Snippet of wisdom 56.
In this series, I select my favourite, most insightful moments from previous episodes of the podcast.
Today's snippet is from my conversation with Andrew Kap, the best-selling author of βThe last Law Of Attraction book you'll ever need to readβ.
It is about⦠gratitude.
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Listen to the full conversation with Andrew Kap in episode #312:
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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Andrew Kapp 0:00
You don't have to feel amazing. You just have to feel a little good.
Agi Keramidas 0:08
Welcome to personal development mastery podcast, and this is another snippet of wisdom where I select my favorite most insightful moments from previous episodes. Today, I have selected for you a snippet from my conversation with Andrew Kapp, who is the best selling author of the last law of attraction book you'll ever need to read. The snippet is about gratitude. Understand this very important thing about gratitude. Let's dive right in.
Andrew Kapp 0:45
Yeah, and, you know, there's, there's a couple little insidious roadblocks here that people, first of all, I guarantee, I can guarantee you, even people that are on board with the law of attraction, people, people that are on board with with personal development. I mean, look at the name of this podcast, right? Even those people, to a point, are probably sick of hearing the word gratitude, because everyone says gratitude, and it's a very loaded word and a loaded term. And to a lot of people, and I've never said this before, to a lot of people, it represents failure, and the reason it represents failure to them is because they heard about gratitude. They heard all the promises attached. They tried to do it, and like you, just articulated. They didn't get this amazing, ecstatic, wow feeling, or maybe they did the first time, and then the next day, they tried to do it. And it's almost like they were numb to it, which ate, which edits, their frustration, their uncertainty, their doubt, and then they went into a downward spiral. Thing about gratitude, like you would also hint it out here that you read from my book is, well, one Don't, don't view gratitude the way you viewed it in the past, as this broken, empty promise. And also don't view it as this required level of euphoria. You don't have to feel amazing. You just have to feel a little good. And if you can't feel a little good about your heartbeat, which really is a miracle, well then we can go a more extreme direction. Just make a list of things in your life that you have. Not even appreciate things that you have, and imagine they were taken away. So for example, right now, in this moment, somebody is listening to this or watching this on a specific device, whatever that device is, think about all the things that you do with that device. You you run your business, you check your email, maybe it's a phone. So you call people, you text, you communicate with the world. You have access to everything, maybe of your dating apps. So it's the key to your love life. If someone went and they stole that device from you and you couldn't replace it for another month, how miserable would you be knowing that it is there? Then, therefore it needs to be at least a little grateful like you know what this device is, awesome. The keyboard works. The internet works. I've got all the apps in front of me. My life is so much better because I have access to these things, to say nothing of body parts. You know, I think everyone knows what it's like to stub their toe and have maybe a painful toe for an afternoon. Like, you know, you break your toe, or you break your foot or your leg and you're on crutches for a couple of weeks or a couple of months, that just it's it's miserable. Think, like, be grateful for your healthy legs. Be grateful for your spine, even if you have back pain. Like, so you can see how excited I get about this. What I'm actually doing here is I'm doing an unintentional gratitude Blitz, where I start going down a list of things to be grateful for, and you almost get caught up in it, like it is if you actually not even trying to force emotion, but if you actually think about it intellectually and logically about the things in your life, it becomes really difficult to not even have a hint of gratitude, and all you need is a hint of appreciation, not a buckets worth or an Ocean's worth, but just a hint. And you are on your way. And real quick, if I can AGI, like, because you mentioned car, anyone who thinks that their car is horrible, like, let's pretend it runs at least, literally, try to walk to work tomorrow. Go walk to work tomorrow instead. And like, even though that car, even the paint job doesn't look good, and even if the air conditioner doesn't work, like, come on, how you not grateful for that car? Try walking to work. You will love that car, which, by the way, will then open the door to a new and better car for you and the money that you need to get it.
Agi Keramidas 4:20
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