Kevin Ray Ward (founder of Yes Masters Real Estate Success Training) delivers a short, informal YouTube message centered on gratitude timed for Thanksgiving. He gives two primary takeaways: (1) make gratitude a daily habit — he reports keeping a gratitude journal since October 10, 2011 and writing at least five gratitudes each morning — and (2) actively give thanks to people (express gratitude aloud/written, not just feel it). The talk closes with a personal thank-you to viewers and a call to engage (like/share/comment).
Questions this video answers
October 10, 2011.
At least five gratitudes every day.
November 23, 2017.
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Hi there, it's Kevin Ward, the founder of yes Masters Real Estate Success Training, helping you get more yeses and more successes in your business and in your life. And the main thing I want to do in this video is right here, is I just want to wish all of you, especially in the United States, a very happy Thanksgiving. For those of you that are in Canada or anywhere else, whenever your Thanksgiving was, I hope you had a happy one or have a happy one coming up. So I wanted to talk about, just briefly, I wanted to talk about gratitude because that's what this week is all about, right? It's about being grateful. It's about giving thanks. And how important is that and how valuable is it in our lives. And it is very, very, very important. In fact, I'm going to give you two things that I think just two little just takeaways that I want you to have from this video. Number one is that gratitude should be a part of your lifestyle every single day. Every single day should be something you do every day. And one of the things that I have done for now, years since, actually since October 10th of 2011, is I have a journal that I write in every single day. And every single day, I write at least five gratitudes every day. In other words, every morning, I write five things I'm grateful for that day. It may be some things are the same every day, but typically I tend to float it around. I look around, what am I grateful for today? And whenever you do that, you just start your day from a place of gratitude, which helps you focus on things that you have in your life that are right, things that you have in your life that are good things, abundance that you have in your life. And so when you focus on abundance, when you focus on what you already have, you're literally saying to the universe, thank you, I want more, I can handle more. And it's not a greed thing, it's not a selfishness thing. It's simply an openness to God, to the universe or to the world around you of saying, I appreciate the fact that the universe or God is working in my favor. So having just an attitude of gratitude is life changing. And they've done it. They've done studies that show the people that, that are, that do this, have a habit of expressing gratitude for stuff on a daily basis tend to be more successful, they tend to achieve more and so forth. So that's number one, number one attitude of gratitude. And the best way to do that is start your day by writing down things that you are grateful for. Every day. Number two, and this is such an important distinction, and that is it is not enough just to be thankful when it involves people. That is, instead of being thankful, is giving thanks. In other words, I can feel grateful somebody did something for me. I'm so grateful. But it doesn't really mean anything to them until I express that gratitude to them. And that's why I love the holiday called Thanksgiving. It's not thanks feeling, it's not feeling thankful or being grateful. It's giving thanks. It is an active. It is an active action, right? It's proactive. I am actually taking the overt action of expressing my gratitude to someone for something. So I want to challenge you on this, that you spend some time this week actually giving thanks, giving thanks to God, giving thanks to the universe, giving thanks to your family, giving thanks to your friends, to your clients, to your customers. Just not just feeling it, but letting them know what an amazing gift it is. That when you give thank you thanks, you are literally, your appreciation is truly a gift that blesses other people. So hopefully for your entire year, gratitude is a way of life. But especially this week, I want you to focus not only on feeling the gratitude and being grateful, but actually taking the time to tell some people, to tell some folks that are important to you how much you appreciate them, who they are and what they mean to you. Do it. It will change your life. So I just want to tell you that I am grateful for you. I'm grateful for you watching this video. I'm grateful for you if you're one of my subscribers on my YouTube channel or on my blog or one of my coaching members or somebody who gets my emails, wherever, whoever, whatever our relationship is, it means something to me. It's special to me. And I really, really want you to know how much I appreciate you and appreciate our relationship. I can do anything for you. Let me know. And until then, happy Thanksgiving. If you like the post, make sure the video, give it a thumbs up, share it, comment, comment Happy Thanksgiving and I'll see you on the next.
