What is your attitude on a daily basis?
Are you the first one to point out what is wrong in your life?
Do you focus on what you DON’T have as opposed to focusing on what you DO have?
If so, check out my Tune Up Tip of the Week called Get an Attitude of Gratitude!
I suggest writing a quick gratitude list of 5 things everyday that inspire gratitude in your heart. Â This exercise will help to strengthen your gratitude muscle and naturally shift your attitude towards seeing what is right RIGHT NOW in your amazing, beautiful, one of a kind life.
The vibration of your feelings of gratitude energetically draw more experiences in your life to be grateful for…who doesn’t want that??
I DO!
Please share one thing in your life that you are grateful for right this very minute! Sending you good vibes, as always… xo
Love Love Love,
Terri
I am a teacher who has been working on developing gratitude and well being skills and strategies through classroom activities. At our morning meeting the students share what they are grateful for every day.
I just discovered you through Facebook – Positively Positive. You’re very inspirational and very much needed in my life right now. Feel fearful at work in a hostile (at times) environment. I know your weekly tips will help (along with a therapist I’m going to see).
Thank you.
Welcome Jeseygirlnow (I am a jersey girl too 😉
I am so happy you are here and getting inspired <3
I have just discovered you, Terri. Wonderful. Now, I could use some individual thereapy to resolve one lingering problem…
Suz Marie-
Happy to be discovered! I hope you will now take action to find the right therapist to help you through your block because you deserve to be FREE! <3
Terri…
Thank you for all of your posts and videos. They are such an important part of my week 🙂
The practice of gratitude is something that has been so transformative in my life. Because of this, I started a website that allows people to post all of the things that they are grateful for, while seeing what people all over the world are also grateful for. My goal is to start a worldwide gratitude movement 🙂
If you would like to check it out you can go to the site directly: http://www.thegratitudejar.com
With my deepest gratitude for all of your inspiration and courage!
Marissa
Marissa-
Thank you for sharing your link I will check it out. Having the ability to be grateful no matter what is the corner stone of my work with clients and my personal success. So I understand when you say it had been transformative even though words do not seem to do it justice! Keep up the good work <3
terri cole is awesome! ;D
Thanks Jake! It warms my heart to have you here cuz I love you
Aunt T
Hey Terri, thanks for following me on twitter. I am grateful for that because I am always looking for strong, positive people to learn from.
I really have to work at not being angry and bitter and because I didn’t want to keep heading down that road I started a gratitude journal about 2 or three months ago. I agree, it really does help.
Because I was having trouble sleeping–this has been a challenging year–I decided that I was going to end every day with notes of gratitude. After I get all cozy in bed, I get out my journal and I write at least two gratitudes. I try to find at least one thing that I am grateful for that day but I also try to make a point to be grateful for the people in my life as well. Every night I write one thing I am grateful for that day and I write about one person that I am grateful to that day. The gratitudes can be as simple as seeing a cardinal in my tree or as big as someone coming to your aid.
Some days it seems hard to think of things but I make a point to find something and someone to be grateful about before I go to sleep. I know it has helped me relax during a stressful year–remembering to look for the bright spots.
Thank you and namaste, Beth
Beth-
It is amazing how focusing on gratitude can basically re-wire your brain to look for what is RIGHT in your life RIGHT now. For me active daily gratitude is the foundation for all of my happiness. Thank you for sharing your story here with us. I am so happy you are here <3
My days always go best when I make the time to journal gratitude. Excellent tip!
Thanks Hana! Mine too 😉 We get to set our intention for the day which always makes it better <3
Hey Terri!! I am grateful that I finally met you and heard you speak on Saturday. You are truly inspirational and a beautiful force of nature. I am grateful for my beautiful pregnancy and my amazing and supportive husband/partner. I am grateful for my Mom and brother and their love and support and knowing they are healthy and capable and we all have to much love and respect for each other. I am grateful to be living my life on purpose, and even when FEAR creeps up on me, I am grateful for it because I can now work through it and continue my growth and accept where I am. The list goes on! I am grateful to be alive and the miracle of my baby girl coming to me!!!! Thanks for this Xx
Yes Monica keep us posted on beautiful baby girl’s fabulous entrance!
xo
I am thankful that Bonnie directed me here and to follow you myself. I didn’t realize that I needed this excercise. And in just 2 short days I feel a little change… a little lifting of some of the negativity I feel. This morning (day 3) I “forgot” to come up with my 5 – and I missed it. I got right back to it when I got back home. Thanks! Great to meet you on Saturday.
love, lisa
Lisa-
thank you so much for sharing! So exciting to see the positive results so quick…the trick is to remember the mind blowing power of your intention!
