Met a young Nigerian girl doing her Masters here in Cambridge. We met on the bus when she asked to sit next to me and I recognized her accent. I struck up a conversation with her and asked: "how has it been for you here?". She said "its been very hard. It is a struggle"
Keep yourself in the space you want your blessings to meet you at. It's easy enough to talk about an attitude of gratitude. It is quite another to live in it. To train yourself to revel in the present moment, in yourself, and your surroundings.