The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

Let’s have an “awe inspiring” mindset of never die, just like the Ant Man.

Mindset is everything.

Let me say that again: Mindset is EVERYTHING.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/05/timberwolves-anthony-edwards-sky-never-falling

Q: When is the Sky is falling?

A: Never

This is about the greatest quote that demonstrates the power of choosing your attitude.

Everyone chooses their attitude every moment of every day all the time anyway however the overwhelming majority of people believe that they’re attitude is a result of circumstances and external variables that they don’t control.

The reality from a neuroscience standpoint is that 95% of your thoughts are taking place in your subconscious and until you understand what’s going on up there in the kitchen all of the activities around you really just provide distractions and don’t inform you as to what’s really going on in your consciousness.

In my coaching program that I’ve been developing with my coaches over the last few months we are using a book called “FISH”, which is a parable story of a woman who finds inspiration and the keys to an upbeat and energetic reality by talking to an observing the pikes place fish market in Seattle.

The woman in the story learns more about customer service and company culture talking to Fishmonger then she ever learned in all of her studies at college.

The Fishmonger teaches us in the book is about the reality that, just like at a Fish market where you may have to clean fish and sweep up and mop, and other less than glamorous tasks that you can’t choose, you can in every moment choose your attitude.  

That is a choice so choose a great one.

https://www.pikeplacefish.com/

The NBA basketball player Anthony Edwards would make a great employee at Pike’s Fish Market because he fully gets the importance and the opportunity to choose your own attitude.

Here is in the locker room, getting excited, even though his team is down three games to nothing and no team has ever come back from such a deficit at this point of the NBA playoffs.

You see the circumstance doesn’t change the attitude. It’s the other way around. His attitude has a great chance and opportunity to change the situation and the circumstance by creating a different energy.

Your mindset is all about growth and abundance. You can see inspiration and examples of other folks leading the way for you you turn.  I just happen to be, and when I look there, I see lots of examples of people practicing gratitude and abundant mindset that we can learn and grow from.

If I was more into tennis, I would be talking about the incredible mindset attitude of a guy like Raphael Nadal, who unfortunately just lost at the French Open and is in the twilight of his career. I’m just not interested in hearing what’s going on with Raphael even though he seems like a really great dude and his groundstrokes, on clay especially, left-handed, are some of the greatest strokes ever in the history of tennis.

There are so many stories that we can turn to, some that take place in much more serious situations and environments than a basketball basketball game, where human beings are choosing an attitude of gratitude, even under dire circumstances because they’re maintaining the knowledge that their attitude is still their choice.  

Even in the darkest moments of life, we can choose to reconnect with our breath, reclaim thoughts of abundance and steer, our mental and emotional ship back into the waters of appreciation and scarcity, fear and victimhood.  

These are choices.

Where the challenge comes in for most folks is to generate an understanding of how to get into a place of present moment awareness, so that you can, as objectively as possible, give yourself a check up from the neck up and see if your attitude is one that serves you and is moving you forward towards your aspirations and the manifestation of your own personal greatness.

This is in our coaching, our happiness, Sherpa, endeavor, we are really focusing on introducing folks to the basic understanding and information of present moment awareness neuroplasticity, how important breathing is and just providing a lot of support of examples of other folks that are pursuing growth and development in their own way that we can learn and be inspired from.

At the end of the day, I want everybody to feel in their own lives like Anthony Edwards does, and honestly like me, where everything is an opportunity to learn and grow no matter how difficult it is.

When we reclaim a focus on what is in our control and what we have the ability to influence it reduces anxiety in our thoughts, and our lives significantly.  

Letting go of control of some things, like the weather, reminds us that we can make the best sandwiches ever but it still could rain the next day…… and the picnic could get canceled.

That doesn’t make us a victim, no way!!

Instead, we will pick up the phone and call our neighbors and tell them to grab an umbrella and come on over for a Picnic Party in the Living Room! .

We’re having an indoor picnic and we’re watching Golf instead on TV, so wear a bathing suit, golf clothes, or nothing at all, and put on sunscreen just to make the house smell like it’s sunny outside. We will gather around the TV and cheer and celebrate Nellie Korda winning another event(local Girl!!! woo-hoo) with our Attitude of Gratitude.

EVERY DAY:

Love

and

Gratitude

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