Spend some time every day in deliberate gratitude where you actively and consciously consider all the good things in your life. I love doing it in my journal. So every morning I drink two cups of coffee, it’s a great antioxidant, great for cognitive function. And while I’m doing that, it’s like a time for myself where I just write down, here are the things I’m grateful for. I write down my loved ones. I am surrounded by such amazing people. My loved ones are amazing. My team, some of the best people I’ve ever met. The suppliers I work with that I’ve allowed into my life, my suppliers, excellent people, ethical people. My friends, funny and loving and brilliant and prosperous and adventurers, and maybe pirates a little bit too, because we love to have fun in a healthy way. And so I write every morning the great things that are in my life. And don’t only write the obvious things. Don’t only write things like, you have a job, or your loved ones. Write if you have two eyes, start to become consciously and actively grateful about eyesight, because not everyone has eyesight. It makes me think of the old Persian proverb, I cursed the fact that I had no shoes until I saw the man who had no feet. If you have two feet, are you consciously grateful for having two feet? If you have a roof over your head in a world where a lot of people don’t have a roof over their heads, are you actively grateful for that?If you have food in your belly every night, are you grateful for that, in a world where a lot of people are suffering from poverty and famine? If you have your health, that’s your wealth. I mean, imagine being actively grateful every single day for things that most people take for granted. It’s profound. Okay, gratitude is important, and you can say, “Well, I’m a business builder and I’m a financier, and I’m a titan, and I’m a history maker.” Just imagine how powerful you will be in your creativity, productivity with your team, in your private life, with your spiritual life, and with your happiness and sense of self. If you are loving the ride, but intimately and acutely grateful for every little thing that you have. It’s a really smart way to go through life.
