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There are increasing volumes of documented evidence of the benefits of shifting your state and attitude to that of being grateful for all that you have, all that you are and all that surrounds you.In this Simple Note, I will focus on expressing gratitude in the toughest times and how your attitude will improve from regular acts and cultivation of gratitude.
Unsurprisingly energy levels and resilience often become part of my coaching work. At times when it feels like ploughing-on is the only option, no time to stop, there are actually things you can do to boost your energy and avoid these seemingly overwhelming drains.
Do you notice the distinction between a good week and a bad week, in terms of your energy and happiness?
What is your relationship to impossible?
Are you unconsciously accepting your current situation, restricting and deleting thoughts of what could be? Have you created a habit of ending aspirational thinking as soon as it reaches what you judge to be impossible? What aspects of hope and desire have you not visited for a while? Now might be time to visit them again.
What are you immediately driven to think, say or do? Over time you will have become used to your way of thinking, your instinctive responses have developed. I often notice that we can exercise choice more purposefully and more often. We are either evolving or repeating. Your choice-muscle could be rejuvenated by exercise and strengthening.
As one of my old coaches, Drew Rozell, eloquently stated “You’re here, now, nowhere else. Act like it!” This played out again for me last week as I delivered several speeches. The same may be true for you, rushing from one meeting to the next, and from one gnarly email to the next conversation. Here are a few angles to help inspire your awareness and return to right here, right now.
