We have so much to think about during November, National Gratitude Month, and as we approach our Thanksgiving holiday. With so much doom and gloom in the headlines, how can we be more thankful, and experience the magic of gratitude? Here are three easy ways that we can live with more gratitude every day based on our research study and book.

As a country, we just experienced an emotional presidential election that left some elated and others nervous and anxious. We continue to see great hunger and poverty in a large portion of the world. In the U.S., we are seeing a loneliness epidemic and a rise in teen suicide.

It’s actually in times of difficulty and despair that we need to practice more gratitude. We need to force ourselves to look at the bright side. We need the feel-good hormones that gratitude creates. We need to be less on edge about things that are out of our control and instead focus on the positive.

I recently completed a research study and wrote a book, Common Wisdom, in which I scientifically defined wisdom as eight elements........

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