Have Thanksgiving with Gratitude

Greetings, Gratitude Ambassadors!

As we begin a new week with Gratitude, I wanted to share one of my favorite podcast episodes with you from The Center of Gratitude Radio Show, which is about how to guarantee your happiness during the Thanksgiving gatherings with your families and friends. What you bring to the table is crucial to ensuring an outcome that you’re grateful for and happy with. Take a listen, it’s just about 15 minutes and have a grateful day!

Dr. B

itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-of-gratitude-radio-show/id1439234054

Happily Self-Centered in Gratitude

ALERT!

BEING SELF-CENTERED IS NOT A BAD THING!

Wait…what? It’s okay for me to be self-centered? Explain yourself, Gratitude Guru!

Well…sort of.

This is one of those mind-opening moments I refer to in other areas of my upcoming book. The ignorant would say that being self-centered is baloney and so wrong of me to encourage.

Yeah, yeah, yeah – shh; I’m imparting wisdom here.

Self-Centered, as it’s used by me, literally means being centered in oneself – or focused on what one wants for oneself, to ensure that one is taken care of and that their individual needs are being met. After all, you are the only one responsible for you and ensuring your wonderful, ultimate life; it seems only fitting that you should be free to be as self-centered as you see fit!

How often do others ask you what you want? What you need? What you would like to do? Your opinion on how you feel you’re being treated? Whether or not you’re happy in your individual relationships with various people in your life?

When was the last time you asked yourself those questions?

To be happily self-centered is to constantly check “within” to ensure that you’re okay – that’s all. Hopefully, you’ll be more than okay but for the meantime, your evolution in becoming self-centered is what I’m after. I want you to understand the power that you have, already inside you. Everything that you want and desire is already yours – it’s time for you to be happily self-centered in Gratitude!

 

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

 

 

© Global Gratitude Group. 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Create Your Ultimate Life with Gratitude – A5 – Part Five!

 

Happy Friday! I hope that you had an ultimate Thursday!

We made it! This is the final “fifth” of A5!

Thank you so much for sticking with me and for sticking with A5! I have spent countless hours pouring my extensive knowledge of the power of gratitude into this summarized, small-bite approach (from The Bergstrom Method) so that you may find it to be similar to that of a great meal; packed with flavor, savory, surprising, delicate yet robust, and most importantly – one that you’ll always remember and want to tell the world about!

Before the final “bite” of this five-course feast, I’d like to reflect on the other “bites” we have enjoyed together:

• The first course was Accept.
• The second course was Adjust.
• The third course was Adapt.
• The fourth course was Aspire.

If you’ve missed the other courses or enjoyed them all equally but can’t quite recall the specifics of each, they are all available on The Gratitude Guru’s blog.

And now, for the final “bite” of this five-course feast, I give you…: Achieve!

Achieve is the ultimate outcome. This final piece of A5 is what the other courses create. Earlier this week, I promised you that by this weekend, you would have a solid plan to follow to create your ultimate life with Gratitude. Here it is:

• Gratitude is the universal emotion we all feel and understand to be a great feeling.
• It feels great to be grateful!
• The first thing we do to manifest our ultimate lives is Think. Depending on how you feel at any given moment determines which of your life results actually manifest.
• By consciously thinking, you can activate your Center of Gratitude and begin to summon your awareness of what you’re grateful for.
• By consciously increasing the great feelings generated by Gratitude, your thoughts that follow will be thoughts produced from great feelings. These great feelings will begin attracting more great things for you to enjoy so you can continue feeling grateful and indefinitely happy!
• Gratitude is the gateway that will grant you permanent access to the highly sought-after place where life is lived ultimately! The place where happiness is abundant; where prosperity is unlimited; where every dream comes true; where there is only love with no mention of hate; Gratitude is the gateway to ultimate everything!

To create your ultimate life with Gratitude:

• Accepting that Gratitude has given you everything you have and will continue to give you everything you want, is the key.
• Adjusting your thinking so it is so deeply rooted in Gratitude that it becomes your go-to emotion will guide you in creating your ultimate life!
• Adapting your lifestyle to thinking and acting from your Center of Gratitude will help you adjust your thinking so you begin with gratitude.
• Aspire to share your gratitude with the world. Make your MULO and get specific about what you want in and as your life! Give thanks to all you meet; for all you have; and the awesomeness of your life will unfold before your eyes!
• Achieve your ultimate life by; being centered in gratitude; thinking grateful thoughts; feeling grateful feelings; expressing your gratitude to others from all they do that enhances your life; and consciously observe how the gratitude you feel and exhibit for your life impacts the lives of others.

