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It was essential to feel thankful for the few who stopped to watch or listen, instead of wasting energy on resenting the majority who passed me by.

The best way to kick-start this is to start making a daily list of the good things in your job, your career, and your life.

The solution here is to catch yourself when you fall into your habit of insisting that things should be other than they are. Gently remind yourself that life is okay the way it is, right now. In the absence of your judgment, everything would be fine.

"Look around. Look around. How lucky we are to be alive right now!"

Being grateful is about looking around, opening our eyes to all the little things that we might take for granted.

Now, I believe that one of the most mood-enhancing feelings in life is to be grateful for even the smallest of things and, while I was still immobile and unable to breathe or eat unaided, unsure even of my own bladder and bowel movements, helpless in even the simplest tasks, I was hit by what felt like a mountain of gratitude.

I feel true gratitude. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. --attributed to ALBERT EINSTEIN