Create Your Ultimate Life with Gratitude – A5 – Part Three

 

Happy Wednesday! I hope that you had an ultimate Tuesday!

Let’s review a couple vital pieces before we continue with A5, okay?

• Your life is meant to be ultimate.
• It’s up to you to determine what you need and what you want in your life and as your life in order for you to declare that it is “ultimate.”
• By living with gratitude, you WILL create your ultimate life!

On Monday, I introduced you to A5 (which is derived from The Bergstrom Method) and its first “fifth” – Accept.

Yesterday, I gave you the second “fifth” which is Adjust.

When acceptance occurs, adjustment begins.

Today, I am giving you the third “fifth” to the formula which is: Adapt.

Once we accept something into our conscious thinking, we are admitting that it is a real thing and that it is happening. Because we accept, we are able to adjust our thinking to align our thoughts with the desired life results we wish to experience. Once we adjust our thinking, we begin to adapt to our new life circumstances, which are and always have been the products of our thoughts.

It can be challenging to adapt to a different lifestyle. But when you consider all of the components that you want in and as your ultimate life, the motivation to adapt based on adjusting your thinking becomes your guiding force.

Adapting to your ultimate lifestyle requires the first two “fifths.” When thinking consciously, we can recognize the times during our creative process that we begin thinking thoughts that do not align with our ultimate-desired manifestations. Because we are thinking consciously, we can adjust our thoughts to realign with what we ultimately want. If we are unaware or not thinking consciously, we will not know that we are literally thinking ourselves out of whatever it is that we want.

Adaptation is a change in perception. While we are living each day, we are actively adjusting our attitudes and outlooks. Where you may normally become aggravated or frustrated, you can adjust how you feel. You can consciously think about those situations and adapt to your new thought process by activating your Center of Gratitude. Because you adapt, your outcome changes and thus, your perception of what used to aggravate and frustrate you is now completely different.

Adjust every attitude, with gratitude.

Gratitude is the force that we can all use to immediately adjust every attitude. For example, consider having to stop at red light after red light. Where we may typically find hitting every red light aggravating, we can consciously think and deem these instances as “stop-portunities.”

A “stop-portunity” is a time of pause to consciously think about what we are grateful for. Make it fun and play The Gratitude Game at every “stop-portunity!” By the time you finally reach your destinations, you will feel so wonderful and so fulfilled that whatever is about to take place will reflect and further your wonderful feelings.

Don’t think so? Think about the opposite. You hit every red light, get increasingly angry with each light and by the time you arrive, all you want to do is explode. Yeah – that’s an awesome way to feel; NOT! The next time you arrive at a red light, instead of looking at your phone or returning text messages, allow yourself to be present in the moment by playing The Gratitude Game. Don’t forget – the second you feel great, you are adapting your lifestyle to this awesome feeling! Revel in it!

Accept. Adjust. Adapt.

The fourth “fifth” is released tomorrow! Stick with me and stick with A5. By this weekend, you’ll have a specific guide to creating your ultimate life with gratitude. It is going to become so evident to you that when you implement these five “fifths” you’ll create your WHOLE, ultimate life!

See you tomorrow!

 

The time for happiness is NOW.

The time for joy is ALWAYS.

The time for you to create your ultimate life, has come. Join me! We’ll do it TOGETHER!

Johnny Bergstrom, Msc.D, AMDA

The Gratitude Guru

 

 

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Gratitude – The Ultimate Power

The Power of Gratitude

The Ultimate Power is the force to be reckoned with. The thing with Gratitude is that if one is ungrateful, the reckoning comes in the form of their Life Results. As human beings, we have been conditioned to understand a reckoning to be a punishment or a consequence for actions that have transpired. With this in mind, we begin to understand the consequence of lacking gratitude or, essentially, being ungrateful.

When we think thoughts, we are customizing the life results we wish to experience. When we pair our thoughts with passionate feelings, or feelings that are sincerely and fully felt, we are expediting the arrival time of the manifestation or physical experience of those people, circumstances or “life results.”

If a person thinks grateful thoughts and feels the wonderful sensations related to gratitude, they are powerfully creating that which will manifest into physical form. The longer and more focused energy that is spent thinking a specific thought that is paired with a constant, committed feeling, the faster that person experiences similar, “like” life results that are in line with what and how they have been thinking and feeling. While some specific manifestations may take some time (or not – there is not a definite formula), living in gratitude means that while one may wait for a specific request, they will absolutely enjoy living day to day until they are in possession of whatever they specifically desire – as long as they are aware.

