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By Adam Smith

In today’s article, 8 Simple Ways To Help Boost Your Gratitude Every Day. I will show you effective ways to help build your mental strength through gratitude. By the end of this article I hope you find that motivation to develop your mindset with gratitude.

Gratitude Is A Way Of Life

“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” Gerald Good

After 30 days of practising gratitude daily. I reviewed to find 8 Simple Ways To Help Boost Your Gratitude Every Day.

It’s amazing how giving thanks helped in such an effective way.

With the busyness of life, it can be hard to find time for anything for yourself. Just try being a father to two children or a demanding work environment where people need your constant attention. It can be challenging to say the least.

What has had a huge effect on my life is finding time to work on myself. Being selfish in a positive way allows me to improve. In turn, it has allowed me to give more to everyone around me with my energy and my focus has been transformed.

Practising gratitude daily. I am a more peaceful person. A happier person. A more focused person. A more present person. A better father and husband. Overall simply just a better person.

As simple it is to practice gratitude the results you get are tenfold.

This technique should be in every school, workplace, sports club. It’s no wonder people from all walks of life who have become super successful in their chosen field have it as part of their daily routine.

It’s because it works.

Now I want this for you, so I have compiled 8 Simple Ways To Help Boost Your Gratitude Every Day.

8 Simple Ways To Help Boost Your Gratitude Every Day

1. Apply gratitude blitz to everyday life

Throughout your daily life, it can be challenging but also really busy and having time to sit down alone to write a gratitude list might be difficult. A great way that can help you overcome this is by applying quick-firing gratitude to everything around you that you can see through your eyes and in your mind. I call it the gratitude blitz and it can be anything from the air your currently breathing or a smell of the plants around you. This helped me regain my positivity in a negative setting and put me back in control of my mind to regain balance.

2. Have a gratitude journal

When alone without kids, spouses or your mobile phone unless for a gratitude app. You can now unwind your thoughts into your gratitude journal. This helped me to think in-depth about what I’m thankful for and have time to imagine and feel that joy from being thankful for your day.

3. Don’t be too hard on yourself

It’s also ok if you forget to do it for one day or when you’re in a negative situation you forget to use the strategy to regain your happiness. Just be conscious that it’s happened and have plans to overcome it. I started putting alarm reminders when I should do it throughout my day which held me accountable to do it or sticky notes in places where you know you will be reminded.

Remember we are forming a new habit and when learning mistakes are always going to happen so learn to enjoy the process.

4. When in doubt get your sand timer out

To be able to perform a quick gratitude burst. Having something to focus on is essential to keep you on track. You can use any form of stopwatch but I prefer a sand timer that I take with me everywhere. I know when it comes out it’s gratitude time and it allows me to focus and calm my thoughts.

5. Instead of finding negatives, find positives

When people make you angry, frustrated or dam right annoyed before you lash out the inner chimp (Ego). Say something positive instead. It will quickly defuse any negative emotion harbouring inside you and the response you will receive back will be more agreeable. By disarming any situation with positive words will allow you to stay calm and centred.

6. Make sure you breathe

Of course, being grateful in a certain situation can be difficult. So when you are in any situation where you feel your blood rising. Just breathe! This will increase your oxygen back to your brain allowing you to return to your normal state, then return to being thankful.

7. Schedule slots upon awakening or before bed

Having a fixed time slot is essential to sticking to your daily practice of gratitude. So in the morning where I’m busier, I perform quick gratitude from my surroundings and then at night with more time, I journal my thoughts then. This has helped me form the habit as part of the day.

8. Freshen up your thanks so it doesn’t get too boring

What really stops someone from continuing the practice of gratitude and even myself in the past is saying the same things over and over again. This can become boring and something that’s easier to forget about. That’s why it’s important to freshen up your thankfulness and make it more specific to your day rather than general stuff.

Last Word With The Future Mindset

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie

Practising gratitude for me is still a work in progress. Sometimes I have days that I forget or my ego gets the better of me.

95% of the time I definitely can see the benefits of this practice and I will never look back again. The overall health benefits it can have on your mind allows me to think more clearly and keeps me living in the moment.

Start slowly with an evening journal or voice notes and start being grateful for your life today.

I hope this helps you with your mindfulness journey.

FUTURE MINDSET

At Future Mindset, we are here to push the boundaries of our thoughts and actions. By chasing discomfort in our lives, it can lead us to unlock things inside us we never knew was there. Let’s change our mindset to change our future.

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Chase discomfort and have a great day wherever you are!

WHAT TO EXPECT!

In today’s article, How To Start Your Day With A Successful Morning Routine. I will show you my morning routine and how it helped my performance increase, overall wellbeing and how these habits have changed my whole outlook on life. Having a winning morning routine develops you to strengthen the mindset to deal with any challenges in your day effectively. Change your mindset, change your future!

My Morning Rundown

We all have a morning routine. I’m sure we all want to wake up in the morning firing out the blocks for a great day, but unfortunately, it’s never that simple and it can be more like a chore to wake up early. Then one day I had enough of my comfortable warm bed taking control of me and so I researched how to start your day with a successful morning routine.

There was an amazing amount of articles, books and videos on the subject. Everyone had their own style, timings and tasks they did that set them up for a great day. So I decided to find the patterns that came about the most and put them to action. Plus I added in a few of my own that would help me with what I really needed.

So here are my top morning tips on how to start your day with a successful morning routine.

How To Start Your Day With A Successful Morning Routine

1. Pick A Time And Stick To It

The most important part of your whole routine is getting up. Sometimes this can be a challenge as the comfort of your bed and more sleep will try and get the better of you. This is normal for everyone but you still have a choice.

