How To Become More Thankful: Jade & Harlow Graphic Tees and Gifts

What a year that was, isn’t it? I must admit, 2020 was the time where my resilience and character were truly tested. Many days I have been down because of the limitations of the pandemic, and not to mention my own son caught COVID-19. However, I wanted to end that year and start this year with a positive note, which helped me wonder how to become more thankful.

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How to become more thankful: My personal story

I am a very sensitive and easily-stressed person. Given that personality, small negative things can really get the best of me. When I was working as an SLP, there’s so many mental and physical demands in my life that it is just hard not to dwell on negative thoughts. Although I was filling the cups of others, I knew that it was time to care for myself as well.

During a difficult point in my professional life, I wanted to find ways on how to feel more thankful. These mindsets and strategies truly helped me to see challenges as opportunities and to always think about the glass half full.

Hopefully, these things I will share can help you on how to be a more thankful person as well, and it is inspired by Jade & Harlow designs.

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How to become more thankful: Tips that work

Become present in the moment

Being present is a practice that has truly helped me on how to become more thankful. When I worry about the near or far future, this has always caused feelings of anxiety or sadness that I don’t have what I am thinking about.

However, paying extra attention to my immediate environment, current activity, and things I am doing at present allowed me to be extra aware of what I already have.

How do I apply this practice? For example, when I am playing with my son, I take a moment to stare into his eyes and appreciate his smile. Instead of thinking about what I am going to feed him for lunch or what time my husband is coming home, I focus on the moment.

This allows me to appreciate the gift of being a mom, the privilege of playing with him, the fact that he is growing happy and healthy.

Expressing thankfulness

Another way on how to be more thankful for what you have is expressing your gratefulness in different ways. As I said, 2020 was full of struggles not just for me but for everyone.

Thus, in 2021, I vowed to express my thankfulness more creatively, such as having this Pretty Grateful Shirt from Jade & Harlow. You can express your thankfulness by telling others, posting positivity on social media, giving back to those in need, or donning something that makes you feel grateful.

Expressing gratefulness is very contagious, and the more you do it, the more you’ll realize you have much to be thankful for.

List it down

Aside from publicly expressing your thankfulness, one thing that can help is to list down the things you are grateful for. This is a practice I have done even before I had my own family.

I always wondered to myself, “How can we be more thankful to God?” One practice that I’ve carried throughout is listing things I am grateful for in the previous day and things I am looking forward for the day. I do this every morning, and it has tremendously helped shift my mindset about starting my days.

Before, I used to have this negative thinking that “this day is going to be bad” just by the way it started. Things like being off-schedule, or jam-packed with stressors, it has been a struggle for me to feel positive. Now, through listing down things I am thankful for and looking forward to, I began to become more aware of the positive highlights in my day.

Giving thanks to God

If you believe that God is fully in control of your life, you must also believe that whatever He allows to be on your journey is for your good:

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28

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Giving thanks to God for both tough and victorious moments show your trust in Him, that no matter what, He will take care of you. I shared with a group about having an eternal perspective. An eternal perspective means that we can be grateful in this life because no matter what our destiny is secured in God.

I hope these strategies and mindsets can help you out. As always, don’t forget to check out Jade & Harlow Graphic Tees and Gifts for some amazing selections:

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