Good morning. It's Brian Rose from London Real. This is the Daily Five. How to

survive and thrive in these crazy-ass times of crisis. Look, we got some serious lockdown going on here in London, but we're still

broadcasting I think it's super important that we get these messages out to the world so

I'm heading into the office and today I want to talk about something that gets a lot of

lip service that I don't think people understand and something that can change

your day right now could change your life and that is this concept of

gratitude now again a lot of people give it a lot of lip service these days, but gratitude is the essence of living a life of happiness, period.

You know, two people can look at the same exact event or

situation and come away with two different perspectives of that situation.

And so that means that you can choose how you feel or respond to anything that happens in your life.

Take for example this COVID-9 lockdown.

Now most of us are in lockdown working from home confined to spaces.

Now two different people can look at that differently.

One can say, I'm imprisoned, this sucks, I hate the world,

blah, blah, blah.

The other person can say, wow, this is a time for me to learn how to meditate. This is a time for me to write my book.

This is a time for, to test me to see how strong my relationships are.

And again, those two different people

will walk away with a completely different experience.

And it's all a way of you look at it in the mind.

Some call it reframing.

How can you reframe an experience to look at it from a positive

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