If your words are the stuffing, my design is the turkey! A pretty tasty pair, indeed, but let’s be honest: the stuffing is always better than the bird.

[Insert metaphor related to green bean casserole]

1. Even when things look bad and you feel down and depressed about the future, and your future specifically, remember how magical and exciting it is just to be alive — as a human being! a DNA miracle! — on this living, breathing, beautiful Earth!

2. A “gratitude moment” is a gift to yourself. Make is a daily habit.

3. A “gratitude moment” is a gift to yourself.Make it real.

4. A “gratitude moment” is a gift to yourself. Make is a lifeline to your future.

5. “Gratitude moments” are for everyone. They are gifts for the taking, and giving for for the giving, too.

6. A “gratitude moment” can occur at any time of the day or night. It can even become a part of a dream scenario while you are sleeping. Sleep on it.

7. “A gratitude moment” is a non-binding contract between you and God. The more you make it a binding contract, the happier you will be. For sure.

8. “A gratitude moment” does not have to be expressed verbally or written down for it to have an effect. It can also be an unspoken, inner conversation between you and God.

10. A recent Associated Press news report, published on Thanksgiving Day, reported that “Giving Thanks Brings Health and Happiness”, adding in subheadline: “Thanksgiving just once a year? Researchers say regular gratitude
promotes well-being and is good for the soul.”

12. According to Matt Sedensky, a reporter for the Associated Press, academics have long theorized that expressions of thanks promote
health and happiness and give optimism and energy to the downtrodden.
Now, the study of gratitude has become a surprisingly burgeoning
field, and research indicates being thankful might help people
actually feel better. There’s a catch, however: You have to say thanks
more than just once a year. Every day is best!

13. Gratitude must be expressed, verbally or non-verbally, often, repeatedly, for it to have an impact on your life. Says one psychology professor who has studied the subject: “If you don’t do it regularly you’re not going to get the benefits,”
according to Dr Sonja Lyubomirsky, at the University of
California. “It’s kind of like if you went to the gym once
a year. What would be the good of that?”

14. “Gratitude leads people to act in virtuous or more selfless ways,”
says a recent research paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science, adding: “It builds
social support, which we know is tied to both physical and
psychological well being.”

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