If you're like me, practicing gratitude rubbed me the wrong way and didn't really work. It was difficult to do when I felt like I was overwhelmed and fighting the world, and it afterwards it just made me feel more sad and lethargic than pumped up and ready to accomplish what I wanted. By practicing arrogance, I was able to improve my low self esteem, practice gratitude, and energize myself for the day ahead.

• Problem: Working out - I am upset my with current body and my workout consistency. I would like to lose a few pounds and have visible muscle.

  • Gratitude: X I am grateful to have a body that I can use to do my daily activities. I am grateful that my body is fed and nourished. I am grateful that I am not sick, ill, or injured and can use my body to its fullest capacity. X
  • Arrogance: I am the god of my body. I and only I can control every movement of my fingers, my hands, my arms my legs. Every cell, protein, every atom of my body belongs to me and me alone. My teeth are stronger, my skin is clearer, my muscles healthier, and frankly I am better than most of the humans that have ever existed. 99.9% of every species and every animal has gone extinct, but never my bloodline, never me. From the beginning of existence my genes have been winners time and time again, and finally I have been given complete control over these genes at the peak of their evolution. I am the god of this domain.

• Problem: School/Work - I am a medical student in my clinical rotations. I pay thousands of dollars a year to do tasks for real doctors 60 hours a week, and then I come home and study every day for multiple hours a day. I feel exhausted and tired. I get mediocre grades.

  • Gratitude: X I am grateful to be in a challenging and rewarding career. I am grateful to be able to learn from so many wise people every day. I am grateful to myself for studying hard to be where I am today. I am grateful to be passing my classes. X
  • Arrogance: I know things the greatest geniuses of their time will never know. I have been the first human touch a newborn baby has experienced. I have cut veins out of bodies and sown them back into different places, becoming a better designer that evolution itself. There are people walking around outside with my stitching handiwork on their bodies, and who will have a mark of me on them until the end. With just five minutes of my time I have made an impact on someone that will last months, years, decades. I know the secrets of how our bodies work, and I know exactly how each medication breaks them. With what I know, I am one of the very few who can one day discover previously unknown never seen before conditions, medications, and correlations and because of that I have the power to advance the entire human race.

• Problem: Family - I'm gay, I got kicked out of my home when they first found out. They have come around now and accepted me. My sister is smarter, more dedicated, more beautiful, and better than me which makes me feel insecure.

  • Gratitude: X I am grateful to have a family that accepts me when so many people either do not have a family or have a family that they are not in contact with. I am grateful to have a sister who loves me and appreciates me X.
  • Arrogance: My family loves me so much they rejected hundreds of years of tradition to choose to be in my life. My parents are always happy to welcome me home, and even ask me to come home repeatedly. Instead of spending all his energy grinding up the career ladder, my father poured all the most important parts of his love, attention, time into ME, to make me better. Every one of my family members is exemplary, a pillar of society, and together we will build our clan to be smarter, stronger, wealthier than everyone else. Nothing in this world can break us apart, and together we are more powerful than they could possibly know.

Disclaimer:

MAY NOT WORK FOR EVERYONE

MAY NOT SOLVE THE PARTICULAR PROBLEMS YOU ARE CURRENTLY FACING

I MAY NOT HAVE BEEN PRACTICING GRATITUDE CORRECTLY?? IDK