That last sentence is the ultimate component. When you feel grateful and you allow those feelings to propel you into giving thanks to another human being, you can see your impact. If you look into their eyes, you can see that their light from deep within has been sparked by your actions, your gratitude; you will know that you just made the world a better place because you just changed someone else’s life by adjusting your own!

I am beyond grateful that you’ve stuck with me, that you have read my perspective on the power of gratitude and that you now have a bigger and better understanding of the importance of Gratitude; one that differs from the one you may have had prior to reading my blog. If there is someone you know who would benefit from my blog, please share this with them! I love hearing about the impact I have on the lives of others and if I’ve had one on you, please tell me about it! I see all of your comments and thank you for making our world one, ultimate place!

I wish you every joy, every happiness and of course – your ULTIMATE LIFE!

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

 

 

© Global Gratitude Group. 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Create Your Ultimate Life with Gratitude – A5 – Part Four

 

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

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.

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

When acceptance occurs, adjustment begins.

Yesterday, I gave 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.

Today is all about the fourth “fifth” which is: Aspire.

To aspire to create an ultimate life with gratitude, you have to know what it is you’re aspiring to achieve, right? You’ve seen in previous posts where I mention the creation process. The act of conscious thinking is what drives the creation process.

What you think about, you bring about.

Because we bring about what we think about, adjusting your thinking from subconscious to conscious thinking will allow you to consciously adjust or adapt your perception of the life results you are experiencing, based on what you have been thinking!

If you aspire to create your ultimate life with gratitude, you must get clear about what you want in and as your ultimate life! You need an outline! I created this for me and I’m so thrilled to share it with you! It’s called The MULO: My Ultimate Life Outline.

The MULO Practice comes from The Bergstrom Method. To begin, we should all make a MULO and revise it as often as possible initially and then at the beginning of each month thereafter. This is a Practice that will never be “done” for being done would mean that one is deceased. This is a Practice that I personally do in order to create my ultimate life! Once you get rolling, there’s no telling how far you will allow your mind to wander and the possibilities of the ultimate life you will create are infinite! (I think you just discovered what your weekend plans are!)

Use the following questions to prompt yourself. You can always edit, you can always revise, you can always add your own questions and you can always make a new MULO, as long as you are thinking consciously. Grab some paper and a pen and get started!

What do you want?

• What kind of home(s) do you want to have?
• Do you want to travel? Where?
• How do you want to travel? By plane, bus, train, car, private aircraft, private yacht?
• How much money do you want to see in your bank accounts? Pick a number.
• Where do you want to vacation?
• What is your life calling you to do with your time?
• What do you LOVE to do?
• Where are you when you are your happiest?
• Do you want a family?
• Do you want children?
• Do you want a better body?
• Do you want to be healthy and fit?
• Do you want to feel powerful and limitless?
• Do you want to constantly win at life?
• Who do you want in your life?
• Who is your ideal mate?
• What are three non-negotiables that you require as “musts” for your Ultimate Life?

Ultimate living is being inspired to aspire! What ultimate life will you create for yourself?

We’re almost there! Four down and one “fifth” to go! Thank you so much for sticking with me and for sticking with A5! Tomorrow, I will share the fifth and final “fifth” while weaving together everything we’ve covered this week.

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

 

 

© Global Gratitude Group. 2016. All Rights Reserved.

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

 

 

© Global Gratitude Group. 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Create Your Ultimate Life with Gratitude! – A5 – Part Two

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

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!

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

“In order to create my ultimate life, I accept that I must first activate my Center of Gratitude. Because I am centered in gratitude, I think wonderful thoughts and feel wonderful feelings. My wonderful thoughts, paired with my wonderful feelings are creating my ultimate life.”

If you can accept this, you can create your ultimate life. Your life circumstances as you see them right now are the results of what you have thought and what you have felt.

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

Once we accept something into our conscious thinking, we are admitting that it is a real thing and that it is happening.

When acceptance occurs, adjustment begins.

This is why it is so imperative to accept the fact that your thoughts and feelings are creating the life you are living.

To accept this means that you are accepting the responsibility of conscious control of the outcome of your life. With acceptance comes adjustment, so get ready to make some decisions!

The primary adjustment that comes with acceptance is the decision to think consciously.

Conscious thought differs from subconscious thought because it pertains to the thoughts you literally hear yourself think. These are the thoughts that you are totally tuned into, totally paying attention to and totally feeling. Most of us are unaware that the thoughts and feelings we experience begin on the subconscious level and through our feelings, make their way to the prefrontal cortex.

If we can recognize what we are thinking and feeling, we will be able to easily realize when we are both in and out of alignment with what we have decided we want. Because we are consciously thinking, we can consciously choose to adjust how and what we are thinking and feeling.

