Mini: Why You need a Gratitude Journal / Spartan Way 048
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
When life gets busy and tough, we can sometimes focus on what we don’t have. Instead, we need to be grateful for everything we have, including the “obstacles” which are opportunities in hiding.
Start writing down what you are grateful for in a gratitude journal. Start your day with a gratitude journal. Tony Robbins inspired me to do this around 2001.
LESSONS:
Write down 3 things you are grateful for, including the most simple things such as seeing the sun or the moon.
Be grateful for everything, including the challenges that you’ve been stressing over.
Make your gratitude journal part of your core morning ritual.
Write in your journal every day, 7 days a week. It only takes 2 minutes MAX!
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Spartans, you ever catch yourself focusing on all the things you don't have? |
| 0:05.0 | Spartans, welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host, |
| 0:13.0 | Zach Evernesh coming to you from beautiful Pittsfield, Vermont, |
| 0:16.0 | part of the Spartan Up Podcast family. |
| 0:19.0 | Now in this episode, I want to talk to you about something that I used to do about 20 years ago, |
| 0:25.6 | then I kind of did a little bit, stopped a little bit, and I've recently gotten back to it and it's |
| 0:29.8 | been very powerful. That is the use of a gratitude journal. Now I'm going to take you back in time |
| 0:36.2 | to where I first learned about it and then I'll bring you to how I started getting back to it again |
| 0:41.1 | and how you could apply it to your life for just more success |
| 0:46.2 | in everything you do. |
| 0:48.0 | So in my early 20s, about 24-25, I was a third year school teacher I was a big fan of Tony Robbins I had |
| 0:58.4 | read his book Awaken the Giant Within and I saw that he was coming to New Jersey |
| 1:02.2 | I immediately looked up the seminar. I saw the prices and I took my entire two-week paycheck and purchased the VIP front row seating. |
| 1:13.7 | The thing that hit home most of me |
| 1:15.4 | was when he spoke about his use of gratitude |
| 1:19.6 | and he became grateful. |
| 1:21.6 | He said this was the pivotal moment of his life when he was grateful for the |
| 1:26.5 | little things his eyes that he could see the ocean with his legs that were |
| 1:31.9 | allowing him to go running the fork that he had to eat |
| 1:36.1 | whatever TV dinners he was making because this was a time where he was |
| 1:40.1 | depressed he was overweight he was trying to get his was and he just couldn't. So he said I started becoming grateful for everything I have |
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