Coins in the couch cushions were always there. You just never reached down to look. Gratitude is like that.

Gratitude is mostly a matter of attention rather than acquisition. The good things in your life are not waiting to be delivered, they are already here and have gone unnoticed because nothing about them is new. Noticing them does not require pretending the hard parts are fine. It just stops you spending the whole week looking past what you already have.

Three nights this week, before you sleep, name two things that were already true and already good. A ride somebody gave you, a dog, a working knee. Say them, do not just think them.