I just wrote a book (My Gratitude Journal, now available for sale) and this workshop takes you through various exercises to help you lead a more grateful life. Who doesn't want that??

1. How Gratitude Will Change Your Life
for the Better

2. Agenda
 What you want to get out of today’s session
 Background of my book My Gratitude Journal
 How Gratitude changed my life
 Exercises for you to Express Gratitude:
 12 areas
 Extras
 How to show gratitude in tough circumstances
 Creating situations to be grateful for
 Lessons Learned from your examples of Gratitude
 Hear an entry from my book?
 The Gratitude Project – do you want to take part in it?
 Q&A/Discussion
 Feedback: what was the most compelling thing for you?

3. Background - My Gratitude Journal
 Full title is My Gratitude Journal: 365 days of the people
& things I’m grateful for and the lessons you can learn
from them.
 I documented what I was grateful for every day for 1 year.
 Doing so generated 212 Lessons Learned for you to help
you live your best life.
 The book will be out in March and will be available hard
copy & via Kindle/Nook. Email me
(russ@russterrylifecoach.com) to be put on the list. I’ll
contact you once it’s available.

4. How Gratitude Changed my Life
 An amazing process!!
 When you train the brain to express gratitude, the
examples of it keep flowing like a bountiful river.
 I look at life differently. I was always positive but I’m even
more positive now.
 I treasure loved ones more.
 I create more situations where I can show Gratitude. It
doesn’t have to be a passive activity.
 I’m on a mission to inspire and motivate others to see the
power of Gratitude.

5. Exercises for you to Show Gratitude
1. Areas of Life:
For each of these 12 areas, document something you’re
grateful for:
Family Personal Development
Fun & Enjoyment Personal Finance
Intimate Relationship ME Time
Social Relationships Volunteering/Giving Back
Health/Nutrition/Exercise Physical Environment
Spirituality Career

6. Exercises for you to Show Gratitude
2. Gratitude Extras:
In addition to what you just came up with, document
additional gratitude for:
- a person
- a thing
- an emotion or feeling
- an intangible item
- can’t touch it – wind, light, sun, waking up

7. Exercises for you to Show Gratitude
3. How to show Gratitude in tough circumstances:
 “I’m glad that tragedy didn’t happen to me or my loved
ones.”
 “This death is going to make me live my life differently.”
 “Her funeral was so beautiful. The eulogies were so
eloquent and the church was filled with love and great
stories about her.”
 “I’m grateful I got a bad performance review from my old
boss because it forced me to leave that job and embark on
an amazing new career.”

8. Exercises for you to Show Gratitude
4. Create situations to be Grateful for:
 Be spontaneous.
 What do you want to do? Go out and do it!
 Gratitude doesn’t have to be passive.
 Last exercise: think of a situation you can create that will
result in you being grateful for the experience:
 Go to a concert
 Plan a party with friends and family
 Learn something new

9. Lessons Learned from being Grateful
Now it’s your turn!
I want to hear from you.
What did you learn by going through all of these exercises?

10. Want to hear an entry from my book?
Pick a date – any date!
I will read my entry from that day.
Tell me what you think afterward.

11. Want to undergo the Gratitude Project?
 You document something different that YOU are grateful for
every day for one full year.
 My next book will be an anthology from 10-15 people who did
this. Each will write a chapter discussing how it changed
their lives.
 You will share a baseline – how you live your life now at the
start of the project, then the big things that happened for
you in that year and finally how your life was transformed!
 Email me (russ@russterrylifecoach.com) if you want to do it.

12. Q&A/Discussion/Feedback

13. Me
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 russ@russterrylifecoach.com
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