Hi, welcome max failure to freedom. It's week five. And I know you've been showing up I know you've been doing the work and if by chance you've missed a day here and there, no worries, you're back on track. You're here today with me. And I hope that I can set your week off right and inspire you as you move forward on the right foot. So today's affirmation is gratitude, I have gratitude, I am grateful.

When is the last time you truly said that to yourself or someone else and actually meant it. So gratitude is such a powerful tool in life. And I can't speak on this topic enough. But I'm going to try to keep it short and sweet so that you can get to your day and bring gratitude into your life. So to have gratitude is to be grateful. To be grateful, you must have perspective and to cultivate perspective, you must first be able to have an experience and then this is the key.

You have to be able to step back. So I want to stop you here. And I want you to think about a situation that you've been able to step back from. And as a result, you may have made different choices than you would have otherwise. Because you've been able to step back when we step back again, perspective. And that's really the key in accelerating ourselves forward in life, or moving from the struggles and the constant failure into this realm of freedom and abundance and success.

We have to have gratitude. I can think about my own life and I spent so many years bitter because I felt less than I was not grateful. I didn't understand what gratitude was. And as I submerge myself more and more in this understanding, something really amazing happened. So, I want to share with you a little bit of something that I did during my really dark, dark Is knee deep in an eating disorder. And that was I had a gratitude journal.

And I think back and I think, why was I even doing that I was so broken. I was so fragile. I was really kind of angry with life. But I still had this gratitude journal. And I did three things every single night, aside from my journaling, and some of the things I wrote about in life poetry and poetry, poetry, I still do. But there were three things that I did in my gratitude journal every single day for years, I have a stack of journals to prove that I still have those.

And the first thing was every single night I wrote three people that I was grateful for. And I tried choose three people that were very relevant to me at that point in my life. I tried to choose people, different people every day if I felt the initiative to do so. And then I would try to write a quality about those people that I admired or that I liked. And that proved to be a great challenge for Because they were pivotal people in my life at that time that I didn't get along with or angry with. And just to write their names down in that journal was like, being a stone or a huge rock to write their names.

But the more than I did that, the more I was actually able to develop a gratefulness and a compassion for them for where they are in their life. So that was the first thing that I did. The second thing that I did was I wrote three things that I was grateful for three things in my life. It could be tangible, it could be whatever. And I would write a little something about them who would gave me it, why I was grateful for it. And then the third thing I did was I wrote three situations.

I was grateful for that day. So this was really really important for me because I at one point was ending and purging up to eight times a day, so that shouldn't leave a whole lot of space for me. have anything very positive in my life happen, because my eating disorder so heavily ran my rice. But this gratitude journal and this three situations thing really forced me to look at every single day and find that teeny tiny itty bitty things that happened. I was like, that was really good, or I made a good choice or that person was really nice to me or Wow. And those things really made a huge difference in the long run.

And that may have been one of those things that actually helped me stay alive. That helps me not fall even deeper into the trenches of my addiction and depression than that which I already was. It kept me having hope. It kept me having faith and belief that I could do it and I can get better and I can move from this constant failure into the freedom that I so desperately crave. Gratitude is such a pivotal part of our success. I don't care if you are struggling with addiction, if you're just dealing with a lot of work stress, if you're wondering what your next step is, in life, if you're thinking of a career change, whatever it is, we have to be grateful.

The most successful people that I personally know are full of gratitude. They're constantly getting, they're so transparent. They want nothing more than to help other people in an authentic way. And they're grateful for the little things. And they're slow to anger. And so many of these things for us back on the notion that they're grateful that they're appreciative for what they have and for what you can personally offer to the world.

Like for you purchasing this course, inspires me to create more things for people like you and trust so much gratitude in my heart for you, but also for my journey. In life, I used to hate where I came from. I used to be bitter with God that why is this happening to me? Why, why me? Why can't I be normal. But I've actually been able to develop compassion and gratitude and appreciation for the struggles that I've endured.

Because I wouldn't be here without them. I wouldn't be talking with you, I wouldn't be sharing and inspiring you towards a better life towards freedom if it wasn't for those things. So what are you grateful for today? What are you grateful for today? How can you be grateful today? And I gotta be honest, gratitude is contagious.

And gratitude attracts great things. So unless you don't want to attract great things in your life, and then continue to be a bitter old person, which Hey, I've been there. But if you're looking for abundance, if you're looking for that next step, I want to encourage you to step into gratitude for my art to yours from my soul to yours, no mistake.