There’s this tendency to complain about work. We hate our overbearing bosses, that gossipy colleague, and our lackluster jobs. With so much work stress, we tend to forget that there are also things to be grateful for. This may sound like naïve sentimentalism, but it’s true.
The past months, I have been listing down daily the things I’m grateful for at work. I started to do this when I realized that an extreme mental makeover was in order. I was complaining too much and accomplishing too little. I was nit-picking about nit-pickers and being aggressive towards offensive workmates.