And I mean, there's so much research now on gratitude and how powerful it is in changing our state.

It's one of the most powerful emotions to anchor you into the present moment.

The most powerful is gratitude because you can't be anywhere else when you're saying what you're grateful for.

You have to be here.

My name is Melanie Whitney, and you are listening to The Future.

Melanie, what do you want to talk about?

I would actually really like to talk about this notion of that I've been seeing a lot this year in my coaching is that I don't think people understand how important and vital it is to be able to emotionally

regulate yourself to really get to the places you want to go or to have the experiences you want

to have. So emotional

regulation is something I've noticed just people are not like, oh, sign me up. It's like, it's

something a lot of people learn in therapy. And I think a lot of people are more open now to therapy.

But what I just realized this year while I was doing the coaching is that people come to me for the communication piece.

They're like, yeah, I want to learn how to be a better communicator. But then what they don't realize

is really what needs to, quote unquote, be fixed is the story that they have about X, Y, and Z in their

mind. So it's all about your thought creates that emotion. So the story you

have in your head, the thought you're having creates the emotion. And that is the very emotion that's

going to dictate your behavior. And guess what? Your behaviors that are repeated are going to create

your life. And so it's been such a small, tiny little formula that I've just been honing in on

with my coaching clients and, you know,

different workshops and what have you. And it's so simple, but it's finally simple enough for I

think people to understand. Because I think before the way I was doing it was too many steps for

people. It was too much. So I just realized that a lot of us struggle with emotional regulation and we project that job onto the other person.

...