Count Your BlessingsJuly 13, 2005
"I've always been unlucky," moaned an Aussie rugby player. "If Brigitte Bardot had had triplets, I would have been the one on the bottle."
I, on the other hand, feel blessed. I need only read the daily newspaper, with its accounts of bombings and crashes, starvation and disease, to be reminded how lucky I am.
Many years ago, I read an article, "Reflections on Happiness," in which Nathaniel Branden wrote about his wife Devers. Even though she hadn't had an easy life, she was an uncommonly happy person. One of the keys to her happiness was that she "almost never went to sleep at night without taking time to review everything good in her life; those were typically her last thoughts of the day."
For a long time, I followed Devers's ritual. But it became too mechanistic for me, so I changed it. What I do now before falling asleep is look back on the day and identify five moments to be especially grateful for.
It should be easy. But - < |