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You’ve heard you should have a regular gratitude practice. Maybe you’ve even tried it. But how often do you really<\/em> practice gratitude – and do you know how to practice gratitude most effectively?<\/p>\n Learn how to practice gratitude and why to make it a regular thing in your life in this rewind of an early Life & Law Podcast episode.<\/p>\n Because practicing gratitude regularly will help you to feel and BE your absolute best (something I think we all need more of).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23″ text_line_height=”1.1em” header_3_font=”|700||on|||||” header_3_text_color=”#ba9657″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_3_letter_spacing=”2px” header_3_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” header_2_font_size_tablet=”22px” header_2_font_size_phone=”18px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Why My Grandfather Was Happy (Even When He Was Dying)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Episode #28: How To Deal With Uncomfortable Feelings<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Episode #2: The Truth About Lawyer Stress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Episode #1: Welcome To The Life & Law Podcast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Join The Get Reenergized Self-Care Challenge<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”left” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_toggle title=”Episode Transcript” open_toggle_text_color=”#003049″ closed_toggle_background_color=”#f4ece1″ icon_color=”#ba9657″ open_icon_color=”#ba9657″ _builder_version=”4.23″ _module_preset=”default” title_text_color=”#003049″ title_level=”h6″ title_font=”Open Sans|700||on|||||” title_text_align=”left” title_font_size=”20px” title_line_height=”1.4em” body_font_size=”16px” module_alignment=”left” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”#003049″ box_shadow_style=”preset4″ box_shadow_color=”#003049″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [00:00:49] Hey there, everybody. This is Heather Moulder, host of the Life & Law podcast. And for those of you listening to this from the United States on the week that this one comes, happy, happy Thanksgiving. I hope that you have wonderful plans with family and or friends and that you have a very safe and happy holiday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Because this week is Thanksgiving, I wanted to come in here today and revisit an old episode – one of my early episodes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In fact, it’s the first episode I did for the week of Thanksgiving, and it’s all about gratitude – what gratitude is, how it truly helps with your mentality and your mindset and how to practice gratitude.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And I’m replaying this:<\/span><\/p>\n I especially want to note that this is not about positive thinking when there’s a lot of crud going on. It’s about something deeper than that. It’s about finding ways to be grateful, even through the very difficult times. Because there is always something to be grateful for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And the reason for that is so that you can show up as your best. Okay?<\/span><\/p>\n The world needs more of us to show up as our best. I truly believe that. And I hope that today’s episode helps you to do just that today, this week, and in the future as well.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All right, that’s it for today. We will be back next week with a new episode, y’all.<\/span><\/p>\n ***Rewind Episode***<\/span><\/p>\n We are talking about gratitude because gratitude can be life changing. I know that sounds probably a little hokey to you. Okay, Heather, how can gratitude really change my life? But I’m here to tell you that it can. And we’re going to get into that today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I picked this topic partly because it is Thanksgiving. Y’all, here in the United States, we are celebrating Thanksgiving, that is when this episode is airing. And so I thought it was appropriate since we are all giving thanks and having gratitude for various things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But I really want to challenge you to expand upon that and think about utilizing a regular gratitude practice within your life.<\/span><\/p>\n We’re going to talk about:<\/span><\/p>\n And when I talked earlier about what I do, helping lawyers create a more fulfilling practice, the practice that they want, and you might think, okay, that’s great and all, but how on God’s green earth does that relate to gratitude, Heather?<\/span><\/p>\n Well, gratitude really can be life changing in the sense that it rewires your brain to look at life very differently. And when you look at life in a particular way, it changes your actions, right? Based on your outlook on life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I have talked about this before.<\/span><\/p>\n Event plus response equals your outcome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can’t always have an effect or an impact on the events. Lots of things happen that are completely outside of your control. And frankly, even when you had some impact on the event itself, once it’s happened, it’s happened.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But what you can do and have control over is your own response. And that is what we get at when we talk about mindset. It’s all in the response.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Well, gratitude is one of those things that can really rewire your brain in a way that changes how you perceive things, which then affects the responses that you have, which then affect your outcomes. Right? So this is why I say it can be truly transformative within your life.<\/span><\/p>\n So no eye rolling, okay?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I just want you to promise me you’re not going to roll your eyes and you’re going to fully and completely listen to today’s episode before you make up your mind. Okay?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Before we get into the specifics of today’s topic, I’ve got a couple of housekeeping items for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you have not joined the Get Reenergized Self Care Challenge, I highly recommend you do it. Especially at this time of year.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n We tend to be really busy around the holiday season. Year end can be crazy busy for a lot of practices. I know it was for me back when I practiced law. I was in a corporate finance practice and it’s a stressful time of year, for a lot of us anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We’re having year end reviews. Partners and shareholders are having compensation reviews. It’s stressful, right? And then you add into that the holidays and family and right now with the Coronavirus and people having differing things going on within their families and whether they can or cannot gather because of what’s been going on, it leads to a lot of stress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And so I would love for you to join my challenge. It is a seven day challenge, but it’s super simple. Y’all, you get one email per day for seven days with a lesson and a corresponding challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And the way this specific challenge works is it is organized to help you rewire and shift your thinking around what self care even is and truly simplify it so that it can be transformative in the sense that you can find very simple and easy ways to really prioritize your well being and take care of yourself as best as you can without feeling guilty about it.<\/b> Okay? And also without taking a lot of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Now, yes, some self care practices take up some time, but they don’t have to. And there’s a lot of things out there that you can do that take up very little time, and frankly, no time at all that you can couple with regular everyday activities that are already going on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That’s really what the self care challenge is about. It’s going to get you to shift that thinking and start expanding upon how you look at self care so that you can really start prioritizing it for yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And right now, in one of the so called most wonderful times of the year, that happens to be one of the more stressful for a lot of us, I think it’s important that you do prioritize it. One way to do that is to join the Get Reenergized Self-Care Challenge. <\/span>So I will have a link to that in the show notes<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Please go do it if you haven’t already. Okay, this is for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you are enjoying this podcast, please do consider giving me a rating and a review. I love to hear from you. I read every one. They are very meaningful to me and it helps to get the podcast found.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And I am always trying to grow and get this in front of as many people as I can so that I can help as many people as I can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, if you enjoyed today’s episode, please consider sharing it specifically with somebody you think it would help. You can email it to them, you can share it on your favorite social media platform, whatever it may be. Just pick somebody that you know this would help and share it with them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Okay, that’s it. Let’s dive right into gratitude.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Okay, so a little bit of truth here. I heard about gratitude for a long time before I ever, ever started practicing it. In fact, I would roll my eyes anytime I heard somebody bring it up. I thought, \u201cYeah, right, that sounds way too good to be true. It’s too woo woo for me. I’m not a woo girl.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nLinks & Recommended Episodes<\/h3>\n
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Today we’re going to get into the why and the how.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
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E + R = O<\/span><\/h3>\n
Item number one (join my self-care challenge).<\/span><\/h3>\n
Number two.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
Number three.<\/span><\/h3>\n
My Story Behind Gratitude (That Will Help You Understand Why Gratitude Is So Beneficial)<\/span><\/h2>\n
What I Used To Think About Gratitude<\/span><\/h3>\n