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Gratitude Unlocked: 1/7: Stop Using Thankfulness Like A Feeling & Start Using It As A Fuel. #MakingMovesMonday · Dr. Derek H. Suite MD - The SuiteSpot

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: You've heard the word gratitude a thousand times, haven't you?
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Be thankful, count your blessings, keep a gratitude journal.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: We've all heard it so many times that it's becoming like background noise.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: The truth is a lot of us just treat gratitude like a decoration, something you add when life looks good, something you say at the right moment.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: But I see it a little differently with the work that I do.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: I sit with so many people in various kinds of roles.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: World-class athletes, executives, soldiers, folks who've lost loved ones, those facing tremendous illness, legal issues, the kind of pressure that would break most people.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what I've learned over the years in my work?
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Is that what separates those who recover and rebound and are resilient, those who don't spiral, don't get crushed, is gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude, not the hashtag type of gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about a kind of gratitude that rewires your brain to stay steady, strong, and firm when everything else is shaking around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That kind of power through the most unlikely thing you're gonna hear today.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Derek Sweet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a board certified psychiatrist, I'm a performance strategist, and uh I'm a student of that space where science, soul, and success come together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this week we are unlocking gratitude, not just as a soft skill, but as a performance medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: A kind of performance medicine that treats the mind, the body, and the soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you don't want to miss this because this is the kind of information that will help you move through whatever kind of stress, challenge, obstacle you're facing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when you really understand gratitude, it changes how you handle pressure, how you process pain, and how you find your purpose.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude is a game changer when you understand it, it has unlimited power, and they don't teach us this in school.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: You have to kind of know this or happen into it through experience.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: The word gratitude comes from the Latin gratia.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what that means?
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  SPEAKER_00: It means grace, it means favor or gift.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Greeks called it charis.
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  SPEAKER_00: The invisible current that connects people and connects purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the scriptures, you know, this is about science, soul, and success, so we're going there.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: The scriptures remind us that this is the day that the Lord has made.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: We need to be thankful and we need to rejoice and be glad in it.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 118 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not about pretending everything is perfect, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about practicing perspective, it's a mindset that says, I'm still here, I am still growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can find a way to have joy in the middle of what I'm facing right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the power of gratitude, and when you're walking in it, man, you are more invincible than you think.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: But don't get it twisted.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Today is Making Moves Monday, and Monday is the time we all get tested, don't we?
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  SPEAKER_00: On what our walk is all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to know if you're really gonna test who you are, it's usually Monday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why we call Monday Making Moves Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Monday will test your mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna either start reactive or you're gonna start intentional.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how we say it in sports.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't want to be behind the eight ball when you wake up on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know how you make sure that's not the case?
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a heart filled with gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude is how you start with power and not pressure.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you wake up and your first thought is thank you, you're not being sentimental.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're calibrating, you're setting your mind, you're taking control, you're flipping your brain from survival mode to strategy mode.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what gratitude does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not about oh my god, oh we're gonna have to fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, you know what, Lord?
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  SPEAKER_00: I am thankful for what I got.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am thankful that I opened these two gifts this morning, my eyes.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: I am thankful that I can get up and I get to go to this job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful that I have this issue that I'm going to get stronger by overcoming it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful you're flipping your brain from survival mode to strategy mode before you even leave to bed.
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  SPEAKER_00: That one act of gratitude lowers your stress hormones.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is all in the science.
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  SPEAKER_00: Practicing gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people who practice gratitude have lower stress hormones.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have more dopamine in their brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the reward chemical.
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  SPEAKER_00: They feel better.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Their focus is also better because they have more pinephrine, more acetylcholine, more of the transmitters, the neurotransmitters that helps them be powerful as they go through the day.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a pre-workout for your mind to practice gratitude before you even get into your schedule, before you lift your schedule, lift your spirit with gratitude.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, gratitude is not going to erase the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude is not going to get rid of the challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude doesn't erase the grind, it reframes it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the power of gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: It turns what is draining you into the thing that drives you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It steadies your breathing when life starts getting loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you're practicing it and you're moving in gratitude, it gives meaning to any move you're gonna make.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, gratitude gives meaning to the moves you have to make.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of my favorite authors, she's no longer with us, Melody Beattie, wrote it this way, one of my favorite poems on gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: She put it this way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It turns what we have into enough and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, think about that kind of power.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's just transformative.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I mean when I say gratitude is not weak, it's transformative.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't just change your attitude, it changes your brain chemistry.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a doctor, trust me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you practice gratitude, you're not just changing your attitude, you're changing your chemistry.
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  SPEAKER_00: It upgrades how you move, how you think, and how you interact with the world when you are practicing gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the move on making move Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before you check your phone in the mornings, before you make that first call, before the first noise enters, pause for 10 seconds and just say this.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just say this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm grateful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the breath in my lungs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for another chance to go at it again today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for another chance to grow with whatever I'm dealing with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the challenge that's in front of me because that's where my growth lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do those things in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be grateful for something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then move.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: Move like someone who already has what they need to win today because they're already thankful.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude is not making you soft, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's making you stable.
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  SPEAKER_00: It keeps your power clean, and when you start your week like this with gratitude on Monday, every move you make comes from strength, not stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guarantee you, practice it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Try it today.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Walk and move in gratitude.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: You got 10 fingers?
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  SPEAKER_00: I dare you, before you get out to bed, think of 10 things you're grateful for.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: And if you can't think of 10 things, and you have 10 fingers, be grateful for each one of them.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: I am challenging you to practice gratitude and see how it changes your mind this week.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let that be your first move today.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, or good night, depending on where you're listening to me.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's all about gratitude on making moves Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just part one.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow we go deeper on Take Action Tuesday.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Love and blessings.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: If this meant something to you, if you know someone who could use this message on being thankful, finding joy in the thanks, and power in gratitude, if you think this will help them make a move, send it.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: All right now.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: Love and blessings.