It’s Healthful To Be Grateful All Year, Not Just On Thanksgiving, So Focus On The Good And You’ll Get More Of It!

JoAnna Brandi, author of the book 54 Ways to Stay Positive in a Changing, Challenging and Sometimes Negative World,says you can create positive changes in your life by developing an attitude of gratitude and happiness year ‘round. Brandi asserts one way to develop and expand your awareness on the subject is to create a Gratitude Journal…and then write in it nightly.

She also suggests keeping a “departmental” journal in an easily accessible spot at work, and encourage everyone on your team to write at least one line daily about something for which they’re grateful. It’s a simple exercise which will help people focus on something that makes them happy and appreciative.

It also gets your team on the lookout for more of the same. And being focused on what’s positive, contends Brandi, will have a powerful impact on the way co-workers interact as well as how they treat customers.


Feeling grateful and happy can reduce stress, boost your immune system, open your mind to new possibilities, and make it easier to be kind and creative.

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