How To Destroy Misery In 7 Days With One Morning Habit | Lewis Howes

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11You have probably heard me talk about this over and over again. You might think this is like a broken record. You might have heard me say gratitude or have me talk about gratitude in my books. It is something that I live by. And here's why. You can't be grateful and miserable at the same time. You just can't. It's almost impossible to be grateful and miserable or grateful and angry or grateful and upset at the same time. You can only hold one of those in your hand at that moment. Now, it doesn't mean you might feel grateful for a moment and then you switch into sadness, but it's so hard to be grateful and miserable at the same exact moment.

0:49So the more you focus on gratitude, the more abundant you'll feel. Happy people make gratitude a practice, not a reaction to something. They look for what's working even on the hard days, even when they're struggling, even when things are not working their way. They look for what's working because when you train your mind to recognize the good, you create more of it. Gratitude shifts your focus from what's missing to what is actually in your life, what's present, what is fueling you, something in your environment, someone in your life that's bringing you joy. Gratitude shifts your focus from what is missing in your life to what is present.

1:29And when you focus on what is present, the good, more good will start to happen. I always say that gratitude and generosity are the gateway to abundance. And when you lean into being generous with your time, with your attention, with your words of affirmation to people, with your resources, more good things, more joy, more happiness will come to you. Every morning, I start my day with gratitude. I wake up and I say, thank you, God, for another day. Thank you for another day of life. Because 150 ,000 people die every single day, and I'm not one of them. Thank you, God, for another moment. Thank you, God, for another opportunity to see the people I love.

2:09Thank you, God, for another opportunity to express myself to be artistic, creative, to be loving, to be generous. Thank you, God, for the blessings that I get to receive today. Thank you, God, for getting to live this long with a healthy body and a conscious mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Man, you wake up every day and you start praising the things that you're grateful for. You start intentionally speaking those things. You create more of those things in your life. It's just how things work. And it is so powerful. When you start to do this, everything starts to shift. You will be one of the happiest people you know if you do this every single day.

2:51And every night, my wife Martha and I share three things that we are grateful for and appreciate from that day with each other. We talk about it and we reflect on them. So we start the day in gratitude and appreciation and we end the day in gratitude and appreciation. And throughout the day, I'm stringing those two things together. I'm tying them together and pulling the morning and the evening together and connecting them. And the more of a bridge of gratitude I have from morning to night, and you repeat that bridge every single day and night, it compounds over time. It is so powerful. You will be so happy if you do these simple acts.

3:33The simple practice breaks through the emotional armor that so many people carry, so many people hold onto. It's the weight that you can let go, let yourself be, and let yourself actually be happy because you deserve it. An action step for you is to write down three things that you're grateful for every day for the next seven days. That's it. Just keep it simple. Just write them down. What are three things every day that you're grateful for? You will notice your mind will shift, your heart will shift, your energy will shift, and you'll start to see opportunities of why life is beautiful, even when there's challenge and even when there's stress and even when there's heartbreak and all these unfortunate things that happen.

4:18But we have an opportunity to create happiness. And it starts with gratitude.

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