Growing up I wasn’t very grateful. I took everything I had for granted and only focused on what I did not have. I played a good game of pretending to be positive, but I was typically longing and unsatisfied.
My default mode was fear, procrastination, anxiety, avoidance, and playing small. I was in victim mode even at my best and it wasn’t fun. It resulted in my missing out on a lot of life.
As many of you reading this know, I made some major changes in my life. They are plentiful and too many to list but the most important to me was that I made a shift from victim to empowered creator. I decided that anything was possible in my life and that I would have to make a choice to create outcomes.
This shift lead to me being authentically happy for the first time in my life. There are a lot of practices, trainings, coaches, courses, teachers, and challenges that helped me to make this shift and…
The most profound and most fruitful was the simplest thing I did. I was in a group program with a dating coach, shortly after separating from my ex-wife and he recommended a daily gratitude practice. Almost 5 years later it is one of the practices that I refuse to move away from because I know the power it holds.
I’ll spare the details about how the brain changes through active gratitude practice. What I will share is that to be happy, healthy, to see possibilities, to appreciate what we have, and feel empowered to go after what we want, we must actually train the mental muscles that will help us along the path.
So I will model this right now.
I’m grateful to be alive.
I’m grateful to be able bodied and healthy.
I’m grateful to have food on my plate everyday.
I’m grateful for a roof over my head and a warm bed.
I’m grateful to my teachers, coaches and mentors.
I’m grateful to my Mankind Project Community.
I’m grateful to my amazing clients that help me live my mission.
I’m grateful to my sisters for their love and support.
I’m grateful for my amazing and supportive girlfriend.
I’m grateful for my parents for giving me life, raising me and being powerfully loving even in my darkest of times.
Gratitude practice is the single practice I recommend to most of my clients whether we are working on health, business or love life. It always matters and can be transformative.
If you want to know more about how to create a gratitude practice, simply email me at joe@dropthearmor.com and I’ll shoot you some ideas.
Happy Thanksgiving. Please take the time to practice gratitude and appreciate what you have. It makes life a whole lot easier when we are truly and authentically thankful.
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