Thrive in 2025: Practice Gratitude

The key to happiness, they say, is gratitude. Here are three ways that you can practice gratitude today.

Hello, I'm Kate Cocker and this is your everyday positivity. All this week, I'm taking you through the pillars of positivity. These are the things that you can do to create, cultivate and maintain the positive mindset. They will help you to find happiness in every single day. They will help you to see difficult situations as things that you can handle. These are practices that you can put into place and pillar positivity. Number three is practice gratitude.

you and I both know that gratitude is the lever upon which you can pull yourself out of a right funk because it sits with pillar of positivity number two, which is the last episode, except the nail so well. But I wanted to give you three ways to practice gratitude today. Number one, at the end of every single day, write down three, four, five things that you are grateful for.

in that day. Things that have happened, things that feel good really lock them down. They don't have to be overly written but just make a note of what are the three things that you're grateful for today. Practice number two, you could literally right now write down 50 things that you are grateful for and the reason that this is so good this exercise is because it really forces you to go small

I'm grateful I won't open my eyes this morning. I'm grateful I have the phone because I'm connected to people. I'm grateful that I have my ways of getting around the house. I'm grateful for my coffee machine. It's like really looking at and cherishing what you have in your life right now. And then the third way to practise gratitude. And I started doing this at the end of last year when things were getting really busy and I was starting to feel a bit blue. I thought, right, I'm going to look for the speckles of joy through every single day.

And so when something happened that I was grateful for or made me happy, I would write it into my phone. So I'd just have my phone with me. Should I have all this? I was welded to it. Are you welded to your phone? I'm quite welded to mine. So yeah, so I've got my phone with me. And for example, when I woke up one that morning, I decided my husband's hand was on the base of my back and I was like, oh, I'm so grateful for the fact that I have a lovely husband who has his hand on the back on my back right now.

And then I got up and I walked down to my coffee machine and I was like, oh, I'm so grateful for my coffee machine. I just made a note of it. And when really nice things happened or little things happened, I just got, I really tuned into it and just made sure that I was grateful for it. That's why this practice goes really well hand in hand with Except the Now.

So three ways to practise gratitude today. One, on a daily basis, log three things you're grateful for that day. Two, just randomly write yourself a list of 50 things you're grateful for, big to small. And three, notice you're happy. Write it down through the day. I'm really glad that we got that coffee machine, you know. Anyway, point being those are three ways that you can practise gratitude and gratitude is the key to happiness. And it is the lever upon which you can pull yourself out of a funk, any funk.

I'll be back tomorrow with pillar of positivity number four. In the meantime, if you are in the way of getting going into the new year, there is a journal journey ready and waiting for you. If you are a squirrel member of the Everyday Positivity Patreon, this will be in your Patreon feed right now. If not, please go and sign up as a squirrel member because you'll get this and you'll also get yourself access to some of the accountability sessions that I'm running through January.

The journal journey itself, I should tell you about that, is all about setting goals and creating the habits to get you there. So I'm really excited. I'm doing this one day by day by day this time. So please come and join me in the squirrel membership at patreon.com forward slash everyday positivity. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a great day and remember you have 100% got this.