Friday Faith Foundations - You Need Gratitude to Succeed

<h2>You've heard that you need gratitude to succeed and you've heard there are benefits to gratitude, but you don't know how to start a gratitude practice.</h2> <p>Do you need gratitude to succeed? There are many benefits of gratitude. Maybe a gratitude practice won't make or break your business, but when you start a gratitude practice you will achieve more because you will be happier.</p> <p><a href= "https://therobyngraham.com/gratitude-and-entrepreneurship/">Gratitude plays an important role in entrepreneurship</a> and life.</p> <h3>Why do you need to start a gratitude practice?</h3> <p>There are many benefits of gratitude. Gratitude shifts your perspective to what is going well instead of what could go wrong.</p> <p>You can think of gratitude as a natural anti-depressant because <a href= "https://www.focusforhealth.org/gratitude-our-bodies-natural-anti-depressant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gratitude releases dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and norepinephrine, positive neurochemicals in the brain.</a></p> <p>When you feel like you haven’t accomplished enough, or haven’t reached your goals, make a list of what you are grateful for – it could be what you’ve already accomplished, the other people involved with your work, the tools you have to work with, the canceled meeting that gave you an extra hour of focus time, etc.</p> <h3>The brain is miraculous</h3> <p>Gratitude helps stimulate positive neuropathways in the brain. God created the brain so intricately and He gives us the authority to transform our minds. The more you stimulate the positive neuropathways, the more automatic positive thinking will become. More positive thinking, more happiness. The higher your happiness levels are, the more productive you are, which leads to more success.</p> <p>In Romans 12:2 Paul tells us, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing, and perfect will."</p> <p>One of the biggest benefits of