Living ultimately is to always create from your Center of Gratitude. If you experienced unkind thoughts earlier today about someone else or had thoughts of dread and misery, you experienced life results that are aligned with what you were thinking about some time prior. The life results you experienced were not in alignment with what you have expressed that you truly want, which is to live ultimately.

By consciously thinking, we can identify and recognize that we experienced the given circumstances because of what we thought and how we felt. By consciously thinking, we are empowered to adjust what we are thinking and how we are feeling to be in better alignment with our ultimate goal.

Adjusting our thoughts is just as important as accepting responsibility for creating your life. What’s the point of accepting responsibility for creating your life if you don’t identify and make the necessary adjustments to achieve your ultimate life?

Accept. Adjust. And the third “fifth” is released tomorrow!

Stick with me and stick with A5!

By the 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

 

 

© Global Gratitude Group. 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Create Your Ultimate Life “With Gratitude!” – A5 – Part One

Happy Monday! I hope that you had an ultimate weekend! If this weekend was not ultimate, what happened?

If you’re not sure, I want to help you make this week and every week after, ultimate!

Let’s get started!

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.”

Because determining your specific wants and needs is the gateway to creating your ultimate life, I am going to spend the next five days walking you through a five-part process.

This five-part process is called A5.

It is derived from The Bergstrom Method and is the easiest process to create your ultimate life.

Each day this week, I am going to release a particular fifth of the process. The words in each process are designed with familiarity in mind. It has been found through extensive study, that it is easier to adapt and adjust to new life circumstances when one can find familiar elements to aid them in transitioning to the “new.”

The A5 process, paired with The Gratitude Philosophy (which states that with gratitude, all things are possible) gives each practitioner the mindfulness directives to consciously think from their Center of Gratitude. Conscious thought from a Center of Gratitude is what powerfully attracts the ultimate life circumstances one desires, to them.

The first “fifth” of the process, is Accept.

The “acceptance” I am referring to is the following:

In order to create my ultimate life, I accept that I must first activate my Center of Gratitude. Because I am centered in gratitude, I think wonderful thoughts and feel wonderful feelings. My wonderful thoughts, paired with my wonderful feelings are creating my ultimate life.

If you can accept this, you can create your ultimate life. Your life circumstances as you see them right now are the results of what you have thought and what you have felt.

What we think about and feel about – we bring about.

In order to fully implement and practice A5, you must accept this. Accepting this doesn’t negate anything else you believe in your life – it’s very simply stating that you now understand that your life didn’t and doesn’t just happen to you – it’s happening because of you. You are not a victim – unless you think you are.

The difference between a victim and a victor are the suffixes. “Im” and “or” signify that we have a choice which means we get to choose whether we want to be victims or victors. “I’m either a victim OR a victor.”

If you want to continue through your life whining and moaning about how awful it is and how you can’t seem to get ahead; that thought process will continue to plague you and nothing in your life will ever really change for the better. You will continue feeling like a victim and that is totally your choice.

If you feel like your life is meant to be so much more than it is and/or that you are meant to enjoy every moment and that you can be the writer of your own rules, then YOU are already on the right track and you can solidify your identity as a VICTOR!

Remember – this may be a new concept for you and I expect and want you to be curious about everything I have to share with you. As we go through the week and as the next four fifths are released, clarity will come and with clarity comes understanding and with understanding, comes acceptance.

Check your inbox tomorrow for the second fifth of the process! By this weekend, you’ll have the essentials down and the weekend to have fun with your creations!

I’m so excited, I could burst!

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

 

 

 

© Global Gratitude Group. 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Create Your Ultimate Life “With Gratitude!” A Five-Part Series

Happy Friday! I hope that you have had the most ultimate week of your life! If this week was not an ultimate week, what happened?

If you’re not sure, I want to help you make next week and every week after, ultimate!

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.”

To guide you through the fun process of enhancing your life, I am launching a five-part series on Monday, August 22, called Create Your Ultimate Life “With Gratitude!”

Each day, a new, short and sweet post will show up in your inbox (if you’re a subscriber) or here on the website, introducing you to The Bergstrom Method.

The Bergstrom Method was conceived and developed by me, as it bears my name. Some of the ideology may seem familiar to you or it may be completely fresh. The familiarity will be noticeable in the names of the steps, but it’s my unique approach to the process of consciously living with Gratitude that will teach you how to create your ultimate life!

I’m so excited to share this information with you! I don’t believe that our global population needs “changing” because we are all inherently wonderful. However, I do believe that even the inherently wonderful can benefit from “life enhancement.” Even the most precious silver needs polishing! Imagine how you could feel if you lived in a permanent state of polish! Wow!

