What are you grateful for today?It’s a question I throw at the end of coaching sessions with my clients. I stole the question from the Coursera version of Yale’s most popular class ever, “The Science of Well-Being,” led by Laurie Santos, Ph.D.
In this course, you’re tasked with writing down the things for which you’re grateful every day for a week.The idea is two-fold.
One, it breaks you out of negativity traps by training you to focus on and acknowledge the real good in your life, which helps you develop a positive outlook.
Two, if you recall the things you’re grateful for in detail, your brain thinks it’s experiencing them again — so you’ll have multitudes of goodness in you.[Read: ADHD and the Power of Positive Thinking]Gratitude is an essential practice for those of us with ADHD, as we often harbor a nagging assumption that we’re less than.
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