BRX Pro Tip: Combat Negative Thinking with Gratitude
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips, Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, do you have some sort of operating discipline or some sort of strategy or tactic that you employ when you catch yourself kind of being down on yourself or negative about something?
Lee Kantor: I think that the first place to go whenever you’re in that kind of dark mental place and negative thinking starting to permeate into, you know, your day-to-day is to lean into gratitude. I think that negative thinking can cloud your judgment. It can drain your energy. And it can definitely affect your mental well-being.
Lee Kantor: So, gratitude, on the other hand, is almost kind of the miracle cure for all of that stuff. It’s a proven antidote that shifts your focus away from what’s wrong to all the things that are right. So, by leaning into gratitude, you can reframe your mindset, you can reduce your stress, you can combat that negativity.
Lee Kantor: And here’s some things you can do if you are in that kind of negative mindset and you want to try to become more grateful. Number one, you can just start a gratitude journal. Just start writing things that you’re grateful down. If you do this on a regular basis, a lot of people do it first thing in the morning or they do it last thing at night, just find that one good thing that happened and focus in on that.
Lee Kantor: Number two, focus in on all the positive that’s around you. I mean, we take for granted so many things. We take for granted we have a roof over our head, we have food to eat, we have clean air, clean water. All of these things, there’s plenty of people on this planet, that’s their goal for the day to get that, and we have it in abundance where we live.
Lee Kantor: So, it’s one of those things that we’re not focused in on all the gifts and all the miracles that are around us that are helping us live this really affluent life. We’re focused in on sometimes some of this negative stuff, or we become envious of what other people have, rather than focusing in on all we have.
Lee Kantor: And number three, and this is something that is a pro tip in terms of just relationship building in your business and in your family life, is, just tell more people why you appreciate them. Gratitude is not about ignoring challenges or pretending everything’s perfect. It’s just finding that balance by acknowledging what’s good amidst any type of difficulty.
Lee Kantor: Don’t sleep on telling more people you appreciate them because people don’t feel appreciated. And the more you can appreciate people and tell them you appreciate them, the deeper those relationships are going to be, and the more impact you’re going to be able to make in your family, and your community, and in your mental health.
