What is the secret for gratitude? Kris Krohn here with Limitless TV and we're
going to talk about learning how to maximize that gratitude for everything
that we have in our life.
Having been to Africa, Peru, Thailand, frankly some of the poorest places on
the planet, I gained a really deep appreciation for
what I have. And I don't know if you growing up had a mom and dad they're
like, eat all your vegetables, finish the food, don't you know there's people in
other countries that don't have food? Well I got that guilt trip growing up
and I think maybe you did too. And I want to share with you something that I did
not expect. Going to Africa and spending time with the Masai warriors in the
central part of Kenya where these people live in poop houses. Poop plus straw
equals a house. I'm talking about people that don't have any running water. I'm
talking about water to drink. So instead where they do end up drinking cow's
blood. That's one of their main sources as well as cow milk. In fact, when
they mix the blood with the milk it makes a yummy drink I guess.
I'm talking
about people that live such simple lives and yet in their, in their country, I did
not experience emotionally from these people what I sometimes do here in
America. I mean, we talk about $44,000 being the average median income and we
talked about what poverty level is and I get it. That having less is not a great
situation but we build the sadness into it. We build on this energy of
disadvantage and then pour and I'm angry at the rich people and all my
opportunities are gone and they have and I have not. Yet I go to these other poor
countries and they're not like the poor people of America. They have so much less
than us and I think everything changed for me when I sat down, I was delivering
a pile of goods in Africa on one of our humanitarian trips to, to the school and
after we awarded them all of these different school supplies. They came back
and brought a gift to me it was a tiny soccer ball that was made out of plastic
recycled bags strung together with twine. And when they presented to me the little
boy said, what we lack in resourcefulness we make up for in creativity.
These people have found a way not to tie their happiness to what they have. And all of a
sudden I found my gratitude spiking through the ceiling. Right now, you and I
we talk about how to be grateful, take your hand put
your heart and feel the miracle beating in there.
Can you fog a mere two?
We're breathing! Our heart is beating. Guess what? I bet you're not watching this
video naked.
Kinda funny if you were. Um, you have food likely in your belly from
breakfast or from lunch or dinner whenever you're watching this video. The
reality is we have food, you're probably watching this video not living outdoors,
you've got all of your basic elements covered. Guess what? you are amongst some
of the luckiest people on this planet. Whether you're happy about it,
whether you're grateful about it, well there's no amount of things I can give
you that will step you into gratitude because gratitude is a choice.
Confucius
says, it's not about having what you want. It's about wanting what you have. Imagine
a world where everything that you still want that has not happened
will only present itself if you can allow yourself to get into a space of
gratitude for what is right now here in this moment. So here's a, here's an
activity that I want to give you. I want to time you. I want to see how much
gratitude you got inside of you when this video is over take a pen and a
sheet of paper and I'm going to have you make and write a list of at least 100
things that you are grateful for.
And a list of a hundred is really going to
push you into going beyond the basics. I'm thankful for the food that I have and
the place that I live. It'd be great to start getting grateful for the insects
that are protecting our crops. How cool it be to become grateful for the oxygen,
the clean air that you have around you that you're able to breathe in right now.
This gratitude exercise I hope fulfills the whole reason why you came here and
I'm going to challenge you to do it.
Can you come up with a list of a hundred
things
that you're grateful for?
And that my friends is your challenge. Get
cranking on your list. Thank you so much for being here, watching this video. If
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