why gratitude won't work it won't work
if you don't practice it it's like
having any other tool in the old toolkit
you got to take advantage of it and use
it and particularly speaking a gratitude
journal something that I talk about all
the time the fact is if you write
something down it's been proven over and
over again that you can get a gratitude
mindset and attitude of gratitude if you
write it down it plants it in your brain
even better there's an old saying that
they say that if you think about it it's
like a dream if you talk about it it
inspires you but if you write about it
it empowers you and all the research is
showing that when you write it down I am
a so grateful to my girlfriend for
taking me out to dinner last night it
plants it in your brain and it gives you
a better feeling overall of being
grateful for the blessings and abundance
that you have but it's so important if
you have a gratitude journal fantastic
is it a cure for the common cold i don't
know but it's a cure for a lot of things
and one of the things that I noticed is
when you write every day on this it has
a template it fig it gives you a little
day and a date to fill out and a daily
number so you kind of take your your
temperature if you will and see how
you're feeling there's two lines for
current events and special occasions so
you don't have to have a separate diary
then there's about five or six lines
that cues you up here and says "I'm so
grateful for." And you write down five
or six things you're grateful for and
then two lines for the highlight of your
day if you write in the morning that's
what the best thing was that happened to
you yesterday and then there's a
gratitude quote at the bottom on the
left hand side and on the right hand
side is gratitude for tomorrow where
you're grateful for something that
hasn't even happened yet so again is it
the cure for the common cold maybe not
but it goes a long ways every day I
write in the gratitude journal in the
morning as part of my power hour and
it's part of stretching and meditation
and doing starting the coffee machine
making my bed all those types of things
getting ready for the day and then
cracking the devices and looking at the
laptop or the phone or whatever but it
sets the tone for the day and when you
think about it it gets you all set up
i'm grateful for this i go through my
health and my two sons the business that
I have many many things I'm grateful for
plants it in my brain as I said but
what's nice about it in terms of being
the cure for something is if I get in a
bad mood which happened about a week or
two ago I just grab the journal and
rewrite or reread rather what I wrote in
the morning and it gives me kind of
another injection in the afternoon of
all the things I'm grateful for so try
it out it won't work unless you use it
and one of the things I always say well
how how long should I write how many
minutes how long should I take in my
gratitude journal something is better
than nothing it's better to do less than
you hope for than nothing at all so if
you want to start out and you can get
one of these journals i'll put a link in
the description you can get one of these
or get one of your own but if you start
out writing one word just start out
writing one word every day to kind of
get the gratitude muscle going if you
will and then graduate maybe to a
sentence and then two sentences and then
maybe bullet points this takes me five
or six minutes every single day and it
sets the tone for my day so it's so
important but it can be the cure for a
lot maybe not the common cold but it can
be the cure for a lot of things in life
if you just give it a chance to help you
to focus on every day all the things you
had to be grateful for in your life it's
been proven over and over again the
research has said it helps you
physically mentally emotionally and even
spiritually can make a big difference it
made a huge difference in my life i'd
like you to consider giving it a try i'm
that gratitude guy remember be grateful
and never quit