Welcome to day 2. How to increase positivity in 3 days. Before we get
into today's material, how did it go for day 1? I gave you a challenge to do
what I call a gratitude power-up really, to identify 30 things furniture
sincerely grateful and half of those things came from your hard list. How did
it go? I hope you go share what you learned from that in the comments on the
video or going over to Instagram where we've got a discussion going on there as
well. Let's interact with each other in support and share our stories as we move
forward. I hope you had a good experience with that. If you haven't done it yet,
please take it on. Take it on. Be serious about this because these things will
increase your positivity in 3 days. But only if you actually do it. That's
the disclaimer. Let's get into day 2. Our objective for day 2 is to use the
energy generated from the gratitude of day one to upgrade our life. You might
remember that I mentioned there are 2 important components to positivity.
There's evaluation which we talked about a little bit yesterday and which is
supported by the gratitude. And then there is creation.
Now, we're talking about creation of what is to be. And that doesn't exist yet
because we haven't created it yet. Connect for a minute with your power to
create what is to be. In fact, that leads us right into the mantra for day 2. "I
am a powerful creator". Say that a few times and connect with the power of what
you're saying. You don't know what's coming but you've got something to do
with it. And as you start to connect with your power as a creator, you're going to
learn some really powerful and important things. Here's a little
activity that I do sometimes. When I'm doing a keynote or a training about
positivity, what if I were to give you this assignment to go out there and
spend a half-hour. We'll time you. Spend a half-hour. See if you can use your
creative power to somehow make your life worse. Please don't do that. That's not
the challenge for today. But it's interesting to notice that even though
you would never do that on purpose, I mean, how quickly your mind comes up with
half a dozen ways you could pull that off. And it wouldn't even take a half
hour, would it? You've got to connect with the power that you have to create a mess.
And actually this is good news. Because if you can make a mess, what else might
you be able to make? That leads us into our challenge for today. As you connect
with your power as a creator of your life, your challenge for day 2 is to
intentionally create 3 upgrades to your life today. What if that were really
possible? Now, it is possible and that's why I'm giving it to you as a challenge
for today. You pick some aspect of your life. And you can do this all in the same
area or you can spread it across multiple different areas of your life.
Whether it be finances or health or relationships or your psychological
well-being and happiness. Whatever it is. You can create an upgrade. Here's how
this is going to work: Let's say that you pick your health, okay? Today is going to end
by the way. It's not going to go on forever and ever. I don't know if you're watching
this video in the morning or in the afternoon or in the evening. It doesn't
matter. You've got a little bit of day left. And you can make an upgrade to your
life before it's over. Health, pick that as an example. What could you do? You
think of something right now that you could do
before this dance to improve your health. Either a little or a lot, doesn't matter.
As long as you're going in the positive direction, you're on track. It might be
that you make a wiser food choice. It might be that you choose to drink water
instead of that soda. It might be that you choose to do 5 push-ups or
sit-ups before you go to bed. You pick something. I'm not telling you what to do.
Just pick something and that would be an example of upgrading that area of your
life. What about finances? What if you're like me and you were right in the middle
of a bankruptcy? I was at one point. I told you that story before. What can you
do to improve it? It's a good question. Answer it and do it before you go to bed.
It might be that you decide to start a new budget program. There's one that my
wife and I use all the time. It's called YNAB for You Need A Budget. Y-N-A-B. YNAB, you
need a budget. We just pulled that up and we put our information in there and we
improved our situation. You could do that. You could take the money that's in your
pocket right now and put it into an emergency savings fund. There's so many
things that you can do. Pick something. I don't care what you pick. Find 3
things that you could do to improve some aspect of your life. What if it's a
relationship? Here, try this right now. You take the device you're watching
this video on. If it's your phone or your mobile handheld device or a tablet, go
into your texting app. Think of someone who's important to you and send them a
text that says this: "My life is better because you're in it." It's going to blow
them away a little bit. You get some interesting responses too. But that's an
example of how you can upgrade a relationship. Pick 3. Pick 3,
commit to do it before you go to bed. Before this day is over, you upgrade your
life in at least 3 areas. Are you in? Let's do this. There you go. Day 2.
Day 2. Done. Let's do this thing. Share these videos, would you? To someone
else would like to increase their positivity. I would like to see if we
could start a little wave of positivity building through the world. I'll be back
tomorrow one more day on our 3 day challenge. I'll see you then.