107: Gratitude has the ability to change EVERYTHING

This season can be especially hard.⁣<br />⁣<br />But there’s one thing I know to be true no matter what: Finding something to be grateful for always helps.⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />Listen now⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />What does being grateful entail?⁣<br />⁣<br />Grateful is a feeling and belief that there’s always something we can learn from even the most horrendous of situations.⁣<br />⁣<br />Personally, I know that to be true. That’s because the very hardest things in my life have come before my greatest growth, joy, and life lessons. ⁣<br />⁣<br />Here are some tools as we reflect on this year and look forward to the next.⁣<br />⁣<br />When the stinking thinking starts to creep in, pivot quickly to gratitude. It has a way of transforming our experiences, attitude, and self-perspective.⁣<br />⁣<br />When I can have compassion and gratitude towards the people that piss me off, I don’t go energetically bankrupt.⁣<br />⁣<br />Being in a state of gratitude can also shift your perception of reality.⁣<br />⁣<br />When held hand-in-hand with gratitude, moments of disappointment and defeat—the numbing out and shutting down—can be transformed into awareness, self-acceptance, and self-love. ⁣