Together, we CAN change the world!

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The Gratitude Jar

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Today’s post is all about gratitude, of course!

However, today’s post is a video post. On our YouTube channel we have posted a video of our Gratitude Guru, Dr. Johnny Bergstrom, giving his tips and tricks on getting the whole family involved in giving thanks.

Click here to view The Gratitude Guru’s video post – The Gratitude Jar

Enjoy the video, subscribe to our channel, and most importantly, SHARE the video with your family and friends and go public with your gratitude! This is a GLOBAL effort so let’s keep our focus on not only giving thanks but continuously looking for more and more to be grateful for!

Together, we can change the world!

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Using the Power of Gratitude for Good

Part of harnessing the Power of Gratitude is to understand the most vital component of Gratitude; the Law of Attraction.

A great way to understand the Law is this: what you think about, you bring about.

Using the Power of Gratitude for good seems like a no-brainer. Through various social media outlets, questionable behavior among famous people and others gets people talking and then the Media follow the trail of what and who people are talking about, aiming to cover the “news.”  Except it isn’t news at all – it’s all that has been attracted and manifested. I’ll explain.

When we think about what we want, powerful frequencies that our thoughts operate on are sent out to rearrange our reality to manifest our thoughts into physical, real experiences in our lives. Thus, what we think about, we bring about. Those famous people think about fame and fortune and they behave in ways that get people talking, get the attention directed at them and then once they have the attention of the masses, the cycle repeats. The next item that gets people talking is released, people talk, attention is given and ‘the powers that be’ figure out a way to make said attention profitable.

I am writing this post today about using one’s power for good. There are plenty of famous people who use their power for good, but they don’t have nearly the same traction with social media as those who behave questionably. The good deeds do “trend” but not nearly as much or as highly as those that spark debates or controversy. Why!?

Now, let’s talk about you. Let’s talk about your social media accounts. Let’s talk about what you post.

What you think about, you bring about. Take a look at your timelines and tweets. Do you post a lot of negative things? Is your life getting any better than it used to be or are you just living another day in a similar way to how you lived yesterday? What we pay attention to, multiplies. So if we are paying more attention to the lives of others and what everyone else is doing, how can we possibly make our lives better, happier or “ultimate?”

Each day, multiple times per day, I make a concerted effort to stop myself from instinctively clicking “share” or “post” without a second look or thought about whether or not I really want what’s about to go out into the digital abyss, “out there.” One of my considerations is the effect that my posts or shares will have on my viewers. What emotions am I trying to get others to experience through my posts and does this post effectively communicate my intention?

We all have the power to use gratitude for good. A suggestion for deciding what to share and what to ignore, unfollow or delete, is this – what did the post make you feel when you first read it? Is that emotion something you think you should prevent others from feeling or something you should provoke others to feel? Everyone loves feeling happy, uplifted, joyful, optimistic, included and grateful. Post what you feel grateful to have seen  on your feeds  and allow others to see your gratitude. Share it with the hashtag #sograteful or #thanksforthesmile or any other creative tag you can think of to group such great posts together!

Together, we can further the Mission of Global Gratitude and include everyone else who is not yet part of it. Get grateful. Become aware of what you’re grateful for that you experience in your life, allow yourself to feel consumed with great feelings and “share” how great you feel with everyone in social media land. #makegratitudegoviral #gratitudeisglobal

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The Power of Gratitude

 

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Peace v. Stress

In Gratitude, one finds peace. In Gratitude, one finds a disposal of stressors. In Gratitude, one finds even more to be grateful for due to the absence of negative stress in their life.

True, telling most people to calm down is not usually received well. There really is not a nice, sugar-coated way to tell someone that they are stressed out to the max, to the point that it is stressing you out; when all you’re doing is sitting next to them.

Some of us live our lives at 145 km per hour (that’s about 90 mph for you folks in the States) and while that may work for them, it doesn’t work for me. I need peace. I need tranquility. I need calm. From when I was a young child, throughout my teen years and until about 27 – I had serious issues with managing stress. I was completely incapable. My stressors beat me up on all levels – emotional, physical and mental. They made me very ugly and I lived in a constant state of panic. I worried all the time about everything in my life, about things in others’ lives and mostly about things that I had absolutely no control over.

