I could see that something had changed in him. He seemed less intense, more at peace with himself. “Where did you park the jet?” He sighed. “Sold it. I’m also selling our vacation house in Hawaii.” “Too bad, I never got to mooch a vacation there,” I said. “How come?” “We just decided to get our priorities straight. All this stuff—our material posse

“My point is, it’s hard once people have kids. I don’t understand kids really.”

A simple shift of language can help us turn towards gratitude. For example, try switching ‘I have to …’ with ‘I get to …’