Waking Up to Gratitude

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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I woke up this morning with an incredible zest to expand my feeling of gratefulness. Well, there is not so much to expand as to recognize all the things that I am grateful for but haven’t thought about lately. That’s the thing about living in a fast-paced world where our daily activities, big and small, fly by and are quickly forgotten. It’s always been that way. There is nothing new in the world. That got me thinking about one of my favorite quotes — “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” —Robert Brault As a no regrets kind of guy, I admit to sometimes not living in gratitude. Thankfully, the wisdom of others is always making sure I remember what is important— Here are a few of my favorites. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”—Frank A. Clark “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” —Eckhart Tolle “Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.” —Estonian Proverb “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”—William Faulkner “Enough is a feast.”—Buddhist Proverb “When you are grateful, fear disappears, and abundance appears.”—Anthony Robbins “When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”—Vietnamese Proverb “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”—William Arthur Ward “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.”—Cicero “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”—Robert Brault Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are you? Happy, happy, happy, happy Friday. Man, I just love getting to the weekend and going, what am I gonna do? I don't have anything to do.
0:21.0	Is that a great weekend when you have nothing to do?
0:24.0	Unless you can't figure out something to do, and I can always run something to do.
0:29.0	So gratitude, do you wake up with gratitude in the morning? Let's talk about that a little bit today.
0:33.0	Some ideas to get you there, get you feeling that way. So true gratitude about what's going on in your life, if you don't really appreciate it,
0:39.0	the gratitude what you have, no matter how good or bad it is, yes, even the bad. Thank you for the lesson.
0:44.0	If you don't have gratitude, why would you expect anything else? So we won't gratitude and everything that we do, we'll chat about that today.
0:49.0	It's a daily boost from motivation to move.com every single day. For the past 16 years, I have walked in here, and I have laid out this little thing.
0:59.0	I've said a lot, give a lot of advice, have a lot of people, made a lot of mistakes along the way, but you know what?
1:03.0	We just keep on going, we do what we do. The basic mission is this. Forget everything you see out there, forget what anybody has told you,
1:10.0	whatever uplifting unicorn or rainbow stuff, and I love that stuff too, man, I mean, do it like crazy.
1:14.0	But at the same time, I just really am interested in what works. That's it.
1:19.0	And I understand that that's what this shows about, because what works is that you get up every single day,
1:24.0	you try something, you try to get it to work for yourself, and you make adjustments to you get there.
1:28.0	And this show is designed to keep you going there every single day, so you'll do that. It's not a magic cure for anything.
1:33.0	That's never going to happen. That's, or too realistic about that around here.
1:38.0	My name is Scott Smith, founder, chief motivating officer here at MotivationToMove.com. I'm happy you're here today.
1:43.0	A little bit of scratchy voice today. I've been feeling scratchy the last couple of days, and maybe I'm talking too much or something here.
1:49.0	And I walked out in the living room, came out of my studio here, and my wife said, I'm going to get a COVID test.
1:57.0	I have a headache in my temperatures of 102.
2:01.0	Oh, goodness. I took my temperature right away. It's still 90.
2:04.0	Is it 97.8? Is that what it is? It's perfect.
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