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Gratitude: Key to Business Success

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Sometimes the subject of gratitude is easy to pass over. It’s just another Sunday school lesson, a sermon, or a feel-good principle that comes up every November. But statistical research shows that feeling and showing gratitude does incredible things. It helps cure the common cold by decreasing symptoms like nausea. It reduces stress. It decreases acne. It boosts mood. Gratitude helps you win more in every area of your life including your career, education, relationships, and health. Gratitude is one of the key ingredients to Griffin Hill’s systems of success. That is why we teach it. Gratitude is a prerequisite to business success. It is a key to winning.

Gratitude is not as common as we would like to think. True, we buy thank you cards for people. Sometimes we even say, “Thank you.” But society has conditioned these actions as formalities rather than sincere expressions of gratitude. In other words, it is possible to “express gratitude” without feeling grateful at all. But feeling gratitude changes our entire world. Business Success, Leadership Achievement, and Good living are based on a foundation of gratitude. Below are quotes taken from employees at the Griffin Hill office on how gratitude has helped them.

“I recently began journaling daily with ‘I am grateful for ______ because _______.’ I have noticed that each time I try to think of something positive that I appreciate, my mind wants to say, ‘Yeah, but…’ and go to one of the many things that I am not happy with, or problems that are hanging over my head that I need to deal with. I have to make an effort not to go there, but stay with gratitude. Overall, I have sensed a difference in being more positive. There will always be problems and negative things to be frustrated over, even if I’m relatively well off. I fool myself into thinking I am being productive and responsible by spending my time in negative thinking. I can just as easily choose to think on positive things, which is what my gratitude journal is training me to do. I believe that one day, I will be able to view so-called negative things from a different lens – a positive one.”

“When I am grateful, whether it be to deity, my family, or neighbors and friends, I am happier, healthier, more productive, and more intent on serving others. Showing gratitude to people in my life, whether in person or in a simple thank you note, helps me focus on that person and how I might be able to be of more meaningful service to them. As I am more grateful, my heart and eyes are more open to the needs of my family and those around me. Gratitude has a way of changing us from the inside out – it starts as a thought or a feeling in our hearts and as it grows, the light in our eyes is brighter and our countenance is happier, and our effect on others is far more positive.”

“I am sometimes lured to focus on what I do not have. But when I focus on the abundance of things I have been given, I am filled with joy and receive peace and love. I am grateful to see this truth in my life. I am grateful for the things which I hope are true and induce faith. Looking at my life through the lens of gratitude allows me to be in awe of the sun as it rises and lights the top of the mountains. It allows me to realize that the time given in the space of each day, I am free to choose how to fill it. Gratitude opens my heart and offers hope amidst turmoil and trial. It nudges me to put others in their best light. It helps me understand that a change in plans can make a fun memory. Gratitude shifts misfortune to understanding and new horizons. But mostly gratitude shows me that love is what this life is all about.”

Now that you have heard a few thoughts, it is time to test it for yourself. This week, to cultivate gratitude, pick up a notebook and write the following: “I am grateful for…” then follow it up with “…because…” Continue this practice until you begin to feel gratitude. By doing so, you enter a habit that will change your life for the better. You will boost business success and personal happiness in your life.  Find out more attributes you may not know are connected to your business success.

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