[S43] How to be grateful for what you have and still want more

Send us Fan Mail   This week’s episode is a response to a great question I received on Instagram: how can we be grateful for what we have if we also want more? The answer is incredibly important for anyone who wants to lead a more intentional and fulfilling life today AND create more success in the future. There are several interesting things to consider and I hope you enjoy considering them together with me! Listen on:    Here’s a summary of what the full episode includes. Why is it so hard to feel grateful while wanting more? We mistakenly believe that change can only come from discontent… we collectively hold this belief that only if we’re absolutely miserable can we muster up any motivation to create change in our lives. This is clearly BS - why would it even be true? And yet it’s so deep ingrained in our culture that most people just take it as truth rather than something they can change. We also mistakenly think that if we accept our current situation then it means we don’t truly want anything different… we equate accepting our situation with settling. This is BS too and it comes from thinking in terms of duality: we think we have to choose this or that. Things are either black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. We can either have happiness now or suffer now and have happiness later. I invite you to challenge this: why on Earth couldn’t you have happiness both now AND later? Gratitude is the most powerful starting place ever.  If you want to create something different or more in your life, being grateful for and at peace with your current situation is absolutely the best place to start from. Here’s why. → Feeling grateful for what you have brings you into the present moment, and the present moment is the best place to be. It’s the only place that actually exists. Plus being present in the moment means that your energy is focused on what you’re doing rather than scattered all over the timeline, some of it thinking about the past and some of it worrying about the future. → Feeling grateful helps you accept ALL of your current situation, even the bits that don’t ever end up on your gratitude list. This means that you stop resisting what is, give up the fight against what you don’t want. As you relax into what you already have and start finding more and more to appreciate in your current situation, you become energetically more powerful than ever. → Feeling grateful helps you become more trusting - in yourself and in your path. If you don’t trust that you’ll be ok you’ll be unwilling to make tough decisions or to step into the unknown… both of which are likely n