Because gratitude is a real happiness magnet, it’s essential to invite it into your daily life. But how do you go about it? Where do you start? Here are 4 simple and magical tips for living with gratitude.

1 – Why we don’t know how to live with gratitude

In fact, we’ve learned to focus on the negative, to see what’s wrong, to dwell on our mistakes and imagine the worst catastrophes.

What’s more, the way our minds work, it’s easier for them to retain and focus on the negative. Because it thinks we have to protect ourselves from it at all costs, it plans, it projects, it dwells on everything negative in our lives or on the worst that could happen to us.

In other words, it’s no wonder we find it hard to live with gratitude.

The thing is, it’s not because we’ve learned to focus on the negative and harbor a mind that loves to reflect on the negative 24/7 that we’re condemned to continue living this way.

In fact, everything we’ve learned can be unlearned, and we can learn to live with our negative mind.

How can we do this?

By adopting the right habits and reflexes.

2 – But what’s living with gratitude?

But, first of all, what does it mean to live with gratitude?

In fact, the problem with this idea of living with gratitude is that we tend to idealize it, to the point where we even ridicule it.

But that’s not what living with gratitude is all about.

In fact, it’s not about pretending that everything’s fine, that everyone’s nice and kind. It isn’t.

Living with gratitude is about seizing the little moments of joy in everyday life.

It’s knowing how to capture the look in our lover’s eyes, the smile on our child’s face, the song of a bird, the caress of the wind, the warmth of a ray of sunshine.

Not necessarily in the moment, because we’re often worrying about a thousand and one things, but rather in the evening before going to bed and/or in the morning when we wake up.

Remember that there are moments of joy in our lives, and smile just thinking about them.

In fact, living with gratitude, at the very beginning, means giving yourself 5 minutes of pure joy, and relief too.

Realizing that not everything in our lives is perfect, but not everything is black either.

3 – The magic tool for radiating joy

But how can we remember to give ourselves those 5 minutes of gratitude?

It’s a magical tool that changed my life, and no doubt it will change yours too.

In fact, it’s very simple.

First of all, get yourself a little notebook that you particularly like.

Then, every evening and/or morning, list 3 things that make you want to say “thank you”, that make you smile.

At first, it may not be easy to list these 3 things, so take your time.

Then, before closing your notebook and getting on with your life, take 10 deep breaths.

Close your eyes and let the 3 things you’ve just listed bring a smile to your face and make your heart beat a little faster.

Feel that urge, that very need to say “thank you, thank you for being alive”.

I wholeheartedly invite you to implement this life-changing habit.

Because living with gratitude is the best way to be happy in your life. I believe it wholeheartedly, I’m even convinced of it, because it’s what happened to me and what’s still happening to me every day.

Gratitude is magic!

4 – Remember: the magic wand that will change your life is you!

You know when you’re not feeling well in your life, you’d like to have a magic wand and make 3 wishes to change what’s wrong in your life.

I know, because just a few years ago, I would have given a lot to have that magic wand.

But as I began my apprenticeship in happiness, I discovered that the magic wand that will help me change my life is me.

In fact, my life is just waiting for me to radiate happiness and joy.

And for me, living with gratitude is the basis for transforming my life.

All too often, we wait for life to smile on us. But that’s a big mistake.

We shouldn’t wait for happiness, we should learn about it, cultivate it and nurture it.

It’s because we learn to see all those little moments of joy, which tend to go completely unnoticed, that the magic happens.

Quite simply, because there’s a very simple law of the Universe: whatever we focus our attention on expands.

In other words, the more I focus on the reasons I have to be happy in my life, the more I see.

I’m not asking you to take my word for it, I’m asking you to try it for the next 30 days.

Go out and buy yourself a pretty notebook and write down 3 reasons you have for saying “thank you”, for smiling, every evening and/or morning.

Find out more about being happy in life

I invite you to read 2 complementary articles:

Discover Mirror effect: 3 secrets for becoming a better version of yourself!
Discover Learning to enjoy life even when everything seems to be going wrong

I recommend this inspiring books on the subject:

The Power of Rhonda Byrne.

I loved this book, in which the author explains how she lives with gratitude. This book is a real ray of sunshine, with lots of details about giving love and the fact that what you give comes out. When you think negative thoughts, switch to positive ones and sending love is powerful. No matter how bad the situation, think gratitude and change your mindset.
I absolutely adored it!

Thank you very much for reading this article.

If you liked it, let me know in the comments.

Take care of yourself.