So glad we connected through Tribal-Truth!
love love love
terri
burning sage this morning and working my gratitude muscle:
1. thankful for this body that has healed itself through healthy food and the newfound joys of movement.
2. thankful for the incredible people I have met in my life that have a profound effect on me every day.
3. thankful for having so much energy and strength to keep going forward
4. thankful for the life I have lived thus far that has gotten me right here and right now.
5. thankful for the natural world around me and I sit in awe of it listening to the birds and seeing the plants awaken from winter
Fabulous tip, Terri!! I needed this reminder right now. I am grateful for so many things in my life! I’m grateful for my loving and supportive family. I am grateful for my amazing friends. I’m also grateful to be a strong and independent woman in a society that is becoming more progressive and enlightened each and every day. I’m grateful that I have a strong body and capable mind. I’m also grateful to have overcome many obstacles and to have been strengthened by each challenge that I have faced. The list goes on and on!! 🙂
So cool Sarah to have an endless list of stuff to be grateful for and to feel those feelings as often as possible!
love love love
terri
Great video Terri! You are such a powerful speaker. Five things I am grateful for: 1) the love of my life, Nayan. 2) my loving and supportive family. 3) my community, Tribal Truth. 4) you and your love. 5) Anat graciously hosting me in NYC. And the list goes on and on and on…I am grateful to be alive and well.
Thanks Monica!
Love your list and like you if I don’t limit myself to 5 I will NEVER get out of bed LOL!
Looking forward to more pink power posse meet ups with my tribe <3
love love love
terri
Thanks for the tip reminder…
I’m grateful for my husband who provides well for the family without complaining, my boys who have brought me years of joy and learning I would never have experienced without them, my body (health) that I try to keep in homeostasis, my friends who are there to support me and my crazy ideas and finally my cats who have brought unconditional love to our home for 11 years now!
Thanks for sharing Karen! You got some healthy cats (family too lucky you!)
love love love
terri
Awesome thoughts to ponder Terri.
I’m grateful for where the universe has put me right at this very moment and for having the faith to accept where she’s brought me.
I’m grateful for the challenges and sacrifices because all of those experiences have made me stronger.
I’m grateful for having the courage to believe enough in myself to keep going in a direction that is outside the box.
I’m grateful for allowing myself to feel and express love and to not be afraid of it.
I’m grateful for the people that have reached out to me to help lift me up – who believe in my dreams with me.
my heart is smiling and I will wake up refreshed and add to my list.
xox
Well said Bon!
love love love
terri
I am grateful for the incredible help and constant support that I receive on a daily basis from you, my mentor and my family. I’m grateful that I am healthy and cancer free and I’m grateful that I got to spend the whole day out in my garden. 🙂
Hey Cate-
According to my rockin’ guru Deepak <3 Chopra communing with nature adds some $$ to your karma bank so Win Win!
love love love
terri
I am grateful for my health and the health of my daughters. My body may not be as thin or tan or perfect, but it works and that is truly something to be grateful for. Everyday when I get up I try to remember this. Tessa, you are truly inspiring<3
Oh Eileen I love that yo call me Tessa (but if it sticks in some public way you are DEAD heehee) Focusing on what you have bring you more having
focusing on what is right brings you more of the same! Simple, right?
love love love
terri
love this tip! this is my favorite one! I am grateful for you being my mentor, I am grateful for the support that my mom and dad give me especially as years go on we get closer, I am grateful for all the amazing best friends I have and soul sistas, I am grateful that I am so willing to keep seeing the light and picking myself up again no matter what, I am grateful to be sitting in this moment in a beautiful home with birds chirping and trees right outside my window.
<3
Copy that Christine (as my pal Claudia who works on a set would say!)
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tc
I am so, so grateful for my life-long friends! You know, the friends that you’ve had since you were a young child. 😉
Yes ols since we were spending Thursday nights in HS cranking Boz Scaggs and you know studying and…stuff like that 😉
love love love
tc
Was feeling a little needy. That exercise set me right. Naming 5 things I am grateful for was not hard…not hard at all.
And the more you do it-the more it becomes a habit that opens the flow to your abundance cuz it elevates your vibration (since we are all energy) and at the higher vibration you attract “like” experiences that bring you more to be grateful for!
love love love
terri
Great tip Terri! Nice biceps, too! 🙂
Why thanks Ky!
Weeeeerk!
(and yes i do work it that is!)
love love love
terri