It helps us get the good from the good. Not only can this amplify your morning coffee experience, but it can also help you appreciate your ‘ratty’ clothes and ‘small’ home,” says Froh. “You’ll soon realize that relative to 90 percent—if not 95 percent!—of the world, you dress like royalty and live in a castle. This realization will make you, and your bank account, happy.”

Find somewhere to keep your jar, paper and pens. It’s up to you how private or public it should be, but you’ll need to be able to reach it every day. Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.” Mandy Hale and just because I love ya (and because I have been loving the quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald so much)… It’s easy to fixate on the “bad” moments of everyday life, whether you got a flat tire on the way to work or burned your leftovers for dinner. If that sounds familiar, then you might want to consider adding a gratitude practice to your daily routine. One way to do this is by creating a happiness jar.

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Create a baby happiness jar for each of your children and note down their magic moments and milestones. Then, when you are feeling down, hopeless or discouraged, you select a note from the jar and relive those small pieces of everyday magic that you’ve stashed away. That’s not to say that writing down what you’re grateful for will make you a superhuman, but it can help improve your mental and physical health.

Once you have completed your jar, try to look at it every day for a few minutes and remember how special and positive you are as a person. Dig into it when you feel you need to. Another great idea is to give a jar to a special person in your life. Fill it with all the positive, special qualities that you love about them. Enjoy watching them read through and smile. We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” Grateful people tend to be less stressed, anxious, and depressed. Some research even suggests that grateful people are less likely to have suicidal thoughts,” says Froh. “They also tend to be more alert and happy, and they have improved heart rate variability (i.e., an indicator of good heart health).”It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” Dieter F. Uchtdorf A weeding tool (I use the Cricut Basic Tool Set that has the weeding tool, scraper tool, scissors and more) Happiness jars can be great on the days when things feel more challenging than usual. They help to remind you of all the good things in your life and everything you have achieved. Create a gift for someone (give them a mason jar with pretty ribbons and a nice “Jar of Happiness” label and some blank notes and a pretty pen). You can even add some notes describing happy moments you have spent together to get the jar started. I used lowercase typewriter stamps to write the words “ the happy jar” on the wood slice and just tied it on the jar with twine.