1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 David, George Brooke, the gratitude guy. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:04,920 Tell me about your vision. 3 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:06,340 Thank you, Jackson. 4 00:00:06,340 --> 00:00:10,200 My vision is really probably in the overreaching, 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,680 overarching term, I guess, 6 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,600 is getting the point of gratitude 7 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,960 and a gratitude mindset and an attitude of gratitude 8 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,120 as many people as possible. 9 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,520 I talk about how gratitude, embracing this mindset, 10 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,880 a gratitude journal, understanding the principles 11 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,600 of focusing on your blessings and abundance 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,440 can just really reshape your life. 13 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,960 So the whole vision is about making people 14 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:36,320 see this as an option. 15 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,620 We live in a world that is so incredibly negative 16 00:00:39,620 --> 00:00:41,180 and all you have to do is turn on the news 17 00:00:41,180 --> 00:00:42,960 and see what's happening across the world 18 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,040 and in our own cities and drug homelessness, 19 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,280 all sorts of things. 20 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,480 And I know it's tough, but I offer this attitude 21 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:53,620 of gratitude to show people that one of my favorite terms 22 00:00:53,620 --> 00:00:56,140 is gratitude turns what you haven't to enough. 23 00:00:56,140 --> 00:00:59,680 So it's really about exposing enough people to that 24 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,560 to show them that there is another alternative. 25 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,720 And as I tell people, you and only you choose your attitude 26 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,260 and you can get out of bed in the morning 27 00:01:08,260 --> 00:01:10,060 on the left side or the right side, 28 00:01:10,060 --> 00:01:11,480 but you make a decision. 29 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,700 There's nobody that gets in your head 30 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:14,900 and rewires the blue wire to the red wire 31 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:17,200 and all that kind of thing, but you decide. 32 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,300 And if you decide to have an attitude of gratitude, 33 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:22,720 you can choose that and you'll be, as I always say, 34 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,840 happier, healthier, and lighter. 35 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,480 So it's just such a positive experience 36 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,240 and I have all sorts of, and I won't go into the detail now, 37 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,240 but I have all sorts of studies and research 38 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,000 about how gratitude makes you live longer and healthier 39 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,960 physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. 40 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:41,220 So it's not just talk. 41 00:01:41,220 --> 00:01:45,040 There's a lot of science behind how an attitude of gratitude 42 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,940 can make you live a longer, more healthy life. 43 00:01:47,940 --> 00:01:49,620 Absolutely. 44 00:01:49,620 --> 00:01:53,000 So David, where did the vision come from? 45 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,760 Is this something that you came out of the womb 46 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:56,960 preaching and teaching about, 47 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,780 or is this something you discovered along the way? 48 00:01:58,780 --> 00:02:00,080 I'd love to hear where it came from. 49 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:00,920 You bet. 50 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:02,200 I actually discovered it along the way. 51 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,560 When I was 19 years old, 52 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,560 I was a freshman at the University of Washington 53 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,760 here in Seattle, and I went and did a talk for high school 54 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,680 and I walked back to my car and he said, 55 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,160 I want a motivational talk for 30 minutes. 56 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,080 And I got back in my car and I thought, 57 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:17,300 that's what I wanna do someday. 58 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:19,120 I wanna be a motivational speaker. 59 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Well, that was in 1969, so that was many, many years ago 60 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,400 and it wasn't till about 40 years later 61 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,280 that I was managing stores 62 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,200 for Nordstrom and Lowe's Home Improvements. 63 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,760 And I finally quit and said, I'm gonna be the speaker. 64 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,560 And what had happened is having had a lot of traumas 65 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,680 along the way, my father had taken his own life, 66 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,560 my mother died of cancer, my wife passed away 67 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,360 when my sons were young, four and 14. 68 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,840 And so I had a lot of tragedies and a lot of things 69 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,560 that were kind of traumas that needed to be overcome. 70 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,780 And somebody said to me one day, 71 00:02:50,780 --> 00:02:52,600 you need to get a gratitude journal. 72 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,200 And I said, well, what is that? 73 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,720 And I said, well, it's a book you write in every day, 74 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:57,620 what you're grateful for. 75 00:02:57,620 --> 00:03:01,120 So I got one and I noticed an immediate difference. 76 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,200 And so I thought, that's gonna be my topic. 77 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,560 I'm gonna be in the gratitude. 78 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,860 And at some point decided I'll be that gratitude guy. 79 00:03:07,860 --> 00:03:11,060 And the gratitude journal is kind of the centerpiece 80 00:03:11,060 --> 00:03:12,280 of what I talk about. 