Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Good morning. Do you know what your brain is not designed to do? It is not designed to make you happy. I know this might be alarming to you,

but your brain has only one primary responsibility to keep you alive. Thus, your brain is

constantly on the lookout for danger and attack warnings. Your brain is programmed specifically to seek out the negative.

Now, this is a problem if you desire things like love and prosperity and happiness. Those

things are beyond what the brain cares about. Left unguided, as most do, your brain will

stew in the negative all day, every day of your life.

The conundrum is this. What you think about comes about. Where your attention goes, energy flows,

thus goes the direction of your life. So here is my challenge for you. Of the many insights that are

shared in the compound effect, the one I'm repeatedly told has made a profound difference in the

lives of many, is the story about the Thanksgiving journey. I want you to take that challenge.

I want you to think of an area of your life that you're having some difficulty in, and it's an

area you also want to improve. For the next, just 21 days, take three minutes at the end of the day and write down

something about that problematic situation that you appreciate. What's good? And what are you

grateful for? This could be, let's say, a confrontational coworker at the office or your job as a whole or maybe a troubled marriage.

Anything or anyone that frustrates you or negatively affects you.

Here's what I can promise you.

When you change how you look at a situation, the situation changes.

So who's up for this challenge? Come on, just reading this and thinking about it won't help you.

As Jonathan Van Gogh said, knowing is not enough we must apply. Ideas without implementation

are useless. Ideas executed have the power to change the world,

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