The Economist blog gives us all some advice:

TODAY is Thanksgiving in America, one of the few countries that has an entire holiday at least ostensibly devoted to, well, giving thanks….

If you want to live a happier life, start a gratitude journal and spend a few minutes every day writing down the many things you have to be grateful for. Almost no one is free from the delusion that most of the rest of the world has more to be happy about than they do; a gratitude journal can help focus the mind.

If you are an American, you can start with having had the astounding good fortune to be born in the richest society in the history of the world; you had a better than 95% chance of being born somewhere poorer, and probably much less free. Someone making less than the American poverty line of $9,973 is still richer than roughly 85% of the people in the world. That should enable you to have a very happy Thanksgiving indeed.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!