Building Gratitude

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

One of the hottest trends to come out of the self-help world over the last few years is gratitude. And it's no surprise, gratitude has been found to be one of the greatest indicators of overall well being. I'm usually pretty skeptical about things that get hyped quite as much as gratitude has been - I mean when you see the list of things that a gratitude practice can help with it's pretty easy to roll your eyes. I mean can gratitude really do all those things that people say it can?

Today we'll be exploring the mechanisms that make gratitude work - and also perhaps tempering some of the hype around it - then we'll be looking at ways we can find things to be grateful in our lives as well as looking at some ways that we can start a gratitude practice.

And I'll admit, this episode is a little less ADHD focused - but gratitude was something that was on mind, for reasons that I get into during the episode. And so even though this episode is a little less ADHD specific I still think everyone can get a lot out of it.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Gratitude is showing thanks and appreciation and it has a tremendous impact on our brains. Gratitude can help us release build our relationships, regulate stress, improve sleep quality, build self-esteem and make us happier.
One way we can practice gratitude is through mindfulness and seeing all the things in our lives that are going right. It's easy for us to latch onto the negative things that happen during our day. We'll miss all the things that went right because when things go according to plan they can often become invisible.
We can also practice gratitude by journaling or writing a letter to someone in our lives that has greatly impacted us.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:08.3	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:11.5	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:18.0	One of the hottest trends to come out of the self-help world over the last few years is
0:22.0	gratitude. And it's no surprise. Gratitude has been found to be one of the greatest indicators of
0:27.3	overall well-being. I'm usually pretty skeptical about these things that get hyped quite as much
0:32.1	as gratitude has been. I mean, when you see the list of things that a gratitude practice can help
0:36.8	with, it's pretty
0:37.6	easy to roll your eyes.
0:39.2	Can gratitude really do all those things people say it can?
0:42.4	Well, today we'll be exploring the mechanisms that make gratitude work, and perhaps tempering
0:47.5	some of the hype around it, because I'm going to be honest up front here, it's not going to
0:51.7	fix all of your problems, especially overnight. Then we'll
0:55.3	be looking at ways that we can find things to be grateful for in our lives, as well as looking at
0:59.7	some of the ways that we can start our own gratitude practice. And I'll admit, this episode is a little
1:04.9	less ADHD focused, but gratitude is something that was on my mind for reasons that I'll get
1:09.9	into during the episode.
1:11.5	So even though this episode is a little less ADHD specific, I think everyone can get a lot out of it.
1:17.2	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash gratitude.
1:24.3	And while we're on the topic of gratitude, I just wanted to give a quick shout out to thank my newest patrons, Tina, Eric, MJ, and Devin.
1:31.7	I really appreciate you supporting the podcast.
1:34.4	If you haven't checked it out yet, the Hacking Your ADHD Patreon page is now open and you can get some really cool perks, like bonus content, early access to episodes, and even some stickers.
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