Learning not to do this is an ongoing lesson.  In the meantime, if we’re going to compare ourselves to others, we ought to at least have some perspective.  Instead of comparing yourself to the relatively few human beings who live as well or better than we do, expand your view and compare your life to the normal human experience – ie all people past and present. Once upon a time, I was a young, poor single mom who couldn’t pay my bills and would search for coins to buy milk fo

Here’s what I do: anytime I am feeling good as I go through my day, I take a few seconds to thing of things that I am grateful for. Usually I’m grateful for whatever triggered my good feeling and I acknowledge that. Then I take a few seconds to think of a couple of other things that make me happy and be grateful for those as well. This way, I can experience gratitude in real time. By adding on a quick thought for other things I’m grateful for, I might even get to extend th