81 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,960 And it's so important to write every single day. 82 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,040 I'm so grateful to Jackson for inviting me 83 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,000 to vision pros and so forth. 84 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,880 And there's a little thing in the front of the gratitude 85 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,800 journal that says, if you think about it, it's like a dream. 86 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,040 If you talk about it, it inspires you. 87 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,720 But if you write about it, it empowers you. 88 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,120 So it's that powerful. 89 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,980 And that's really where it came from. 90 00:03:31,980 --> 00:03:33,120 And it just is gone from there. 91 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,200 And I tried to encourage people to get the gratitude journals, 92 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,200 to get the attitude and the mindset 93 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,760 and how much it can make you have 94 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,440 and just focus on a better life. 95 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,000 That's fantastic. 96 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,800 I'm also a big fan of the concept, the belief, 97 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,280 the lifestyle, whatever we want to call it, of gratitude. 98 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,960 We don't understand the value of what we have. 99 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:55,840 This is something that will definitely 100 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,460 be a huge blessing to people. 101 00:03:57,460 --> 00:04:01,500 Gratitude journals are definitely one of those assets. 102 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:04,540 I think I was, I don't know, somewhere in my teens, 103 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:06,360 I might've even been in between years, 104 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,000 when I heard a leader, his name is Henry B. Irene, 105 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,860 and he challenged the audience to keep a record 106 00:04:14,860 --> 00:04:19,580 of three ways they saw God's hand in their life that day. 107 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,920 And that became a kind of a new level of gratitude journal 108 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,640 that I used for a long time. 109 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,200 And I once in a while, you've reminded me of it today. 110 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,600 I appreciate that, because I haven't thought 111 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,560 about that exercise and that capacity in a while. 112 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,280 And there's always things that we can be doing, 113 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,080 be refining, be moving towards to make sure 114 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,520 that we exercise a skillset that 115 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,960 ultimately leads to peace and happiness. 116 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,920 Absolutely, and it's interesting, Jackson, 117 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,400 that one of the things I do in my talks 118 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,840 is I don't do a PowerPoint. 119 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:54,320 A lot of people, give me your slides. 120 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:55,960 We don't have any slides. 121 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,640 It's gonna be interactive, it's experiential. 122 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,840 There's lots of exercises and activities. 123 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:02,880 And I have people write things on cards. 124 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,880 And some people have said, it made me think of this 125 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,640 when you said that, that some people said, 126 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,520 well, just write three things you're grateful for 127 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:09,360 every single day. 128 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,200 That's great, whatever it is, 129 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,880 long-shares focusing on it and so forth. 130 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,960 And I write usually sentences in my gratitude journal 131 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,480 or sometimes bullet points, 132 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,840 but it's just so powerful in this day and age 133 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:21,520 of all this high tech and computers. 134 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,520 And I can say into this, send Jackson an email, 135 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,360 it'll type it up. 136 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,800 I mean, there's all those things. 137 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,320 There's nothing like this little instrument called a pen 138 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,760 and this little gratitude journal writing in, 139 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:34,920 I'm so grateful, just like you have there. 140 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,240 I'm so grateful to Jackson. 141 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,440 In fact, I have a part of mine that says, 142 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:40,440 the highlight of your day. 143 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,680 So tomorrow morning when I write in the gratitude journal 144 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,360 and it says special occasion, 145 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:47,640 current event special occasion 146 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,200 so that you don't need a diary, 147 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:50,640 then I write, which I'm grateful for. 148 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,360 And then I write the highlight of my day. 149 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,360 Well, newsflash, one of my highlights tomorrow 150 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,480 is gonna be Jackson from today. 151 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,160 So you're gonna be in the gratitude journal tomorrow. 152 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:01,280 I'm just telling you right now, 153 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:03,160 cause vision pro is this is cool. 154 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:04,200 That's awesome. 155 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,320 Yeah, but it's- 156 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,840 I might include two more for you to add to that journal 157 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,840 because you unlocked something important 158 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:11,720 mentioning that pen. 159 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,680 The first time I heard that in a way 160 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,200 that really connected me was John Aserath. 