A short motivational talk by Brian Tracy urging listeners to cultivate a daily ‘attitude of gratitude.’ He argues that regularly listing and expressing gratitude improves personality, happiness, self-esteem, relationships, and perspective—even during difficulties—and offers categories (body, people, possessions, experiences, opportunities) to guide reflection. The clip ends with a usual YouTube call-to-action (like/subscribe).
For you to become a truly excellent person, you must develop the habit of practicing an attitude of gratitude in every part of your life. The habit of feeling and expressing gratitude, of saying thank you to people and thank you to life in general for all of the things in your life that you should be grateful for, has a wonderful effect on your personality. An attitude of gratitude makes you a warmer, friendlier and more genial person. An attitude of gratitude causes you to be more sensitive and aware of people around you and your environment. An attitude of gratitude gives you a great sense of happiness and inner satisfaction. The more gratitude you have, the more gratitude you express. The better and more positive is your personality. The higher will be your self esteem and the more popular and liked you will be by all the people around you. Even in the midst of the greatest difficulties you will experience, you can find things for which you are truly grateful. In fact, if you take a piece of paper and begin to write down the parts of your life for which you should be grateful, you will be amazed at how many items appear on your list. Think about your physical body. No matter what your condition, you could be grateful for all of your senses, for the miracles of sight and sound and touch and taste and smell and feeling. You could be thankful for the functioning of your body and for the health of your limbs. You could be grateful for the incredible gift of the life that you have lived up until now and the great life that lies ahead of you. Just sitting alone in your room, thinking about your current blessings and can give you a page full of reasons to be truly grateful. Look around you at your personal life. When you begin making a list of every person in your life and the good qualities and actions of those people, you cannot help but be grateful. Think of every material item in your world. Your home, your car, your clothes and other possessions. And you will not know where to stop. Just thinking about the health and well being of the people you care about. Your spouse and your children. Children and friends and the qualities of their personalities will make up a list that goes on and on and on. Think of the wonderful experiences you've had in the past, the lessons you've learned, the books you've read, the movies you've seen, the songs you've heard, and the foods you've eaten. Think of the places that you have visited and the experiences that you have had in your travels and work. Look back over the years that have passed and look at the years ahead. Think about the opportunities you have lying ahead of you and you will be amazed at how many things you have in your life for which you can be truly grateful. Thank you for viewing this video on Developing an attitude of gratitude if you enjoyed this video, please press the like button below and click on the link on the screen to subscribe to my channel.
