Changeability Podcast: Manage Your Mind - Change Your Life

‘Gratitude is a habit of the heart.’ Alexis de Tocqueville  It’s all very well knowing gratitude is the best attitude but how do we actually do it – how do we do gratitude?  Because we’re not talking about noticing a lot of nice things today that make us feel all warm and fuzzy and then forgetting it all for the next month. That’s not going to help us much. And the evidence tells us that gratitude and appreciation are helpful to us. They make us feel happier right now, and in our lives in the future, they put us in a good place from which to make the changes we want. As we mentioned last week, by deliberately seeking out gratitude filled moments you train your mind to be on the look out for more. An article by Eric Barker in TIME Magazine this week ‘Here’s How to Scientifically Train Your Mind to Be Happy’ talked about the very same thing. He wrote that training your mind to look for errors and problems (as happens in careers like accounting and law) can lead to a pervasive pessimism that carries over in