Watched a video yesterday about Coal miners in the Congo & it made me feel more grateful to be working shit hours, but atleast I'm getting compensated decently well.
What do you guys do to make yourself feel grateful consistently?
I'm not justifying the terrible culture & hours at banks, rather I'm interested in how you remind yourself to be grateful.
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Whenever you feel ungrateful, remember the things you have and then think how much you’d long for them if they were not yours.
I go through old rejection emails from past recruiting seasons. Makes me appreciate where I got to.
this is actually great advice
I still get random rejection emails from positions I applied to long in the past (say more than a year ago). I sit back and smile realizing how happy I am not to be working at those places. Makes me really appreciate my current job.
I try to remember that I went through a lot of shit over the years and that even though things are tough sometime, I have been through it before and can do it again, and when that mentality wavers, I have my family and amazing friends to help me out. I've lost friends and family over the years, and missing them keeps me humble and reminds me of what really matters the most in life. I guess at the end of the day, I'm just happy to be here.
Be aware of each blessing from breathing to eating to sleeping. It is all a gift.
19 year olds are my favorite gift from above, what about you?
I remind myself of the assumptions I make in a given day. I assume that my home will have electricity, my tap will have running water, my family will still be healthy and well, my friends will still be in afflicted by COVID, my workspace will be undamaged and I will still be healthy and well. These assumptions remind me of everything I take for granted in a given day - things that don’t exist universally and things others would cherish in my position.
My great uncle was a coal miner in WV. Got his eye blown out in an accident.
The toil of people who came before me allowed me to be where I am, and it gives me strength to know that his struggle wasn’t for nothing.
That said I think at some point in our lifetimes, we’ll see a scrip bonus on Wall Street that can only be used on company merch/Red Bull
The same way you did. Just take a step back and ackowledge that things could be worse. Try to be empathetic and think about other people's struggles.
It's important to realize the difference between being grateful and being happy. You shouldn't feel at all forced to be "happy" all the time, you're completely allowed to have your down days...And like the other posters have said, if you want to be grateful, just take a step back and realize that you have it a lot better than most people...And that a lot of things in life have gone your way that you had nothing to do with.
Quia blanditiis laboriosam earum distinctio sed aut at. Dolor quia atque laudantium ipsum velit laborum sapiente. Expedita qui sed repellendus natus sunt atque.
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