So the night before, you need to set an alarm that you know you can wake up to. Make sure you’re going to bed 6 -8 hours before you have to wake to make it an easier experience as the first few days, it’ll be very challenging to wake up early.

Once your brain knows when you want to wake up, it has an amazing effect of waking you up just before your alarm apart from the days when you haven’t had enough sleep or your body is exhausted from the previous day.

This is when you have to take control of your mind and just get up. This will be your most important win of the day because you have already beaten most people who don’t

2. Drink Water To Re-hydrate the Brain

Waking up the brain quickly in the morning makes everything else that you’re trying to do a lot easier. Overnight your body was of course still working, so rehydrating it before you start anything helps keep it in top-notch shape.

3. Read A Personal Development Chapter

For me getting my brain firing on all cylinders is reading a book that can develop you and unlock new ideas. Reading in the morning is like fuel for the brain that gets it operating for the day ahead. Also, reading can be difficult once the day gets going due to commitments and at night your brain will be tired to take in the new information. So it’s a great time to do it in silence.

4. Start Writing

Straight after reading, I start writing. This is a great way to put all your thoughts on paper. From doing this action – I have started writing blog posts more often, and it has given me a greater understanding of my thoughts. It also makes me feel great after the whole experience.

Writing straight away in the morning also takes away the procrastination of doing it later. When your minds busier with daily life. Especially when your children want your undying attention.

If blogging isn’t your thing then journaling just for your eyes only is exactly the same process. If not, find what works for you.

5. My Purpose & Vision

An important part of my morning routine is knowing where I’m headed throughout my day and life. That’s why I designed a vision board of the top things that I want to achieve within the next decade. This helps me stay positive and focus on what I need to achieve.

My goals for the day mainly revolve around achieving this objective.

This is a real personal experience. It doesn’t matter how you put it all together as long as you know clearly where you’re headed.

6. Gratitude Time

To lift yourself up is being grateful and thankful for anything in your life that comes to mind. It can be family, your home, the earth or just to be alive. When you’re grateful it releases positive emotions. Being grateful takes you into your day in a positive mental state. As well as keeping yourself balanced as a person.

7. My Victory List

It’s easy to see other peoples successes which can either lead to inspiration or jealously. The most important person you should reviewing for successes is yourself. We take for granted all that we have done in our lives.

So I created into sections the decades that I’ve lived and all of my achievements I could think of. Early on that, I learned to walk and talk.

My second decade was Winning the cup double and going to university. My last decade was opening my own business and having a wife and children.

When you have this list. It allows you to know that you are a success and you are worthy to be in this world. It also allows you to visualise what else you can add to your victory list

8. Breathing Meditation

Any form of mediation has been proven to boost your mental and physical capacity. The one I chose was the breathing meditation led by Wim Hoffs techniques. This is such an amazing journey to go on. I have definitely seen the benefits of being more balanced and calm as a person. I highly recommend this format but go on your own journey to find yours.

9. Yoga

For me getting older and having more responsibilities led to less time focusing on my body. Then I decided if I want to live a healthy life as I get older this has to change.

I thought Yoga was for women and now I know how wrong that statement was. This is for anyone at all different levels and my experience of this has been an absorbing one.

I practice with Breathe and Flow. It has shown me that my whole body needs work in flexibility and core strength. For you to add Yoga into your morning routine. It will definitely impact you later on in life. As well it will give you a great mood and accomplishment boost to start your day.

10. Full Body Workout

We all know the benefits of working out our body and the endorphins that get released from them. For me, it’s just committing and doing it. The mentality approach I have when I’m doing it is by saying “just one more.” That could be one more rep or one more set to go. This helps me stay present and get through the workout fully disciplined. You can research all the benefits but the answer will be to just do it!

I set aside 2 hours of my morning to do this. It has changed my life when it comes to happiness and productivity throughout the day.

If anyone out there may be suffering from anxiety, stress, forms of depression. Please create a morning routine. It will literally change your whole outlook on your day and eventually with hard work, your life.

What I Enjoy About My Routine

For me, the best thing about having a morning routine. Is that I have already won before I have even started my day. Every morning I work on 10 tasks that I need to achieve on my to-do list. Once that I’ve ticked off everything on my list, feel like a winner.

With that positive energy, the momentum takes me through the rest of my day with purpose. The number of times I have got into the state of flow because of my morning routine. Is too many to count.

There is a reason why athletes and successful people in all walks of life have a morning routine. It allows them the best possible start to their day.

What Can Set You Back

At first, this can be a big change in someone’s life. Especially with all the hurdles that can be thrown your way. For instance, if you needed more sleep and you woke up later than planned. Don’t write off the whole routine, just manage it the best you can.

For me having a 1-year-old wake you up at 4.am can be a real challenge to start your day with only 4 hours of sleep. It could be you have an important meeting that’s in the middle of your routine. It’s not ideal but we just have to adapt and not be so hard on ourselves.

We are not robots we are humans who are built to adapt. So you can use it as a strength and still get great results from your morning. It’s just our mindset towards it.

Final Thoughts

I hope now you know how to start your day with a successful morning routine. It’s definitely changed my life for the better. Before I end this post, I challenge you to create your own morning routine. It could be 1 thing you wish to do or it could be 10. Take action and commit to it and watch your life change for the better. Let me know how you get on. I would love to know!

THE FUTURE MINDSET

At Future Mindset, we are here to push the boundaries of our thoughts and actions. By chasing discomfort in our lives, it can lead us to unlock things inside us we never knew was there. Let’s change our mindset to change our future.

For all of our latest blog posts on developing your mindset. Make sure you sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay informed. Thank you so much for your support. We would love to discuss any comments on this post. If you have any suggestions on future posts. I’m more than happy to research and deliver that for you.

Chase discomfort and have a great day wherever you are!