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Gratitude for the Lousy Ingrate

If platitudes like “be grateful” tend to light a fire of rage in you, you’re not alone—and you may benefit from a slightly different path to accessing the many gifts of a regular gratitude practice.

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On a busy road in a neighborhood in the city where I live, there was a garage door I used to give the finger to every time I passed by. 

It was a pretty regular garage door in every way, except that stenciled on it, in two-foot-high letters, were the words be grateful.

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Nothing got my back up like that garage door. 

“What on earth are you doing,” my husband asked, the first time I broke out of our conversation to flip a door the bird. 

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