We are heading into November!
The month of Thanks, here in the U.S. So I polled our Experts on Gratitude and asked them to share their thoughts on how to find more gratitude.
Why Gratitude?
As entrepreneurs its easy to get focused on the customers we don’t have, the money we don’t have, the tools, resources or support that we don’t have and sometimes we forget how good life is. If you had asked me about gratitude when I started working on changing my brain. Well, I would get angry and plenty of people did ask me about that. I had a therapist actually suggest a gratitude journal. Which was clearly not going to help my parenting, my marriage, or my financial situation.
I wanted help but didn’t know where to turn. What I didn’t understand at the time was what she was suggesting wasn’t a fix for anything other than my brain. I was so deep into the challenges that i couldn’t see the solutions. My brain had stopped looking for them, and I was only looking for how hard everything was. I share this because what I had to learn was how my brain works. Once I learned that, I realized that gratitude is an incredibly powerful practice.
Gratitude is a Practice
You’ll notice I said practice right? Practice is a process – it’s not a perfect thing, it’s not a task that’s done and over once it’s done and over. It’s a process of performing an action repeatedly and through that process learning. In the perspective shifters group right now we’re talking about energy and intention; this plays into that. You can join our group here: Perspective Shifters: Finding Life Balance and Elevating Business | Facebook
Here are some of our expert’s thoughts on how to practice gratitude.
Gratitude from Tom Rebro:
Start in the morning. List up to 10 things your are grateful for and say thankyou. Close your eyes and smile. Take a few breaths. To rewire brain in gratitude.
-For one month. List 7 things you are grateful for. They must be different every day.
-At the end of the month you will have 210 different things to be grateful for.
-You will have rewired your brain to be grateful every day.
Make that gratitude chemical a habit and rewire your brain 🧠 🙏 ✨️
Gratitude from Linda Larson-Schlitz:
Love this topic. Every day I and over 100 people in my private Facebook group are encouraged to do the 3 G’s. Starting with at least 1 thing you are grateful for 1 thing that you acknowledge that you are Good at and your Goals for the day. I encourage people to do the 3 G’s ALL DAY LONG as Gratitude, Positive Self-talk and Achieving Goals all give us a chemical boost of dopamine.
Laundry for example. If you struggle to get it from the hamper back into the drawer here’s how you use the 3 G’s…. “I am grateful that I have clothes to wash and a washing machine to do them. I am good at setting goals and completing tasks. My Goal is to do a load of laundry from start to finish. THEN… I set out to accomplish the goal and put my clothes in the washer. When I set my alarm to return to move them to the dryer while I say, “I am grateful I followed through with that, I am good at following through with my laundry, the goal is to come back in 45 minutes and put it in the dryer.”
I am so grateful that I have an Alexa to remind me of stuff and so grateful that I have a dryer and don’t have to hang them on the line outside like I used to. I am good at looking at the positive things about doing laundry, Goal is to finish drying the clothes and take them upstairs, and put them away. You get the picture: every time we talk to ourselves it gives us a boost and pushes us to that next thing. It takes practice but it’s worth it!!
Feel free to join Linda’s group on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/speaktomegodimlistening
Gratitude from Stephanie Kunkel
1) Look up the term unconscious bias. This will teach you why gratitude is so powerful. (If it doesn’t reach out to me, I’m happy to chat with you about it.)
2) Find 3 items, people, or places that are in front of you in this moment that you feel make your life more enjoyable, convenient, or hopeful.
3) Take a deep breath. That’s it. You don’t need a journal to practice gratitude (although they help if you’re into that kind of thing,) You just need to pause and take a peak around.
Comment below with some ways that you’ve found to practice gratitude.
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