Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

You have probably heard me talk about this over and over again.

You might think this is like a broken record.

You might have heard me say gratitude or have me talk about gratitude in my books.

It is something that I live

by. And here's why. You can't be grateful and miserable at the same time. You just can't. It's almost

impossible to be grateful and miserable or grateful and angry or grateful and upset at the same time.

You can only hold one of those in your hand at that moment.

Now, it doesn't mean you might feel grateful for a moment and then you switch into sadness,

but it's so hard to be grateful and miserable at the same exact moment.

So the more you focus on gratitude, the more abundant you'll feel.

Happy people make gratitude a practice, not a reaction to something.

They look for what's working even on the hard days, even when they're struggling,

even when things are not working their way.

They look for what's working.

Because when you train your mind to recognize the good, you create more of it.

Gratitude shifts your focus from what's missing to what is actually in your life, what's present, what is fueling you,

something in your environment, someone in your life that's bringing you joy.

Gratitude shifts your focus from what is missing in your life to what is present.

And when you focus on what is present, the good, more good will start to happen.

I always say that gratitude and generosity are the gateway to abundance.

And when you lean into being generous with your time, with your attention, with your words of affirmation

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