Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - One From The Vault - The Evolution of Gratitude - Episode 28

Episode Date: June 7, 2024

One from the vault of the earlier Rise Up With Dragon Show. This short 5 minute episode exposes the secret to my Rise Up Great Morning Routine in capturing the sensitive and prescious moment when we wake up and move from unconscious to conscious and begin claiming control of our reality by claiming control of the narrative in our minds about the day ahead. So simple and so powerful. This podcast episode is available on both Apple and Spotify It’s time to play big, and reclaim control as the dominant forces and creators of your reality. Enjoy this podcast on both spotify and apple platforms. YOUTUBE EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GALDzFCBo5M ***** Connect With Dr. JC: https://zez.am/makessense Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makessensepodcast  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcdoornick Instagram: @drjcdoornick #RISEUPWITHDRAGON #PERSONALGROWTH #sharonlechter #financialfreedom  #dancewiththedevil #richdadpoordad #makessensepodcast #gratitude Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Makes sense. This is the evolution of gratitude. A crucial and critical part of my morning routine is to take control of that fragile moment when we move from unconscious to conscious, that moment where we first open our eyes. In my book, I go over this in depth, but the trick to taking command of your morning

is to claim control of your thoughts in that fragile space as your brain, your intel processor, looks to boot up yesterday's program. You see, yesterday's program intends to provide another mediocre day controlled by the same things that held you back then. And it's not your fault. It's not your brain's fault. It's just the way you're wired. You just need to know that your brain is going to boot up what it knows and it doesn't know anything about the future. It just knows about the past. So in other words, yesterday, anything that happened yesterday or before that no longer applies because it's today. How do I do this? Real simple, but profound. Gratitude. Simply catch that moment when you open your eyes and say these words. Thank you.

In your half-conscious state, that first level of gratitude and saying thank you is focused on the simple basics. The breath in your lungs, the beat in your heart, the sight in your eyes, the sounds that you can hear and the smells that you can smell. Or maybe even you just recognize, hey, I just got to redo another 24. This places a pause on your boot up of yesterday's program, and it inserts a new upgrade and theme to the day. Yesterday's program starts to say, hey, wait a second, something's going on here. We must wait. Gratitude is the superhigh way to the present moment where you focus only on what you have, not what you had or have not. as you move further towards consciousness, carrying this theme with you, you evolve that state of gratitude to its next deeper, more meaningful stage. You recognize things like family or your partner.

I like to roll over, give my wife a kiss. My wife is chicken, as you may know, give her a kiss, and I'll actually take my gratitude and I'll pass it on to her and I'll say, I'm thankful for you. I love you and I appreciate you. That's another state of gratitude. You've got to pay it forward. I might even consider in this deeper level the roof over my head, the water that comes out of my shower, the food in my fridge, the fact that I have a fridge, etc. Then it continues. You move about and continue to evolve that state of gratitude even further where you build on this theme.

and you allow the evolution of your gratitude to start expanding all the way to your empathy for others and the appreciation of anything as it is part of everything. Obstacles, challenges, we know that they're the way, the appreciation of the blessings of your potential and your possibilities for greatness, taking note of the unpredictable nature and value of time, giving you the fierce urgency to act now. That's important. Recognizing in gratitude that you have 24 hours, another gift that redo, but you don't know whether or not it's your last. So you take fierce urgency to act now. And then you realize in gratitude, I'm grateful for the fact that I can take fierce urgency and claim control of my

life right now. All of this, all of this amazing stuff because you simply took that precious little moment when you woke up and started your day and you went from eyes closed to eyes open and said, thank you. Well, thank you. I'm grateful for this opportunity right now to be with you and excited what will happen in all of your lives if you begin this process today. And like I love to say, I wake up every day and I run this structure. And what it does is it gives me the foolish impression that this day is going to be amazing. And the reason why I do that, because it's foolish to think that this day is not going to be amazing. So choose your foolish. Makes sense.