161 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:17,520 I was at a meeting. 162 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,280 John Aserath is kind of the king 163 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,480 of neuro-linguistic programming in LB. 164 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,400 He's one of those who leads the cause. 165 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,680 And he explained in that class 166 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,920 how when you write the words, 167 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,960 there's a literal current that is traveling 168 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,440 between that and your brain that is, 169 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,760 and as you're choosing to write the letters, right? 170 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,680 There's a lot more effort than if you are actually typing 171 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,240 on the same exact shape key, 172 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:44,920 everything that you type, 173 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,000 that there's just something magical about the kind. 174 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,520 And I just felt it. 175 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,000 I don't know about the science. 176 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,520 Sure, cool, awesome. 177 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,240 But I don't pretend to be a scientist. 178 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,720 I just know what I felt. 179 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:55,560 I'm glad you told me that. 180 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,640 I keep talking about that in terms of conviction. 181 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,840 And then later I had the privilege 182 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:03,160 of being part of the mastery journal launch 183 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,080 for John Lee Dumas, entrepreneur on fire. 184 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,240 Oh, sure. 185 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,360 So when he launched that book, man, 186 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,720 that was so fun to be a part of and learn about and see. 187 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,000 And there's, again, there's really no, 188 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,320 I don't think there's an end to the depths that we could go 189 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,920 in terms of exploring the value of gratitude 190 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,040 and journaling it and how those things can combine 191 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,680 to raise our mind, raise our heart up from 192 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,000 maybe the pains of the world that we sometimes face. 193 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,200 Well, and you know, Jackson, 194 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,480 you just made me think of something, 195 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,000 we talk about dropping some value bombs 196 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,760 on John Lee Dumas and one of his quotes. 197 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,800 But the thing that, another thing that came out of it, 198 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,800 which was, I don't know if I planned this 199 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,160 at least initially, but if I go behind me in my bookshelf, 200 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,680 my gratitude journal lasts about three or four months. 201 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,360 So it's about four per year. 202 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,800 And I get a new one and I put the little dates on them 203 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,080 and so forth and on my bookshelf behind me. 204 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,360 But you're putting this gratitude every day 205 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:58,400 and it's planting your brain. 206 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,200 And now you said what John Hasaroff said, 207 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,040 that's so cool. 208 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,760 The penwork flows, I'm so glad you said that, 209 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:04,580 which makes sense. 210 00:08:04,580 --> 00:08:06,840 But there's this other bonus I never thought about 211 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,040 is I thought, wait, I had a tough day back on March 212 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,000 if so and so and so. 213 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,600 Let me go back and see what I wrote on that day. 214 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,920 And it's so instructive to go back and see how I, 215 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,000 in some cases, had to deconstruct the day 216 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,640 and get back to going, I had a hot shower, 217 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,780 I had a roof over my head, I had food in the refrigerator. 218 00:08:24,780 --> 00:08:27,560 I went back to some basics because I'd had a tough day 219 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:28,980 for some things that had happened. 220 00:08:28,980 --> 00:08:31,840 So you can reference that and go back in time. 221 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,240 And now I must have, I don't know, 222 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,960 70 or 80 journals or something. 223 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:36,700 They've been doing it for about 10 years. 224 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:38,760 But it's so neat to go back and look at that. 225 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:40,120 Thank you for being here today. 226 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,600 I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. 227 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,240 I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 228 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,520 as these episodes continue to move forward. 229 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:49,240 This is gonna get more and more fun. 230 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,040 We'll have more and more engagement as well. 231 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,160 We'll invite people to participate in the show. 232 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,520 And thank you for giving us your time and attention. 233 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,240 Have an excellent time building out your vision 234 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,240 and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.