One day you'll just wake up and actually feel like actually feel,
I know what that feeling is like of I'm so grateful for my life.
I think most people don't even know what it feels like to be grateful.
We all brush our teeth every morning, and night why?
Because it's important, it needs to be a habit.
What happens if you stop brushing your teeth?
Things will start to decay.
And the same thing is with our mind, we have to create habits for our mind to feed
it, the positives, the gratitude, looking forward to the things that will happen
today, the daily affirmation of seeing your vision
of who you're becoming, who you want to become in the world,
recalling yourself and looking back of what great things happened today,
that's really the fundamentals of the “Five Minute Journal”,
and the idea of the gratitude you only start to feel when you do it.
It may, yeah feel fake at the beginning when you do it,
“ok, I'm grateful for this, I'm grateful for that”,
if you do it consistently for at least six months to a year,
what has happened even to us, if you actually do it
and you practice it like ,”I’m just going to stick to this like brushing my teeth
and I’m going to keep it on my bedside table with a pen,
and when I wake up I'm going to do this thing”.
And what happens with time, it's the same thing like when you have your
newborn grow up, next thing you know, they're like,
wow, they're walking and talking, how did this happen?
It just happened so quickly, so fast.
And same thing with the practice of gratitude, one day you'll just wake up and actually feel,
like actually feel, I know what that feeling is like of
I'm so grateful for my life and how many people who have way more than
I have in regards to financial resources, they're
maybe billionaires have these companies, have even bigger families
and they're unhappy.
Simply because they don't have that habit and practice
of actually seeing the things that they have and they're consciously just focusing on their
desires and the things they haven't achieved yet,
and that's why you have to reverse that and actually see,
“whoa, let's actually look what I do have”.
And that's why I believe this is the most, if you ask me even here and now like what's
the most life changing thing that I've done in my life,
is simply practicing gratitude, and the way it started for me before I even
created the “Five Minute Journal”, it was
training myself to as soon as I wake up to think of at least one thing that I'm grateful
for, that's it.
So I challenge anybody, you don't need to buy the “Five Minute Journal”,
just tomorrow when you wake up, commit yourself for the next year
to think of one thing that you’re grateful for when you wake up.
And what will happen is you wake up tomorrow, you might forget,
“ok, I'm going to do it again tomorrow”.
You wake up tomorrow, maybe you remember and you say, “I'm grateful for waking up”,
great, little things, focus on what you have and just keep practicing
it.
And to make a habit, there’ll be maybe weeks when you'll forget
again to practice this habit of being grateful as soon as you wake up,
then you remember and you get on it again.
And with time, this is what I did for myself, this was the life changing thing for me,
with time, you just wake up and you feel gratitude, you feel gratitude for just being alive,
you feel gratitude for having a partner who's sleeping next to you like,
“wow, I have a partner who is amazing”, instead of looking and focusing on what you
don't have and it really transforms your life and then
it allows you to actually create more abundance in your life because
you don't have a scarcity mindset, you start thinking abundantly,
you start thinking of all the things that you do have.
And the biggest hack is being grateful for things that you don't have
and really putting in the present moment as you do have them.
We've created a manifest of so many things like that, in my five minute journal
I’ve written things for a long time before they came true,
but I'll be grateful for it because that emotion of gratitude,
you're already giving thanks, you're already giving it, you're not trying
to take you're already saying, “thank you”, and
you feel it, and the feeling inside is something only you
yourself will know what it's like to be grateful.