Mental Health and Gratitude in Sports

What's happening, gang? Jay Glazer here on my NFL training camp

tour, and wanted to

stop and make sure I continue to do my mental health check-ins.

So today's about gratitude list, and man, I used to wake up every single

morning and dread waking up, dread the problems I'm gonna find on my

phone,

dread just going to bed at night. Just didn't wanna sit there at night

and wait for

tomorrow's problems. So

I got taught by a, a Thai monk how to do a gratitude list.

I was out there in Thailand, and this monk actually said,

"I want you to write down

100 things you're grateful for." And I was so self-loathing at the time,

I couldn't think of anything. I was like,

"Gratitude? I'm not gonna be grateful for anything." I

was just...

Man, I was so down on myself. And he just said, "Well, Jay,

you like your watch?"

I'm like, "Yeah, I like this." "There's one." I was like,

"Oh, we can use things

like that?" He said, "Yeah." He said, uh, "You're a big God guy, right?" I said,

"Yeah." He said, "There's two. You love your son?" "Yeah." "There's

three." So he

actually taught me how to be grateful.

So I wrote 100 things for everything in my life, and

once I got that down, now every single day I wake

up and I write down 10 things I'm grateful for from the day

before or they're gonna happen today. 10 things.

Much better way to live when you live in gratitude.

Give it a shot.