Hey, this is John Gordon. In the spirit of Thanksgiving week, I want to share with you the power of gratitude and how it has changed my life.

You see a number of years ago in 2001, at the peak of my misery and

I started to take a walk of gratitude. I called it a thank you walk,

and every day I would walk,

and I would just say what I was thankful for.

Why did I do that?

Well, I found research that says, you can't be stressed and thankful at the same time and I was dealing with a lot of stress. So each day I would just walk and practice gratitude. I would start with the small things. I'm thankful that I can walk. I'm thankful for this ground that I could walk on. I'm thankful for the trees and the bushes over there. I'm thankful for my life. I'm thankful for my health. I would say the big things. I'm thankful for my life. I'm thankful for my health. I would say the big things. I'm

thankful for my family and my kids and this work that I get to do. And the more I

would do this and practice gratitude, what I was doing was flooding my brain and body with these

positive emotions and neurotransmitters that uplift me rather than the stress hormones that

slowly drain and kill me. You can't be stressed and thankful at the same time if you're feeling blessed you won't be stressed.

And so by doing this I'm flooding my body and brain with these emotions, these

hormones, these neurotransmitters that make me feel great that allow me to take on the day

that give me resilience and grit to really take on the challenges in the world because we are dealing with a lot of

negativity, a lot of stress, a lot of adversity. And so gratitude was a great way that I

started to turn my whole state of being around.

How you see the world determines the world that you see.

And when you start to see the world through the lens of gratitude and you start to appreciate what

happens is you elevate, you elevate your mood, you elevate your performance, you

elevate the people around you when you bring this gratitude to your life.

I gotta tell you it changed me from the inside out.

Not overnight, it took a while, but over time it had a huge impact on me.

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