You've come here to learn how to increase positivity in 3 days. This
is day one. Thanks for joining our challenge to make you a more positive
person in just 3 days. I've been doing this for a long time in my career
and I am a black belt in positivity. Is there even such a thing? If there were, I
would be it. I've written a couple of books on positivity. I've been coaching
and training people to do this for almost three decades. And I think we can
accomplish a lot in 3 days. So, engage in this challenge and make sure you come
back tomorrow and the next day. Get all three days in and take it seriously.
Apply the challenge. Now, each day I'm going to give you the objective for that
day. I'll give you a mantra that you can repeat and think about throughout that
day. Maybe even write it up and post it on your wall somewhere. That's going to
help. And then I will give you a specific challenge to work on for that day. You
can also come over to Instagram. It's on the Instagram feed where we can interact.
You can leave comments and questions here on YouTube as well. That's another
place where we can interact over there on Instagram. So, let's get into day one.
Are you ready? The objective for day 1 is to raise our awareness about the
goodness and positivity and abundance that already exists in our life. The way
it is right now without changing anything all around us. And that goes
with the mantra for day 1. "I live an abundant and rich life." Do you feel that?
Tuned in to that because it's true. Your life is abundant and rich. I don't even
know all the details about what you're going through right now but I can tell
you if you'll stop and look at all of the rich abundant blessing
in your life that surround you right now every day, that's going to make a
difference. So, that leads us right into the challenge. Before I give you the
actual challenge, I like to give you some rationale so you know where I'm coming
from. Trust that there's a lot of psychological validity behind what I'm
about to share with you. And I'll tell you a little bit about the context.
Recently I did a video where we highlighted the top 10 books for
entrepreneurs the way that I picked them. One of the books that I highlighted was
Flip The Gratitude Switch from Kevin Claisen. Kevin's actually been here on
the channel as a guest. And he did a nice job in this book illuminating what our
next challenge is all about. Gratitude is the quickest way for you to get into a
positive evaluation of your life. I said, evaluation because I brake
positivity into two main tasks that our mind does. Evaluation and creation. We'll
come back to creation a little later in this challenge. For today, the challenge
is to flip that gratitude switch and focus on and create a list of 30 things
for which you are sincerely grateful right now about your life the way it is
without changing anything. A list of 30 things that you're grateful for. Now, I
don't want you making this up. You have to actually be grateful for it to put it
on your list, you follow? We're going to create this list. Now, you're going to have
to stretch a little because here's what powers it up. I want at least half of
your list... That's 15 items if you're doing the math. At least half of your
list comes from the hard things that are going on right now. The things in your
life that are painful or difficult or frustrating. And you've got some, don't
you? That might be one of the reasons you wanted to take this challenge on in the
first place so that you can be more positive about that stuff that's
happening. Here's what you do with your gratitude list.
Take the things that are hard whatever it is.Llet's say that you're about to go
through a bankruptcy like I was years ago. I tell about that in my book,
Pathological Positivity which by the way you ought to get a copy of. And if you
haven't yet, go to the link in the description down below. Get on over to
drPaulJenkins.com, there's a big orange button there you can click on
that. I'll send you a copy for free. You just pay for the shipping. In this book, I
told the story about how I was in a place where I was about to go through a
bankruptcy. Okay, what if that's your hard thing? It might be. We'll find in that
circumstance something that you're grateful for. Can you do that?
And that's hard. I'm not saying you have to be grateful for the thing that's
happening. I'm saying look around inside of that and see if you can find
something for which you are sincerely grateful. I found when I was going
through that experience myself. I was able to look around me from time to time
and notice, "You know what? I still have my family with me. I still have my health."
And I was grateful for that. Well, what if you don't have your family? What if you
don't have your health? Well, that's your hard thing.
So, look inside of that and see what you can be grateful for. An example that I've
shared with a lot of my clients has to do with cancer. When we lost my
sister-in-law, this is about four years ago she had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
It took her in two months just like that. She has a daughter, my niece who has
special needs got to live with us for a couple months while her mother passed.
And I am sincerely grateful that I had that opportunity to get to know her and
form a relationship with her. But I didn't really have before. I'm grateful
for that. Now, am i grateful for the cancer? Okay, that's harder. But that's
where I found it. Do you see what I'm talking about here?
You find in that difficult thing. I mentioned my bankruptcy. I have learned
so much from that experience. Now, it wasn't fun. I'm not saying that.
I wouldn't sign up for it. I'm not saying that either. I'm saying that it happened
and I can find things in that for which I am sincerely grateful. That's what I'm
challenging you to do. For the challenge to be clear, you're going to list 30
things today on your list for which you are sincerely grateful and at least half
of that list is about things that came from the hard stuff in your life the way
it is right now without changing anything. Are you in? Take on this
challenge seriously and you're going to notice some really important things
that'll set you up for becoming a more positive person in 3 days. You've got
it. Day one. Take it on. Be serious about this. Get
back here tomorrow to do day 2. Because I'm going to be here to help you with that.
We can be more positive together.