The video blends a guided gratitude meditation by Oprah Winfrey with motivational commentary from Evan Carmichael and an additional speaker. Oprah leads viewers through a breathing exercise, encouraging them to close their eyes, focus on their breath, and repeatedly say "Thank you" as a prayer for the day, emphasizing the fleeting nature of each breath and the chance to improve oneself. Evan Carmichael expands on gratitude as a growth mindset, urging viewers to say thank you even in negative situations—losses, setbacks, lack of sleep—viewing challenges as opportunities to demonstrate personal strength. He stresses smiling, resilience, and the importance of quickly shifting to gratitude to foster a solution‑oriented mindset, and invites the audience to comment on a recent negative event they can thank. Speaker C reinforces the concept of an "energy of gratitude," suggesting that focusing on what one already has expands personal energy, attracts more positivity, and can be practiced via a gratitude list. The video concludes with a teaser about a "one‑word secret to happiness" featuring insights from Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Oprah, Will.i.am, and Howard Schultz, directing viewers to a description link for a special video.
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You're still here, and you get another chance this day to do better and be better.
And then what I do? I smile. I smile. I smile and revel at the opportunity and challenge in front of me.
And an energy of gratitude can really open you up to this incredible capacity to feel more energized, to feel more happy.
Rise and shine, it's Enespresso time! What's up, Believe Nation? It's Evan Carmichael. My one word is believe, and I believe in you. I believe you have an amazing gift inside you that I want to see explode out onto the world. So let's start your day off right together. Grab your cup of coffee and sip on today's message: say thank you. Over to you, Oprah Winfrey.
Close your eyes for a moment, will you please? And breathe with me. Just close your eyes. And if you will, put your thumb to your middle finger and gather your other fingers around. And let's feel the vibration and pulse of your personal energy as you take Take 3 deep breaths with me. Inhale. And as you exhale, just feel the vibration, energy, blood pulsating through your body, through you. And another inhale. And another inhale. And keep your eyes closed. And let's just think about this day, this day that you have been graced to breathe in and out thousands of times. This day where many of those breaths were taken for granted. You just expected the next one to come. But the truth is there's no guarantee that the next one comes. This day, how you started your day, what your thoughts were this morning, how you've carried yourself through this day, How you've been allowed to have encounters and experiences, some challenging, some more life-enhancing, that pushed you forward another day of being here on the planet Earth as a human. Human being. Let's just think about that. After all you've been through in this day alone and the many days and years past, how you got here to this prestigious, esteemed university, the choices you made, that have brought you to this day. Open your heart and quietly to yourself say the only prayer that's ever needed: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're still here, and you get another chance this day to do better and be better, another chance to become more of who you were created and what you were created to fulfill. Thank you.
What you say thank you to will ultimately determine your happiness as a human being. I just believe that. I think gratitude is so important. I think too often it's really easy to say thank you for all the things that are easy to say thank you to, But when something goes wrong, when you get dealt a negative hand, when you have a blowback that happens in your life or in your business, how do you say thank you to that? And if you're constantly only happy when good things are happening to you, then you're really never going to be happy that often. When you can understand that every situation that's happening around you right now is actually good, can be good if you decide that it's going to be good, that's when the real growth starts to happen. I look at myself, and one of the things that I'm really trying to pay attention to and work on is not so much saying thank you, but it's an equivalent of it. It's when there's a challenge in my life or my business, if I've lost a big client, if something happens on my YouTube channel, if somebody leaves a team, if I only had a couple hours sleep, you know, there's something that just is negative and that everybody in the world would give you a pass, will give you a pardon to say, "You know what, it's okay. That's a crappy situation that you're going through. It's okay to complain and be angry and upset." What I try to do in those situations is I say, "This is my chance. This is my chance to show myself and to show the world what I'm made of." Because it's easy to win when it's easy, but that's not when you grow. You grow through the difficulties. You grow through the hard times. You go through the challenges. And so I don't seek out those crazy obstacles. You know, I would love to have a regular 8-hour sleep every night, and for a good chunk of nights I do. But if I'm up and I only have 3 hours sleep, what am I gonna do with that day? Am I just gonna mail it in? Am I just gonna complain? Am I just gonna be upset? If I lose a client or something happens on YouTube, am I just gonna pack it in for the day and start again tomorrow. I use it— what the internal dialogue inside here, this is what's happening. I tell myself, this is my opportunity to show myself and the world what I'm made of today. This is my opportunity to grow. And then what I do? I smile. I smile. I smile and revel at the opportunity and challenge in front of me because You do not grow, you do not get better, you do not improve by racing against 3-year-olds. You improve when there's adversities. You grow stronger through the struggle. The struggle is going to be guaranteed. The results may not be. You may not get to where you want to go. You may not achieve your goal, but the struggle is guaranteed. And so if you know the struggle is guaranteed, what's your mindset going to be when the struggle comes? When the self-doubt comes? When the negativity comes, when the hatred comes, when the failures come, what's your mindset going to be? Because the faster you can get to the point of thank you, of gratitude, of I'm going to learn from this, of this is a positive, of this is going to make me better, stronger, healthier, happier from every negative situation, the faster you can get to that point where you can genuinely say thank you. And even I think at the beginning just forcing it, forcing yourself to lock out of that negative situation and say, how can I be grateful for this? How can I say thank you for this? It immediately moves you to a more positive mindset. It immediately moves you to a solution-oriented mindset. It immediately moves you closer towards achieving the goal, conquering that mountain, going for what you want, as opposed to lying in bed under the sheets feeling sorry for yourself. Now I've got a very special bonus clip for you, but before getting to that, I wanna know from you, what is one recent negative thing that has happened in your life or your business that you now wanna say thank you to because it's your chance to show yourself and the world what you're made of? Leave it in the comments below, really curious to find out. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever Your one word is much love. I'll see you soon and enjoy the bonus clips.
I wake up every morning, espresso keeps me going.
The next phase here is also to become grateful for what it is that you do have. So if you're starting to try to create change in your life, you want to make sure that you're really focusing on what it is that you do have in your life so that you feel an energy of gratitude. Energy of gratitude can really open you up to this incredible capacity to feel more energized, to feel more happy. In any given moment where you feel like, "Oh, I don't have what I need," or, "I'm not supported," or, "Things aren't working out," the simple step here is to just say, "I am grateful for what I do have." When we look and we say, "I am grateful for what I do have," we create more of what we want. The energy of gratitude opens our heart and it expands our energy and it makes us a much more wonderful, loving person to be around. With that loving energy, we begin to attract more into our life. We want to really make sure that that energy of gratitude is a very pinnacle part of this miracle worker process, which is that we stay committed and open to what it is that we are here to receive, and we stay committed and grateful for what it is that we have. And so you can begin today just by making a gratitude list and focus on it. And there's so many moments when I think, oh my God, I can't believe I have to do this, or I can't believe I have to get to that, and, and then I just think about what I'm grateful for, and it just spins me immediately out of the crazy chaos and back into a centered place of love. And so I think that this is a really valuable tool for you to begin to use regularly, and it's an active tool throughout the book May Cause Miracles.
So let me give you the one word secret to happiness. One word. This is all you need to be happy. The most important word ever.
If you had to think of one word that's most important to you or that sums you up or that would be kind of like a little beacon.
Hey Believe Nation, if you want to know what the most important one word is for Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Oprah Winfrey, Will.i.am, and Howard Schultz, I have a very special special secret video for you. Check the description for details.
