GRATITUDE AND HAPPINESS: FEBRUARY 25TH

"Gratitude is the trailblazer to happiness. Do you want to be happy? Be grateful. If you are grateful, then you will not be unhappy."--Lionel Ketchian, www.happinessclub.com

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a reslut of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."--Frederick Keonig

Look for the good in all that you have to do, and in everything that happens to you, and you'll be happier.

"Grateful people tend to be the happiest," says Dr. Michael McMullough, of the Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness.

Focusing on gifts one has been given is an antidote to envy, resentment, regret and other negative states that undermine happiness.

If you are not happy as you would like to be, it is because you are not as thankful as you could be.

Eileen and Kathy