gaining the same thing.
It requires practice and effort and habit. But it’s a skill anyone can learn and anyone can do.
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Yahya Patel
@yahyap
Spend 5 to 10 minutes at the end of each day writing in detail about three things that went well that day, large or small, and also describing why you think they happened.
You don’t know what you’ve got till its gone.
Consider the many ways in which important, positive events in your life—such as a job opportunity or educational achievement—could have never taken place, and then reflecting on what your life would be like without them.
We have a tendency to adapt to pleasurable things—a phenomenon called “hedonic adaptation”—and appreciate them less and less over time.
We can interrupt this process by trying the Give it Up practice, which requires temporarily giving up pleasurable activities and then coming back to them later, this time with greater anticipation and excitement.
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