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why gratitude won't work it won't work
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if you don't practice it it's like
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having any other tool in the old toolkit
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you got to take advantage of it and use
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it and particularly speaking a gratitude
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journal something that I talk about all
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the time the fact is if you write
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something down it's been proven over and
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over again that you can get a gratitude
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mindset and attitude of gratitude if you
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write it down it plants it in your brain
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even better there's an old saying that
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they say that if you think about it it's
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like a dream if you talk about it it
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inspires you but if you write about it
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it empowers you and all the research is
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showing that when you write it down I am
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a so grateful to my girlfriend for
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taking me out to dinner last night it
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plants it in your brain and it gives you
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a better feeling overall of being
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grateful for the blessings and abundance
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that you have but it's so important if
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you have a gratitude journal fantastic
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is it a cure for the common cold i don't
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know but it's a cure for a lot of things
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and one of the things that I noticed is
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when you write every day on this it has
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a template it fig it gives you a little
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day and a date to fill out and a daily
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number so you kind of take your your
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temperature if you will and see how
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you're feeling there's two lines for
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current events and special occasions so
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you don't have to have a separate diary
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then there's about five or six lines
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that cues you up here and says "I'm so
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grateful for." And you write down five
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or six things you're grateful for and
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then two lines for the highlight of your
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day if you write in the morning that's
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what the best thing was that happened to
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you yesterday and then there's a
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gratitude quote at the bottom on the
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left hand side and on the right hand
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side is gratitude for tomorrow where
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you're grateful for something that
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hasn't even happened yet so again is it
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the cure for the common cold maybe not
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but it goes a long ways every day I
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write in the gratitude journal in the
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morning as part of my power hour and
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it's part of stretching and meditation
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and doing starting the coffee machine
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making my bed all those types of things
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getting ready for the day and then
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cracking the devices and looking at the
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laptop or the phone or whatever but it
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sets the tone for the day and when you
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think about it it gets you all set up
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i'm grateful for this i go through my
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health and my two sons the business that
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I have many many things I'm grateful for
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plants it in my brain as I said but
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what's nice about it in terms of being
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the cure for something is if I get in a
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bad mood which happened about a week or
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two ago I just grab the journal and
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rewrite or reread rather what I wrote in
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the morning and it gives me kind of
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another injection in the afternoon of
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all the things I'm grateful for so try
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it out it won't work unless you use it
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and one of the things I always say well
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how how long should I write how many
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minutes how long should I take in my
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gratitude journal something is better
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than nothing it's better to do less than
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you hope for than nothing at all so if
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you want to start out and you can get
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one of these journals i'll put a link in
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the description you can get one of these
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or get one of your own but if you start
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out writing one word just start out
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writing one word every day to kind of
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get the gratitude muscle going if you
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will and then graduate maybe to a
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sentence and then two sentences and then
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maybe bullet points this takes me five
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or six minutes every single day and it
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sets the tone for my day so it's so
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important but it can be the cure for a
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lot maybe not the common cold but it can
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be the cure for a lot of things in life
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if you just give it a chance to help you
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to focus on every day all the things you
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had to be grateful for in your life it's
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been proven over and over again the
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research has said it helps you
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physically mentally emotionally and even
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spiritually can make a big difference it
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made a huge difference in my life i'd
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like you to consider giving it a try i'm
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that gratitude guy remember be grateful
