whatever the problems are;
when you do this exercise
you start to go in a different direction,
you start to be grateful for all
the things that you feel good about.
Gratitude is absolutely the way
to bring more into your life.
Every man knows, that when his wife's
appreciating him for the little things he does,
what does he wanna do?
He wants to do more.
It's always about the appreciation.
It pulls things in, it attracts support.
I've said for many years that whatever we
think about and thank about, we bring about.
Because that's that feeling that
you have to have, you know,
and so for me, there's been such a
powerful exercise every morning
to get up and say "thank you".
And then I start running through
what I'm grateful for
as I'm going to brush my teeth
and do the things I do in the morning.
And I'm not just thinking about
that I'm doing some road routine
but I'm putting it out there
and I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude.
As soon as you start to feel differently
about what you already have,
you will start to attract more
of the good things,
more of the things you can
be grateful for.
Because, if you look around and say,
"well look, I don't have the car I want,
I don't have the house I want,
I don't have the health I want,
I don't have the spouse I want..."
Back up. Back up.
Those are all the things
that you don't want.
Focus on what you already have
that you're grateful for.
And it might be,
you have the eyes to watch this.
It might be the clothes that you have.
Yes, you might prefer something else
and you might get something else pretty soon
if you start feeling grateful
for what you have.
I think everybody goes
through times when they say,
"oh man, things aren't working right"
or "things are going bad".
And there were some things
going on in my family...
and I found a rock.
And I'm just sitting here holding this rock,
you might see me carrying around.
I found a rock.
I stuck it in my pocket.
And I said, "you know what,
every time I touch this rock
I'm gonna think of something
that I'm grateful for.
And so every morning, when I get up
in the morning, I pick it up off the dresser
and put it in my pocket,
and I go through the things
that I am grateful for.
At night, what do you do?
You empty your pocket
and there it is again.
And I've had some different
experiences with that.
I've had some amazing
experiences.
I had a guy from South Africa.
He saw me dropping it.
He said "what is that"?
What's that?
I explained it to him, so we started
calling it the gratitude rock.
Gratitude rock.
Two weeks later I got an e-mail
from him from South Africa.
He said, "my son is dying
from a rare disease,
it's a type of hepatitis".
He said, "would you send me
three gratitude rocks?"
There were just rocks I find
off the street, you know,
so I said, "sure".
I had to make sure that
the rocks were very special.
And so I went out to the stream,
looked, picked up the right rocks
and sent them off to him.
Four or five months later
I get an e-mail from him.
He said, "my son's better,
now he's doing terrific"
and he said, "you need to
know something"
he said, "we've sold over
a thousand rocks at $10 a piece
as gratitude rocks, and we raised all this
money for charity, thank you very much".
And so it's very important to be in
an attitude of gratitude, as I call it.
Another thing that I would suggest
that you do right now to turn your life around,
and this is so huge,
that I can't find the words to describe
just how powerful this can be for you...
I took the visualization process
from the Apollo programme
and instituted it during the 1980's
and 90's into the Olympic programme.
It was called "Visual Motor Rehearsal".
When you visualize,
then you materialize.
And the interesting thing
about the mind is
we took Olympic athletes
and then hooked them up to
sophisticated bio feedback equipment.
And had them run