Teenagers all over the world are dealing with the
stress and pressure of being a high school student
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From trying to pass classes to being able to maintain
healthy relationships....
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Teens are struggling to stay afloat!
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The key to living a good life is to be grateful for
everything that has contributed to where you are in life.
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Being grateful has proven to lead to better
lives of high school students
by improving their happiness and leading
to more optimism instead of pessimisim.
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Having gratitude can improve your happiness leading you to have a better more positive life
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According to a study at the Univeristy of California, people
who were asked to write what they were grateful for, for 10 weeks were...
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more optimistic about life and "exercised more and
had fewer visits to physicians than those
who focused on sources of aggravation."
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Another way that being grateful can help teens have a good life is
by them being more optimistic instead of pessimistic.
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As Thomas Edison said after failing numerous times
in an attempt to create the lightbulb...
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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Edison's positive attitude towards trying until he reached
his goals and then reflected on how grateful he was for his failures show
how good of a life Edison lived!
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Many people wonder, why should I be grateful if bad stuff happens?
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Changing your attitude to a positive attitude
improves the quality of your life!
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having a grateful attitude improves your life because you
are not focused on the negatives in your life.
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Your life can become so much better if you instill
a grateful mindset into everything you do!
