Posts Tagged ‘gratitude’

How to Be Happier with What You Have

“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.” - Benjamin Franklin

Misery shouldn’t be the price for ambition. Somewhere I believe many people got the idea that to want more, you have to be dissatisfied with what you have now. Believing this, your choice is either to dampen your… » Continue

September 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: gratitude, habits, happiness, Lifehack, self-help | 15 comments»

Change The World: One Thank-you Note At A Time

Tom Chiarella at Esquire became fed up with the haphazard nature we tend to throw thank-you’s around and decided he would make a statement. A hundred or so statements.

Over the course of a month or so, Tom would send personal thank-you notes; physical, handwritten paper notes; to people he wanted to thank. Not only people he knew and saw regularly, but strangers and brief acquaintances.

His hope was to make… » Continue

August 17 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gratitude, thankyou | 2 comments»

Power of Gratitude

“We thank you for our daily bread” - People all over the world of varied religions thank the Lord on a daily basis in their prayers and actions. We teach our children to say thank you as soon as the little angles can talk. But do we understand what these two words really mean. Saying thank you and feeling gratitude may not be the same thing.

In today’s hectic… » Continue

May 28 2007 | By Vishal | Tagged: feeling, gratitude, positive | 5 comments»

Universal Values to be Grateful For

Happy Thanksgiving!

In many homes across the globe people are giving thanks, and talking about those people, places and things they appreciate and are most grateful for. It’s a wonderful Thanksgiving Day practice, one that would transform us all into kinder, gentler, and more appreciative human beings if only we did it more often.

Seven days ago, I asked you to “choose values” to help you “get everything else you need… » Continue

November 23 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: appreciation, choices, gratitude, thankfulness, thanksgiving, values | no comments»