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and a gratitude mindset improve your day
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well I'm here to tell you that a couple
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aspects about gratitude can really help
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to improve your day first of all
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thinking about things just being
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conscious of seeing the glass half full
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and your blessings and abundance and all
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the good things that you have one of the
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exercises I do with people that are
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doing at a talk or a workshop is I have
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them write a little line about what have
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I got going on right now what are some
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of the good things I've got going on in
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my mind right now so take a piece of
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paper write it down and just take a
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minute and think about what have I got
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going on what's the good things what am
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I looking forward to this weekend what's
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good in my family and my job and my
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relationships or whatever it might be
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and write those six or eight or 10
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things down and do should we focus on
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those things that are really positive in
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our life or should we focus on the
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things that we wake up in the middle of
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the night worrying about which the
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surveys will say that one of the biggest
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things is money which I can understand
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but money family relationships jobs
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whatever those are going to be there and
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you'll find a way to get through those
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but if you have a gratitude mind mindset
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you can power your way through this as
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I've said many times two people enter a
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hospital with the same disease the
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positive attitude lives the negative
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attitude dies makes such a big
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difference but something else that I
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really encourage people to do is a
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gratitude journal and how is a gratitude
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Journal can improve my day so here's
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here's the one that I use that gratitude
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guys daily gratitude Journal I'll put a
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link in the description if you'd like to
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get one if you don't have one but it
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really really makes a difference there's
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a little saying at the beginning of the
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gratitude Journal that says if you think
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about it it's like a dream if you talk
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about it it inspires you but if you
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write about it it empowers you there's
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something about I am so grateful to Bob
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for inviting me to dinner to this
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Saturday that just plants it in your
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brain better and just it just it's it's
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makes it more solid and that's what's
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really important because one of the
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things I've noticed is here I am that
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gratitude guy do speeches and workshops
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and go I do a lot of virtual things now
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for uh Cisco WebEx and on zoom and on
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different things and so I have people do
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little exercises and things where they
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can see that how you view yourself how
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it can change so part of my daily
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routine I call it a power hour I'm going
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to talk about that in the future video
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but one of the things in there is just
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writing in my gratitude Journal before I
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start my day and I've gotten up I've
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made my bed done some other things
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stretch meditation but I write my
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gratitude journal and do a bunch of
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things and then I turn on the electronic
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devices then the laptop comes on the
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cell phone whatever it is but not until
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all those things have been done and as I
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said I'll talk about that in the future
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video some of the keys to a power hour
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but I've noticed after I've written in
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the Gratitude Journal it always kind of
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puts me in a better mood I mean I just
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think wow I'm focusing all my blessings
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and abundance everything I'm grateful
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for and in this particular gratitude
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Journal it's a it's got a template to it
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so there's a little thing you fill out
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where you fill out some different things
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the highlight of your day your daily
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number some of the things that you've
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got coming up special occasions current
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events so you don't have to have a diary
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it can all be in the journal together so
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it works works out really well but I've
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noticed in the last month or two there's
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always about one or two days a month
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where all of a sudden the Gratitude Guy
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Mr positive here Mr glass half full is
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in a real Downer and one of the things
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that's helped me the most is I grab that
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gratitude Journal I keep it right down
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there by my desk on the little shelf is
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I I grab that gratitude and I reread
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what I wrote in the morning and it gets
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me back on track and there's something
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about it because you know people your
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friends can be a big assistance to you
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and somebody said something to me the
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other day a good friend sings your song
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back to you and you've forgotten the
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lyrics and I think that's a good line
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but you know ultimately the only person
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that's there for you 247 is that person
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you see brushing your teeth they're
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always going to be there literally in in
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physically and figuratively speaking
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because there's friends you've called I
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mean like I heard this one day and I
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went you got to be kidding me somebody
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called a suicide hotline and they got a
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voicemail what a suicide hotline has oh
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hi I'm David I'm I'm thinking about
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jumping off a bridge well can you get
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back to me oh my goodness so think about
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the people the only person you're ever
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going to be able to count on 100% of the
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time is you so the more you develop that
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great relationship with yourself writing
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in a gratitude Journal can make such a
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big difference it reinforces all your
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blessings and abundance and then on
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those days when things aren't going real
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well you can go back and read it and see
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it and it'll get you back on track so
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that's the message for for today can ofr
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attitude mindset improve my day yes it
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can and it can do a great job on those
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days where things aren't quite as good
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as they usually are so think about that
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get a gratitude Journal if you like if
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you don't have one as I say the link is
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in the description and I wish you luck
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on writing in the Gratitude journal and
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make a big big big difference I'm not
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gratitude guy remember be grateful and
