Two speakers explore how gratitude shifts your focus from constantly chasing new goals to recognizing what you've already achieved. They reference Dan Sullivan's "gap and gain" concept and argue that gratitude reduces anxiety, makes hard work feel rewarding, and helps you stay motivated without burning out.
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It's so much easier to forgive when we've first forgiven ourselves. And gratitude is a reminder of how far we've come. Dan Sullivan talks about the gap and the gain. And so many people, not just entrepreneurs, but just the average person, we have goals and desires and we feel like we're never obtaining them because the horizon keeps moving away from us. But when we use gratitude to reflect what we already have and also what we're calling for in the future, it's Pretty amazing how fast things can change when we change what our awareness is on. And you still have to do work, right? It, and it might mean you have to do more work than you're doing now, but it can certainly sweeten the path too, right? We're going to have to walk into, walk through thorns sometimes to get to where we want to go. And gratitude allows us to reflect on how far we've come, but also puts us in the right state to keep moving forward. Yeah.
I find it And that's for me, one of the definitions of gratitude is being in that present moment. Whereas we're career-driven people, whether you're an entrepreneur or not, if anyone who's gone through university, they've always been very forward-thinking, right? They've mapped out what courses they had to take in high school, what courses they had to take, what their career choices were gonna be. If you're planning to buy a house, like, so we're, many of us are always very forward-thinking and You know, if you're looking to afford a lot, a lot of times then we get stuck in anxiety versus gratitude really can pull you to the present moment. And you can be, as you mentioned and alluded to, yes, you can have— be grateful for those moments that have not yet happened. I think that's part of the visualization or the manifestation of that's all possible.
