Preface
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Best You 365
Introduction
BY365 is about asking yourself the questions:
“How can I become my best self?”
“What does that mean to me personally?”
“How can I become a better person every single day?”
“And how can I help and enable people to do the same through my own actions and journey?”
today: Gratitude is Attitude
When you find yourself seeking something more for yourself, it’s easy to get lost in the future and miss the good you already have given and receive every day. (believe me, I know)
To begin your journey to the best version of yourself possible, you must start by being grateful who you are right now, and what you have going for you already.
No matter what setbacks you are facing, I can assure you someone else out there has it worse.
Even at its most extreme feels, when has hating yourself ever worked out for someone?
We must learn from the mistakes and pain. Use them as drivers to embetter yourself and inspire others.
Becoming your best self is not about rejecting your old self. To move on to something bigger, you must be okay with who you are.
I mean, doesn’t the idea of accepting who you are — mistakes and all — sound like you are already becoming someone better?
Look @ me for example, here I am surrounded by privilege, living in the land of the free, home of the brave, but am I giving thanks every day for what I have?
Do I use my freedom to pursue bravery or am I just living within my fears?
Questions we should take the time to ask ourselves.
Gratitude is Attitude.
It’s something you bring to the table.
It’s a perspective you must practice.
It’s a lens that changes even the bad things that happen to you, to the good.
Practice
Gratitude Tips — There are many resources out there for gratitude, but here are some of my favorites to get you started:
1. Each morning, write down three things you’re most grateful for. It can be anything you want.
- Make one you gratitudes something small. Something that’s easy to forget you have (such as the sky, or that bird chirping outside your window, a pen, etc)
- I use the 5 – Minute Journal as a guiding habit
2. Before you talk to anyone, say ‘I love you’ in your mind to them. (Learned this from TF’s book, Tools of Titans.) You won’t believe how effective and mood-lifting this can be, even towards someone you dislike!
3. Practice frugality (like Marcus Aurelius, or Benjamin Franklin) for one day each month. Spend the smallest amount possible on food (eating rice and beans, or something like that), wear cheap clothes, even sleep on the floor. Not only does this make you grateful for what you have, but also reduces the anxiety of losing it all. Showing you it’s not that bad to have nothing.
4. Send a thank you note to someone. Write a letter, reach out. call someone. There’s nothing like gratitude than giving someone presence. It tells them,
‘I see you.’
5. Give a random person a compliment. Think of the last time someone did this to you. Doesn’t it immediately boost your mood for the day?
#KeepPursuing — Josh Waggoner
