Christmas Eve 2013

Hi, it's the Broker That Gratitude guy, Christmas Eve

Of course, we have the holidays upon us. We just passed Thanksgiving, such a great time to think about being grateful

And now we're at Christmas Eve, and then tomorrow, of course, is Christmas, and then New Year's around the corner

But I thought about Christmas Eve, about how it's such another example of a time

to be really grateful for our family, and for our friends, and our health, and as we reflect back on the year that's just passed

and about a new one about to start. But it also reminded me of how we can sometimes

kind of get out of whack sometimes, and this is why I'm such an advocate of a gratitude journal, to kind of remind us all the time

of everything we're grateful for, versus worrying so much about what we don't have

in our life or are not grateful for, I guess. I realized when I was younger, my parents were divorced

and as it got around Christmas time, I was married. We had about five or six different places to go

and there was the aunts, and the uncles, and my in-laws, and my mom's side, my dad's side

and they were each married again, and so forth. I remember kind of complaining at the time

wow, this is kind of a hassle, we have to get all these different presents, and different boxes, and everything

But even back then, of course I was a lot younger, I started thinking about how, oh, let's not complain

you may be in a situation sometime where you have no place to go. Sure enough, flash forward about 20 or 30 years later

my parents are long since passed on, and so forth, and different situations where I ended up on a Christmas Eve

this very day, no place to go. And I remember thinking, how did this happen

I used to have so many different places to go, but I was so grateful for those times

and just use that as a reminder to remember there's always those things that

we have people that are more fortunate, less fortunate, and everywhere in between, but if you constantly focus

on everything you're grateful for, you'll always have it reframed, and refocused

in the right frame of mind, and that's the most important thing of all. Be grateful on this Christmas Eve

we'll have another video tomorrow on Christmas Day, but be thinking about that, and all the great things you have in your life

as we get ready to celebrate Christmas tomorrow. That's it for today, we'll see you tomorrow

Have a grateful day