Hi everyone.
Welcome back to Lavendaire.
Today is the last episode
in our Back to Basics series.
I've saved the most important thing for last: Gratitude.
Gratitude is a game-changer.
It's something that, if you can bring more gratitude into your life,
into your mind and space, then it will just make you happier.
It will make you feel more fulfilled.
It will help you truly appreciate everything that you have in your life, right in front
of you,
right now.
I know that, if you're in that stage where you're striving for the future
or you're trying to accomplish these goals–and yes, there's nothing wrong
with trying to accomplish things for the future.
But if you don't have gratitude
for everything that you have right now, then you're never gonna feel like you have enough.
Tony Robbins has this quote.
He says, "Success without gratitude is the biggest failure of all,"
and I love that quote because he's saying that even if you accomplish all these things,
even if you look successful on the outside, if you don't have gratitude with you every
day,
if you don't appreciate what you have in front of you, then you're never going to be truly
happy,
and you're always gonna be craving more.
You're going to be craving something else
because you don't feel like you have enough.
And I think that's a problem
that a lot of people have.
Even though they have a lot in their life.
You know,
we have internet, we have food, we have shelter, we have clothes to wear.
We have all these things and yet, we feel like we don't have enough or we're not good
enough.
We need more.
We need this or we need that, or we need to do this or we need to do that.
It's gonna feel like a never-ending cycle of getting more, more, more,
and you're never gonna truly feel fulfilled inside unless you learn
to cultivate gratitude in the everyday.Gratitude is something that will help
shift your perspective from blah to amazing.
With gratitude, you really change your world
because you open your eyes to see all the wonderful things that you already have in
your life
that are right in front of you.
You learn to appreciate each and every thing you have in your life,
and it makes your life feel more rich and more full.
You're going to feel that abundance in your life.
Once you feel that abundance, you're going to attract even more abundance into your life.
Once you start feeling grateful for the things in your life, you're going to find
you have more and more and more things to be grateful for.
It really is an expansion of the positivity, love, and joy in your life.
And gratitude is honestly all you need, because we really have enough in our lives.
We have everything we need, especially if you're watching this video and you have internet.
You're definitely not lacking.
And you might feel like you don't have enough,
you might feel like you're not where you want to be yet.
And I get it.
But trust me when I say:
Once you start bringing more gratitude into your life, you're gonna start feeling more
whole.
You're gonna start feeling a lot better in general and it's really gonna shift your perspective
into a more positive one.
It's gonna change your life for the better.
I highly encourage you guys to start cultivating more gratitude in your thoughts.
When you wake up, think about what you feel grateful for that day.
Maybe keep a gratitude journal where, at the end of the day, you write down
five things you're grateful for right now.
And it's helpful to be more creative
and be grateful for even the random details of your life.
Try to write a different thing each time
so that you don't just constantly write "I'm grateful for my friends, my family, my [whatever]."
Instead of writing the same things over and over again, start being more specific
on the things that you're grateful for, and then you're going to start
being more creative in finding things that you're grateful for.
And then you realize how much abundance and amazingness you have in your life.
This is what I've been doing in my Artist of Life Workbook.
I put a bunch of blank pages in here
just so I can write whatever I wanted, and I started turning it into a success, joy,
and gratitude journal where I will just keep track of all those positive things:
things I'm grateful for, things that bring me joy, and little achievements,
little victories that I could celebrate with myself.
That's what I would encourage you guys
to start doing, and why not start now?
If you're up for it, I challenge you
to write in the comments below five things that you're grateful for.
Be creative and be specific
on five things that you're truly, truly grateful for.
And once you're done writing those five things,
feel free to write more if you want.
But take the time to really sit and feel that gratitude
with each and every thing.
Feel that appreciation.
Feel that abundance that you have in your life.
The more gratitude you practice, the more you're going to feel grateful every day,
and your life is going to feel better.
You're going to feel better.
You're going to be happier.
So I hope you do this challenge because gratitude is a simple thing
but it's something that we forget to do sometimes.
Once you can do it more, it's really easy.
It will just snowball into a better and better life for you.
I hope you liked today's video.
This was the last piece of the Back to Basics series . If you haven't watched the other
videos,
I highly encourage you to watch them.
Click that card in the upper right corner.
Have a beautiful day.
See you next time.
Bye!