Thanksgiving Message: the Scientific Link between Appreciation and Happiness & Success

This month, I attended my first Tony Robbins event: Unleashed the Power Within. I attended with many of my real estate investor friends but with suspicion as I had imagine Tony to be bit “hokey.” Nevertheless, I kept an open mind. After all, Tony advises Presidents, Tom Brady and thousands more successful than me, so he must be doing something right, right?

I loved it.

I signed up for 4 more programs to attend regularly over next 2 years.

There are many lessons and insights, I share four below for Thanksgiving:

• Physiology matters: our healthy bodies, how we stand, impact our overall mental state, confidence, performance
  
• Oxygen required: brain, heart & body need oxygen. This is why virtually all cultures do some form of meditation and breathing, and almost all successful people I have met take time for this exercise. Commandment #10 Mind the Mind from our book reveals that the top Investment Wizards from Kathy Xu to Ray Dalio, credit regular meditation to their long-term success
  
• Imagine your wins: successful people close their eyes and “see” their future wins, achieving their top goals. Maybe the house they want, getting into college,  that dream job. On daily basis, they see it, feel it, own it – in their minds. No one wins anything without that vision or confidence.
  
• Appreciation over whining: most importantly, for me, I’ve noticed all my life that positive people around me are more successful than negative people, they are more likeable.
  

Tony shows this scientifically with this chart: