How to cultivate gratitude in your life?

So here’s the thing with being grateful. You can be grateful and ungrateful at the same time, in my opinion. I personally don’t like to measure my situation to someone else because everyone experiences things differently and me comparing myself to someone else to minimize my own feelings isn’t helpful. That’s invalidating to you. So what I do is acknowledge how I’m feeling and validate it to encourage myself to be grateful. For example, if I go to work and I’m exhausted from the night before, I may feel angry that I even had to wake up to go to work. So instead of sitting and brewing in the anger and ungratefulness all day, I try to first acknowledge how I’m feeling. I’m mad and exhausted. Then I validate that because those are reasonable feelings to my situation. However, following that, I play devil’s advocate with my situation. So I try to point out what I can control in the situation then argue the positives. In this case, yes, I’m exhausted, but I do not have to stay mad as a response. Since being exhausted, I was able to wake up and go to a job that provides for my needs (bonus if you like your job). I don’t feel guilty about my feelings from before, I just acknowledge them and reframe them. Hopefully that makes sense?

Watching sad movies or reading sad books

Taking a long hard look on those less fortunate.. When I feel like I'm taking things for granted and not being grateful for what I have.. I look for people who are less fortunate than me and help with what I can.. You'll feel so much better and u will start appreciating what u have more..