How to Practice Gratitude Daily

Lately, you’ve been questioning if your blood, sweat, and tears are worth all the hard work building your business. Sometimes it feels too overwhelming - like nothing you ever do is good enough. 

I see you. I've been there too. I was always paying attention to the bad things that happened to me. 

But over the course of my entrepreneurial journey, I’ve learned a lot about one skill in particular that has the power to transform your results. It’s one that I didn’t really think was that important until I started practicing it myself. 

Yes, I’m talking about gratitude. I have been writing a gratitude list every single day for the past +4 years and it has changed my life profoundly.  

If you constantly catch yourself complaining and not being able to appreciate anything in your life, you will continue to be trapped in a toxic and negative cycle.

So, how can you start a gratitude practice to make your life and business better? 

Here are some tips to help your gratitude muscle become stronger:

1. Practice turning complaints into gratitude statements

When you feel like complaining, switch channels and instead find reasons why you should be grateful for this situation. This habit will help you see every situation through the lens of gratitude, and not lack or negativity. It will change your life! 

Examples:

Lost a business? Be grateful for the opportunity to start over. 

Someone is rude to you? Be grateful that they are showing you a good example of who you don’t want to be.

2. Make it a habit of stopping to be grateful multiple times a day

Train your brain to be more thankful. Make it a habit to have “gratitude moments”—specific times during the day when you pause and reflect about what makes you feel grateful.

Here are a few ideas: 

◻ When you wake up

◻ When you leave the house

◻ When you sit down for a meal)

◻ Before going to bed

Watch my video here to see what I mean!

3. Tune in to the present moment - there is always something to be grateful for! 

The past is gone and the future doesn’t exist. Pause, bring attention to your breath and find one thing that you see, smell, feel or hear right now. Take time to tune in with that and appreciate it. Let your senses spark your gratitude! There’s always something to be appreciative of.

When you start practicing gratitude, you conquer your fears and become a better person. You begin to attract positive energy around you.

Learn To Flex Your Gratitude Muscle!  

I'd love to hear from this newsletter's readers: What is limiting you from practicing gratitude each and every day?

Also read:

13 Things I’ve Learned Writing 1,024 Gratitude Lists

How An Attitude of Gratitude Changed My Life

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Chris Winfield is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Super Connector Media, an award-winning online education & training company and one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Specializing in producing life-changing live events and creating business and personal transformation through their online training and coaching programs. In the last two years alone, over 20,000 business owners, experts, doctors, and coaches have learned how to grow their businesses and become "The Recognized Expert" in their industry by leveraging Super Connector Media's systems and platforms.

Chris has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NBC’s Today Show, USA Today, ABC News, Fast Company, Fox Extra, Forbes, and over 200 other media outlets. Chris is also a contributor for INC. and host of a show for Entrepreneur Magazine. His writings have also appeared in Business Insider, TIME, Buffer, and other top-tier publications. Chris has shown clients – including people from companies like Disney, Bai Brands ($1.8 billion exit), Virgin, Intuit, Thomson Reuters, Conde Nast, Cali’Flour Foods, and countless high-profile entrepreneurs & authors – how to leverage their connections with the media and influencers for credibility, authority & profit.