ITL060 : Choosing to Be Grateful
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2012
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, a listener writes in with the question: How do you apply the principle of “Today I choose to be happy”?
Andy’s simple answer is:
· No one wants to follow a grouch
· You have to become someone whom others want to follow
· Choose to be grateful
· Most people exist in life without anyone telling them how great they are
· Learn how to vocalize the things we are grateful for having in our lives
For those who think that living life this way may be hokey, Andy comments:
· What kind of life do you want to lead?
· What kind of mood do you want to establish in your house?
· What kind of aura do you want around you as you interact with others outside of your home?
· If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, then you’re doing something wrong, because everyone else is not living a life filled with extraordinary results
· If you treat people the way that you would like to be treated, most people will live up to your expectation, so treat them well
· Let others know what you expect of them, and how excited you are to be interacting with them
· The one thing more powerful than telling someone how great they are is telling their kids how great their parents are in front of them
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Questions for Listeners
· How are you going to implement “choosing to be happy by choosing to be grateful” in your life?
o Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
o E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
Twitter.com/AndyAndrews
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:12.3 | Now here's your host, Andy Trob. |
| 0:15.2 | Well, hello, everyone. I am your host, Andy Trob. You can call me AT. |
| 0:18.4 | And I want to welcome you again to In the Loop where Andy Andrews shares powerful yet simple principles that once applied will change your life forever. |
| 0:25.8 | On today's show, we're going to talk about one of Andy's most common principles that he teaches on that people often still struggle to implement. |
| 0:33.2 | So let me welcome again your friend in mind, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:36.0 | A.T. How are you doing? |
| 0:37.4 | I am wonderful. And I'm excited to talk about this because it's like the most basic principle maybe that you teach, and yet we still get questions about it. And I get people in my life, and I mention the principal, and they go, that's not true. What is it? What? Okay, here we go. Ready? |
| 0:56.4 | This is from Doug, one of our listeners. |
| 0:57.8 | Again, a lot of listener feedback. |
| 0:58.5 | This is from Doug. |
| 1:01.7 | This is the shortest email we've ever gotten. |
| 1:06.6 | It's in your book, the final summit, you state that, quote, today I choose to be happy, |
| 1:09.9 | unquote, as one of the single most powerful tools and leadership. |
| 1:11.9 | Can you please help me understand this like and again i'm not laughing at dug but i'm just it's like the most to me it's really |
| 1:20.4 | simple but i get people literally like you can't do that okay or. Now, let me ask you this. |
| 1:33.6 | I wonder, Doug, is he, well, we've got to take what he wrote because he said, can you help me? |
| 1:35.0 | His question is, today I choose to be happy. |
| 1:37.8 | Can you help me understand this? |
| 1:39.1 | But he said he wants to understand why it's a principle of leadership. |
| 1:42.9 | Yeah, it's one of the single most |
| 1:44.4 | powerful tools in leadership. So maybe we can keep it to that. But I'm going to expand |
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