The lifestyle practices of mindfulness and gratitude have rose to momentum since the past few years. They have generated a landscape of catch phrase inspired self-help movements which have made quite an impact in providing people positive messages. Desire for a better outlook is an experimental, self-interpretive art book that blends illustrated visuals with free verse poetry in typographic experimentation. It deconstructs and breaks down mindfulness, gratitude and critical thinking by viewing them through the lens of real life situations in order to provide a more tangible and authentic narrative about these practices. The visuals of this book are based on predominantly faceless and expressionless abstract figures because of which they provide the viewer with a lot of freedom to interpret it according to their own subjective experiences. Hence rather than spoon feeding the wisdom infused tablets of these popular movements, this book with some direction gives its audience a chance to form their own opinions if they choose to do so. In doing so, it enables the viewer to perceive and interpret it on their own and ensue their respective thought process.