Andresa GuidelliCEO, The Real Estate InvestHER · Co-Founder

YOU'RE WRITING IT BUT ARE YOU FEELING IT?

7 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube monologue, the speaker critiques the common practice of gratitude lists, arguing that merely writing down items does not generate lasting positive feelings. The core message is that gratitude must be felt physically to be effective. The speaker illustrates this by describing how, after writing down gratitude for her dog (who was recently ill), she physically pets and holds the dog, allowing the feeling of gratitude to become real and impactful. She advises viewers to engage with the objects of their gratitude through sensory interaction, suggesting that this embodied approach will make gratitude “stick” and lead to a more positive mindset throughout the day.

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Most people don't know how to be grateful, and here's what I mean. They make gratitude lists— I'm grateful for these 5 things— and then they move on their day and they still feel like crap. The key to gratitude is actually to feel. I have used gratitude to help me just get into a positive state because often my mind will go, what's not working versus what is working. Take it one step further. When I write down my dog, I go pet the dog, I hold my dog. I'm grateful for my dog because it was sick recently. There's a level of feeling that has to go into gratitude to make it stick and actually make it real versus a gratitude list. I wrote these things down, now I'm going to move on with my day. So feel those things you're grateful for, and you'll have more of it in your life.