It's easy to talk about gratitude for a few minutes during Thanksgiving. But the power of gratitude is a life changing mental state. It can be a life changing process where you can feel a change in your mindset. It allows you to create new ideas, thoughts, processes and outcomes. Importantly, gratitude also can change the mindset of those around you to see that the things which they squawk about are not as bad as they once imagined. Finding gratitude in any situation doesn't mean complacency, but rather you see your present good as a firm foundation on which to build higher achievements.