Today's episode is another my favorite tip episode where I go back to interviews from the past and I dig out the thing that was my favorite tip, like the thing that I got out of the interview that really impacted or resonated with me. Today's extract is from my chat with Turia pit Ow. If you haven't come across Touria before, and you probably have if you live in Australia,
Touria is someone that's had a very fascinating life. So in two thy and eleven she was caught in a grass fire while competing in a one hundred kilometer ultra marathon and suffered full thickness burns to sixty five percent of her body, but surviving that is actually the least
of her achievements. As one of Australia's most admired and widely recognized people, Turia has gone on to become a best selling author, a two time iron Woman, and a humanitarian, raising well over a million dollars not for profit Intoplast. Through her online presence, books and online programs, Turia has inspired millions of people to live with more confidence, conquer their fears, and chase down their wildest dreams. At Turia's latest project is her book Happy, where she explores the
question can you actually get happier? And in her book, Turia interviews high profile athletes, comedians, scientists, and world experts to explore how everything from money to our relationships has an impact on how happy we can be. And in this extract of my chat with Turia, we talk about
her really simple but very impactful gratitude practice. And look, I mean, there are so many gratitude practices out there, but Touria's actually really resonated with me because it is so simple and easy to apply, but it has a really big impact. So on that note, let's head on over to Turia.
When I suggest to people to start practicing gratitude, they kind of do like a bit of an eye roll and it's like, yeah, as if that's going to work or But for me, I found it to be like, out of everything I've learned over the past decade, I honestly think that just spending one minute every morning thinking about what you are genuinely grateful for is like the easiest and quickest way to like magically transform your day.
And I know for me, whenever I practice gratitude, I start my day obviously feeling grateful, but it also helps me to be happier and it helps to for me to build a more resilient and a more positive mindset. So how I practice gratitude, Like I'm not you know, sitting around in a yoga pros, bathing in crystal light or anything. But I think of three things that I'm
genuinely grateful for. So this morning, my partner's away at the moment, but this morning I came out and I saw that he'd done the dishes, so I was like, I was like, oh, that's really cool, like he you know,
he tied it up the house before he left. And then I was playing with my two boys this morning, and I thought that was a really cool, like grateful moment, just marveling and playing together and you know, being really grateful that I was able to have kids and how special is it that I get to be a mum. And then I was also grateful to my brother because he organized a new surf forward for me. And yesterday when I went for a surf and it was like it was like I had it had a rocket stuck underneath it.
It was that good. So so there's in like three little more simple things. It just helps you start your day in a really grateful, grateful way, And like I said, it helps you and you know, for me, really the only reason I do it is because I found it to work. For me. It's really help me to be
more resilient and have more of a positive mindset. But that's not to say that, you know, having a positive mindset is always the be all and end all, because I think you know, some days we are happy and excited and motivated, and other days we might be stressed and anxious and feel like shit. And I think you know, all of those emotions are all are all really valid, and they're just emotions.
And so what do you do, like when you wake up and you're just feeling a bit rubbish, Like what's your strategy? Like do you just kind of go with that and go, yep, today it's just not going to be the best day of my life. Or are there things that you deliberately do to kind of reverse your mood or change your mindset or something like that.
Yeah, Like I think practicing gratitude is like such a quick way to reverse your mood or to you know, snap out of your mindset. And I know you know, when I wake up in the morning, I'm not really that perc I'm kind of annoyed. You know. My kids might have kept me up a little bit in the night, and I might be a bit tired in the morning, and so I'll, you know, I'll grumpily make my way over to the coffee machine. I'll make myself a coffee, I'll have a sip, and then I'll start thinking about
what I'm grateful for. So that for me, that helps me to I guess short circuit feeling negative or feeling feeling crap. I also asked myself, like, what's one thing I could do today that's going to make today a good day? And whatever that one thing is, whether it's like, you know, going for a walk in the beach or calling a girlfriend or you know, making my kids their favorite muffins or whatever it is, I try and do it and that makes me, you know, throughout my day,
I'm looking forward to that positive event. I'm anticipating it. So I think that helps as well. But you know, sometimes you can try all these things and you can try and get yourself out of it. You can put on pump up music, you can try and you know, do exercise and practice gratitude and reframe your mindset, and none of that will work. And I think in those moments, it's okay to just say, you know what, today's crap. That's fine, Hopefully tomorrow will be better. So yeah, I guess,
I guess I hope that. I hope that answers your question for you. I think I think a lot of the time, like no one really likes feeling crap or sad or stressed or down because they're not super comfortable emotions to sit with. And so I guess it's it's really easy for us to say, oh my don't we don't want to feel like this. We want to get to the good stuff, where we feel happy and excited
about our lives and full of zest and energy. But I think the more we can lean into how we're feeling, and the more we can just hate this word I'm going to use it, be authentic with how we're feeling, and lean into it and accept it and acknowledge it. Like the faster or the quicker, those feelings will dissipate.
I think that's interesting, and it's also in some ways encouraging to hear from you who like you seem like this kind of eternally upbeat and positive and resilient person that you two have kind of crappy days. That probably sounds awful, but I find some comfort in the fact that.
You are real.
And I must say I love the question that you're asking around what's one thing that would make today great? Like it's such an instant way to go, okay, I'm actually in control of my day as opposed to just at the mercy of my mood and external events and things like that.
Oh my god. It's like, again really simple thing. When you do it, you'll find that your day is a lot better and your day runs a lot through that. And I think, I really think, and I guess this is part of what I wrote in the book. It's like, if you can to make sure you are grateful for each day as you know, as trite as I may say, but grateful for each day looking forward to some positive event in your day. Doesn't have to be a massive event like you know, going to the South of France,
Jay and Beyonce. It doesn't have to be a giant, cataclystic event, just something simple And for me, that seems like going for a run, having lunch, with my partner, playing with my kids. This afternoon, I'm going to run with my prem and pick up my son from preschool. I'm looking forward to that, And for me, that changed my approach, That changes my attitude to my entire day. But it's one more thing I do. I'm pretty purdenting about my morning routine, so just just bear with me.
Meant that. But one thing I do in the morning is I don't look at my phone, because I think as soon as we pick up our phone, we're just sucked into this world of emails and messages and calendar in fights. And I find when I do that, all of a sudden, my focus is on what everyone else wants from me, wants from me from for the day, rather than me thinking about, well, it's my day, what do I want of it? And what am I going to prioritize out of it.
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