Okay, I was just in a meeting for the Tampa Bay Technology Center, and I was talking about doing the podcast and recording it tonight, and I said, what should I talk about? And one lady said, you should talk about at least 10 things that people can use gratitude with to assist their finances. I said, what a great idea. And if I knew all of that, I'd be rich.
But anyway, just like yesterday, we're going to do this again. This time I went on to Gemini, and I said, please write 14 one sentence talking points as to why gratitude will assist your finances. I have not read any of these things, but we're about to. And welcome to the Daily Grateful.
I'm Michael Croce, and I love these things because I don't read them in advance. I just, in fact, I sat down and I typed in the prompt that they gave me, and boom, it popped up. And I didn't ask for 10. How many did I ask for?
I asked for 14. Let's see how many of them we can get done in a reasonable amount of time because I generally find myself commenting on these things, and it can go on and on till the break dawn, the party just never stops. Oh, anyway, number one, should I have a sound effect for number one? Oh.
Okay. Gratitude shifts your focus from the lack of abundance to helping you appreciate what you already have. Okay. I'm very grateful.
I had a very difficult conversation today with a gentleman that I've been doing business with, and his whole life went to total crap, and it went to crap very, very quickly. He was in the, is still in the real estate investing business, and don't believe all these stories about people say, get into real estate investing, you'll get rich. I happen to know personally, I'm not in that business, but I'm kind of in an adjunct to that I service those people, and I don't know, several of them that are in the wild market of Florida who are up the creek right now, and he owes me money, and we just had this honest talk today. He can't pay me because he has less than $100 in his checking account, and his wife has left him, took the two kids.
He's living in a house that he bought for the family that he was going to rehab. He never even got started on rehabbing it, and she up and left, and now the house is in foreclosure. So I should say to him, be grateful for your lack of abundance and appreciate what you already have. That probably doesn't sound very positive to him, but it could be, because he does have a lot.
He's got a lot more than a lot of people have, and he had one of the things he has, his skill and ability and an excellent work ethic. What happened to him financially was the market just did weird things, and he owned like seven or eight Airbnb's, and people just stopped going to him because a million people bought Airbnb's. So now he's trying to sell those off because he has to sell half of all of his properties off because of the divorce, and oh, it's a mess, but he needs to be grateful for what he has. That kind of funny feeling.
We're not going to get to all 14 of these things. Let's go to number two. Shall we? No.
Well, we're going to anyway. By appreciating your current financial situation, you're less likely to make impulsive spending decisions. That is true. When money's tight, hold on to it, and that's good, so I should be grateful for that.
I know it's just smart. It's something that you do. Let's move right along to number three. Gratitude opens up to opportunities to increase your income that you might not otherwise realize.
And that is true. When I am grateful, my brain. I don't know why I have no idea, but when I put myself, and I learned this from this guy that irritated me, I've told you the story about him, but he literally helped me a lot. But we were both in the same hospital and almost died, not at the same time.
And I saw him giving a talk about it, and it pissed me off, and then I thought about it, and then I met him at another event and told him how grateful I was for his story, and we hugged it out. But yeah, when you are feeling grateful, this is what he said. When his whole life was just falling apart, and he instituted gratitude, he started finding ways to help himself, both financially because of the business that him and his wife had stopped, because he was in the hospital dying, he didn't die, but he was in the hospital totally interested for several weeks, and they figured out another way to make it work. So yeah, feeling grateful, fosters a positive outlook, making you more motivated to achieve financial goals.
Yes. Number five, gratitude strengthens your relationship with money, leading to a more powerful spending habit. Yeah. I'll go along with that.
But, you know, what the heck? Number six, appreciating your financial resources encourages you to take better care of them. I think they're saying the same thing over and over again, avoiding unnecessary ways. Yeah, they are saying the same thing all over again.
Should I take this prompt? I'm using Gemini on this prompt, right? Let's run over real quick to chat GPT 4.0 and stick the same prompt in and see if they are a little bit more creative than Gemini has been. So we're just going to go with this and see what happens.
And it is now populating. There's a number one, improved relationships. Practicing gratitude can enhance your relationships and leading to a better networking and potential financial opportunities. Yes.
Increase productivity. When you are grateful, you are more productive. Yes. Better decision making.
Gratitude can help maintain a positive mindset, allowing for clearer, more rational financial decisions. Yes. Enhanced mental health. Gratitude reduces stress and anxiety, I hope it does, helping you stay focused to make better financial choices.
Better choices. Period. Yeah. I'll go along with that.
Number five, attraction of abundance. A grateful mindset can attract more opportunities of financial abundance into your life. Yep. That is absolutely correct.
If you set yourself up looking for abundance, you attract it. You are what you, you know, horrible, horrible book, thinking grow rich, horrible book. Everybody sing. Why is he saying that?
Because the guy was a crook. But anyway, in the book, he said you are what you think. And he was right about that. I think he was a crook.
But you are what you think. Prove financial planning, gratitude encourages mindfulness, aiding to better budgeting and financial planning. Yeah. Increase patience.
Although I need that one, grateful individuals are more patient, which can lead to better long-term investment decisions. Yes. Lower impulse spending. We've already been there.
Strengthen resilience. Yes. We handle setbacks better when we're grateful. Boosted generosity.
Now that I just let the title of that intrigues me, let's read the rest of it, practicing gratitude makes you more generous, fostering a reciprocal cycle of giving and receiving. And yes, something that we were working on at the club tonight was reaching out to the community. And right down the street, we've got a VFW hall. And it's been there since I was a kid, and I'm in my seventies now, even though I sound a lot younger.
But that place has been there. And it's right down the street from our club. And I kind of made the decision at the thing that I'm going to go down there because they have a bar there and they're all there, you know, not all them. Several people are there.
There's always cars there during the day because people are in their day drinking. Which I don't drink so. But I'm going to what we want to do with the club is we want to offer something to the members of the local VFW. And what I think that we want to offer them is free computer repair.
We'll have like one day where we're going to have a gratitude for Veterans Day. And not for the holiday, just out in the middle of nowhere, we want to be grateful for you. And we would like you all to come to the club and we will have hot dogs and all of that. We won't have beer for them.
But we'll have hot dogs and we'll invite them to come and, you know, talk about their experiences in the military and we will fix their damn computers for free because we have volunteer technicians that will do that. So that's going to spread good will for our club. So yeah, greater job satisfaction. This is the last one I'm going to read.
Grateful individuals often have higher job satisfaction reducing the likelihood of costly job changes. And changing your job can be expensive. I'll go along with that. So what I think we're trying to say here is use gratitude a lot when you are attempting to make your life better, especially with money.
It will work for you. It will do very well for you. Hey, thank you all for listening. We'll be back tomorrow.