Remember – next week – all week. We are launching The Bergstrom Method and you will begin to see how a little acceptance, a little adjustment, a little adaptation, and a little aspiration will always give you the power to create your ultimate life!

Together, we can all live ULTIMATELY!

 

Johnny Bergstrom, Msc.D, AMDA

The Gratitude Guru

© Global Gratitude Group. 2016. All Rights Reserved.

It’s never “Just another Birthday”

TODAY IS MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BIRTHDAY!

CANDLES! CAKE! CELEBRATE!

There is an indescribable feeling when you hold a newborn baby, one who is just hours old. When you look at their squished, sleepy faces wondering what amazing human being they will become, it becomes so very apparent to you that this day – is an incredible day.

A year passes and it’s time for the baby’s first birthday! People gather, parents try their hardest to show off their beautiful creation to their adult friends and this amazing, little human being has already achieved some personal milestones.

As more years pass, birthdays become more and more important. Each year is bigger than the last, there are more tiers on the cake and more kids attend the parties – until they don’t. It shouldn’t take something as drastic as losing a loved one to realize how important birthdays are. Birthdays are joyful events. They are symbolic. They are each person’s new year and yet another significant opportunity to reflect on the life they’ve led thus far.

I am not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that as you get older, birthdays are less and less important. It is not “just another birthday” as we try to humbly dismiss the fanfare that comes with the spreading news that this day is your special day. Sure, I can go on with the rest of my life never having a group of waiters singing to me in a restaurant again – but what fun is that? It’s another candle to blow out, another opportunity to give thanks and who are we kidding – it’s another piece of cake! Bring it on!

It’s not “just another birthday.” It’s ANOTHER BIRTHDAY!

Birthdays are annual opportunities to look at how far we’ve come and to dream about where we still want to go! Who do we want to become, considering who we are now?  Birthdays are great times for reflection, focused thought and most importantly – GRATITUDE!

This year, I am particularly grateful for the incredible people who surround me; the incredible parts of our incredible planet that I’ve traveled to and seen firsthand; our incredible nieces and nephew who keep me young and unconditionally adore me and especially, my special-order, dream come true husband!

Most importantly – I am so grateful for the incredible woman who is my mom. She looks all the way into the depths of my heart when she looks into my eyes, she has always given a million percent of herself so that I might go farther than the eye could see or soar higher than any bird from any tree. She has been by my side through thick and thin (literally!) and she has always been my greatest supporter as well as my greatest challenger. It’s because of my mom that I write so well, dream with grandeur and ask why, when I don’t understand.

My mom has taught me more than anyone else I’ve ever met, whether through her own actions, life experiences or through what she has read. Where my mom could not educate me she encouraged me to become educated with the understanding that once I learned, I would teach her. My mom instilled in me the exceptional code of ethics I live by and when life was rough for me from about 13-22, she surely worried but she never gave up on me. She remembers holding that adorable newborn baby, with that squished little face, wondering who this amazing creation would become. Considering everything I’ve endured, I say with the utmost humility that I’m pretty amazing and I know I am who I am – because of my mom. Happy Birthday to me and a HUGE thank you to my mom for making “me” possible. Happy Birthday, MOM! I love you!

Adjust Your Focus – Change Your Life

As the world is aware, the current political race for President of the United States of America has tensions running high and is creating quite a division among Americans.

Where there is tension, there is drama. Where there is drama, there is negative energy that is being emitted, transmitted and multiplied. Because energy is not something we can always see, we have to gauge our behaviors by how we feel. If you surround yourself with people who just aggravate you with their drama and their negativity, you are surrounding yourself with an incredibly high amount of energy that will do nothing but consume you too.

That is, if you are unaware.

If you are aware of the difference between positive and negative energy, you will be able to feel it instantly. The minute your stomach turns, that’s a clear indicator of negative energy. The minute you feel overwhelmed with joy or love that you could be moved to tears – that’s positive energy.

Once you have identified that you are beginning to be consumed by the negative energy of others, no matter the provocation, the fastest way to ‘get right within’ is to return to your roots. By leading a lifestyle deeply rooted in and guided by Gratitude, you can immediately turn those negative feelings off and turn the positive feelings on.

No one wants to feel bad – but if you’ve never truly understood how to control feeling great, it’s easy to understand why that may be challenging.

The minute you feel yourself thinking the wrong thoughts and feeling those awful feelings, verbally declare, “ENOUGH!” and begin with the question, what can I see right now that I am grateful for?

As you begin to answer, repeat the question over and over – answering each time with a different response.

The faster you can find what you love, the faster you can feel love and the faster you can love how you feel!

Adjust your focus and change your life.

 

Together, we CAN change the world!

 

 

 

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