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The pursuit of happiness. A right listed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence along with life and liberty. A call to personal well-being and growth. What can help us to pursue happiness? Make gratitude a way of life. Are you grateful? Not just this moment, or on Thanksgiving, or when things are going well, but even on ordinary days or when challenging times come your way? Is gratitude a way of life? Would you like it to be? So far in our series on gratitude, we defined gra

Do you want to be more successful in your personal and professional life? Who doesn’t!? When thinking about factors that could lead to greater success, gratitude probably doesn’t make most people’s top 10 list, but maybe it should. The second post in this series, Did you know gratitude is good for you? lists 30 ways we benefit from experiencing gratitude. We learned that the impact of gratitude is measurable and may be greater than we thought. One area in which gratitude c

Do you feel grateful? Do you say thank you or write notes of appreciation? Are you characterized by an “attitude of gratitude”? In the first post in our gratitude series, What is gratitude? we explored how we can feel, express, and embody gratitude in our lives. Does having grateful feelings, expressing them, and making gratitude a way of life make a difference? Yes. A big difference. Bigger than you might have thought. Gratitude is good for you. Let me count the ways. The b

Gratitude. That’s a word one hears a lot at this time of year, the season of Thanksgiving. We are encouraged to have an attitude of gratitude, to demonstrate, express, or practice gratitude, and to be grateful. So… is gratitude a feeling, or an action, or a character trait? Or possibly all three? Type the question “what is gratitude?" into the Google search bar and it will generate more than 500 billion results. That’s a LOT of answers. Let’s look at some of them… What is gr