Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2190. I recently

came across a study from 2023 where these researchers pulled together 64 gratitude experiments from

around the world. And they asked one question, can something small actually help people that are really struggling?

People who are really going through it. And the participants were college students drowning in

pressure, parents who are stretched thin, teenagers battling anxiety, adults dealing with

burnout and loneliness and depression. these were real people in the

middle of real storms and the interventions that all of them received was something simple

something incredibly small almost laughable how small they were and they were were little tiny gratitude interventions. Some of them

wrote down three things they were grateful for. One person wrote one gratitude message a week.

There was a person who had a two-minute reflection practice on all the things that went well that

day. They were all small, didn't take a lot of effort, didn't take a lot of energy, didn't take a

lot of time.

But when the researchers took a look at all the data, something surprising showed up across

all of those people with stressful, stressful, messy, complicated, painful lives, gratitude made a measurable

difference for every single one of them. They reported less anxiety, fewer depressive

symptoms, better emotional stability, higher life satisfaction. So there's circumstances.

It didn't get easier.

It didn't go away.

They were just stronger.

They were able to navigate it.

And what it shows is that the science, the research is clear that even in a thick of

adversity, even during difficult times, gratitude, those tiny little quiet

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