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If you are anything like me, you have started and abandoned different gratitude practices for hundreds of times. Sure, we all know on an intellectual level that gratitude is the basis of happiness, acceptance, joy, and fulfillment. Countless gurus, teachers and figures we admire preached the importance of “counting our blessings”. We have all bought gratitude journals, opened designated gratitude documents, started and listed and (often) got out of it pretty quickly. Not because it doesn’t work. But, it wears off easily. We all write that we are grateful for our family, partner, that money in the bank and the roof above the head, and it feels pretty good. Tomorrow, we write the version of the same thing, but the delight has ceased. Then the next day, we write another version of that and see our high school friend’s photos from Costa Rica on Instagram, and the good ol’ list just won’t do the trick.
In Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Mark Manson said:
“We have evolved to live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it is mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that is going to do the most work to innovate and survive. We are wired to become dissatisfied with whatever we have and satisfied by only what we don’t have. The constant dissatisfaction has kept our species fighting and striving, building and…
