161: This Happiness-Boosting Habit Might Even Beat Gratitude

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Have you ever done that Thanksgiving tradition where everyone goes around the table and lists the things they’re grateful for? No matter what time of the year it is, or if you even celebrate Thanksgiving, this step-by-step practice can be even more powerful than gratitude. In fact, make this a habit and I guarantee all your relationships will get stronger, fast. What you appreciate, appreciates. @MarieForleo

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0:00.0	What's up party people? I'm Marie Forlejo and for the last 20 years I've helped
0:06.5	millions of people transform their businesses and lives. If you're ready to make
0:11.0	the difference you were born to make,
0:13.2	get ready because this is the Marie Forleo Podcast.
0:19.1	Now this week here in the US,
0:21.0	we are celebrating one of my favorite holidays,
0:24.2	Thanksgiving.
0:25.1	Come on guys, can we hear it for some Thanksgiving?
0:28.8	Now here's the deal.
0:30.0	I love this holiday because it's not about material gifts it's about friends
0:34.4	it's about family and connection and food glorious food
0:39.5	do you guys know how much I love to eat I I love to eat. Now, as you may know, a typical practice is that people sit around the Thanksgiving dinner table and they often take turns sharing what they're grateful for.
0:51.0	Well, this season, I have got something new for you to try and
0:55.0	here's what's great. It's something that you can do all year long so
0:59.3	instead of saying what we're grateful for what we we're going to do is say what we appreciate.
1:06.1	Now you might be thinking, hold up Marie, are those really the same thing?
1:10.6	And my response to you is, not really. So for our purposes I want you to think
1:14.6	about gratitude as the quality of being thankful. Now most of the time when we
1:19.4	talk about things that we're grateful for we're referring to things we have in our life, like, I don't know, I'm
1:25.8	grateful for my job, or I'm grateful for my husband. Now there's nothing wrong with that.
1:30.5	Gratitude is a very transformative force but appreciation is
1:35.2	different it's about recognizing something great in someone else and
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