The more you spend time finding all the bad bits of everything, or just plain hating stuff, the more you allow your brain to marinate in negativity – and the more you are training it to be miserable and unhappy all the time – and that’s bad news for everyone, especially yourself.
Spur of the moment, my son asked if we could go camping! We have a 4-year-old, a 2-year-old, and a 1-year-old, and we thought to ourselves… why not?? Would it be an adventure or an ordeal? It all depends on me.
Gratitude is not an attitude, it’s a skill. As a skill, it can be practiced just like you’d practice anything else…the more you practice, the better and more natural the act of being grateful will become.