I fully recommend this book. It changed my life. —Betty “More than just saying Happy New Year—let’s actually make this new year happy.” Who isn’t kinda quietly desperate to make this new year happy? When you’ve survived an unimaginable year, it’s not hard to imagine how hungry the soul is for joy. Turns out, the most effective way to limit stress & maximize happiness, according to Harvard—is to have a habit of gratitude. Study after study found? Nothing, absolutely nothing interrupts anxiety like gratitude. The research indicates that recording just 3 gifts a day is a kind of cognitive training, a way of reorganizing your brain around a focus on goodness, & it increases an individual’s positive outlook by 25%. The way to make it a happy new year is to make the year about giving thanks because that gives you happiness. The way to fill this new year with happiness is to fill it with thankfulness to God. “Whatever you do, do everything... giving thanks” Col. 3:17 God’s will is for us to give thanks *in all things* ...because this is how we can live with *joy through anything*... This is the year to take the Joy Dare—which just gives you 3 prompts a day, to notice, find, feel the joy of seeing 3 ways God is loving you—& dare to give thanks in all things, dare to look for the good, dare to notice God’s grace, dare to pay attention to all the ways God love you. We get to choose how happy the new year will be by choosing how grateful we will be this year. And it’s true: A habit is more than something we do. Habit, in the oldest sense of the word, is about what we clothe ourselves in, what we wear. Dare to wear the habit of gratefulness & you wear the comfort of joyfulness. . . P.S.: The little book that started this habit of gratitude—One Thousand Gifts—is on sale right now (!!!) Get the *Kindle* book for less than 3 bucks!!! https://amzn.to/3mWI3TF #NewYearNewYou #TheHabitOfHappy #JoyDare #1000gifts https://www.instagram.com/p/CYMhc8CFbsF/?utm_medium=tumblr
