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Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio.

And the topic I want to share with you today is called gratitude and mental health.

This is based on a devotional that I get sent to me every Sunday. And this article was one of the

things in it. It's called Words of Life. And it's called gratitude fuels hope. And it got me thinking,

because we talk a lot about gratitude in the podcast and my mindset classes I have. I talk about

using gratitude journals and making gratitude a discipline, you know, something that you really

work on and cultivate. And a lot of people are just not grateful. And usually they're also

miserable. A lot of the times, there's a connection, it seems, between pessimists and ungrateful people.

It's like very often, they're one and the same, entitled people and ungrateful people. And so they've

actually done some research on it. And that's why I thought

this was interesting. This is by Dr. Don Colbert. So I was taking some notes and some excerpts. And sure

enough, I'm going to share some of this with you. And I know some of you are very grateful. And you

have bought into the cultivation of gratitude. And many of our clients

use gratitude journals and they fill them out in the morning as part of their morning mindset routine.

I talk about this in a couple of my books as well. And it's just something that you want to

consistently do because life continues to remind you sometimes that negativity bias that we have on our brain of what's not good enough,

of what you don't have, of what's not right. And you got to remember that whatever you focus on

in your life, and this is a principle, gross, it gets bigger. So, and there are a lot of applications to this. If you're

focusing on the things you can control, you become more powerful, more in charge. If you're

focusing more on the things you can't do anything about, for instance, you become more passive,

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