In Conscious Communications, Mary Shores writes the Harvard Medical School in 2011 published a study on gratitude and reported that 'gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness'. She writes that "gratitude is the foundation of personal development, as it is the daily activity behind precisely how you are rewiring your brain's pathways and programming". A practice of identifying what you are grateful for everyday can "shift you more towards optimism than pessimism."
In the am, consider what are you grateful for today.
In the pm, consider one amazing thing that happened today.