I had bosses who tried to micromanage me no matter where I worked, I allowed myself to get sucked into office politics and I took that element of my work home with me. I had stomach aches every single day to the point that I feared going into work because I knew who I had to deal with when I arrived. Every. Single. Day.

I sought solace everywhere I could that was anywhere other than where I was and when my lunch break ended I always wondered what would happen if I just didn’t go back. My work ethic is founded on fairness, equality, kindness and praise. Corporations today have it backwards, for the most part. Whether it’s a law practice, pizza joint or a coffee shop – it seems everyone has an agenda that usually results in hurting everyone, including them! Treat everyone equally; “be kind to one another” as Ellen says and tell people how great they are. They had to be great in order for them to be hired, right?

None of this makes any kind of sense to me. Why would anyone want to go to work to have to be near someone or multiple people who make their life a living hell?

But then, in time, the solutions become clear. That is, they are clear to those willing to see and acknowledge them.

First and foremost, one must be willing to see and acknowledge oneself for who he or she is – and most people are not willing to do this so the rest of this information that I’m about to share with you usually falls on deaf ears.

If you can see that no matter what direction your life has taken, who has come into it, who has left it, etc. – if you can see that the only constant factor in every single circumstance is you – continue reading. If you cannot see or accept this fact, continue reading – maybe you’ll change your mind.

One’s stress levels are born, live, breathe and grow within oneself – all by oneself – because of oneself. No one can make you feel an emotion you are not willing to feel. But you sure can. If someone can see what your vulnerabilities and weaker points are, they can highlight them and poke at them until their wear and tear on you is visible. They have taken control, you have surrendered and you’re the only one who cares – because you’re the only one suffering through your own stressors.

We are magnificent human beings and because we are “being” all the time, we are susceptible to the attempts of others to try to take our reigns and guide us where they want us to go. However, we are so magnificent that we can choose to engage those stressors or we can choose to kill them. Makes sense, right? If the stressors are born within, grow within, fester within, thrive within – then certainly we can kill them from within, right?

You can kill your stressors by just deciding that they don’t exist. Within minutes of deciding that you are not going to allow yourself to react in ways you seemingly always have, you kill a stressor. There are tons of those little boogers so just killing one is not killing one and done – you have to maintain your fight. If stress has eaten at you and has shaped the life you currently see as yours, you have quite the fight ahead.

Yet, if you can see yourself as the constant factor throughout your life and understand what I’ve told you, you have all the power you need to begin to change the game, take back your life, build it on a solid foundation of gratitude and you can finally get yourself a “peace” in your ultimate life. Peace is born within, grows within, thrives from within and as long as you nurture your peace like you nurtured your stressors, your peace will consume you and your life will be completely different. Give it a try!

Go have the best day of your life!

Make it ULTIMATE!

 

 

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Love Starts With Gratitude

It’s February and that means it’s the month of LOVE! Today’s message is simple.

One cannot experience the “ultimate” feelings of Gratitude without experiencing the feelings associated with love. To be grateful is to feel love for something or someone – a life circumstance, etc.

To get yourself centered in love, right now, just make five notes. If you’re reading this on your phone, open your “Notes” app and just quickly jot down five things you love. If you have a sticky note or some paper in the immediate area, you can literally write it down. When you jot down what you love, gain a visual perspective of that which you’re writing down and feel the feelings of love you experience when you interact with that person or circumstance.

To show you how easy it is, I’ll give you five of my own:

• I am so grateful for temperatures in the sixties with clear, sunny skies!
• I am so grateful for my family and all the love we share!
• I am so grateful for smiles that greet me, words of encouragement and well wishes!
• I am so grateful for surprises in the mail that remind me I am loved and thought of!
• I am so grateful for my GPS – it helps guide my every day to being ULTIMATE!

What does a GPS have to do with it? It’s not the GPS you’re thinking of – it’s my Gratitude Practice Solution and I have examples on my website, which you can absolutely use and alter to make your own! Having a GPS is just the trick to getting where one wants to go at the fastest rate and a GPS that has an Ultimate Life as its destination STARTS with GRATITUDE!

 

THANK YOU!!

 

 

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