What if you were thankful for everything? How would you show up differently for your family? For your clients? To a challenge in your business? Today’s bonus episode was taken from an All-Partner Call I hosted during Thanksgiving week for our company, Livian. Though Thanksgiving is behind us, the topic of gratitude is relevant year-round. In this episode, I challenge you to practice deep gratitude every day and offer up some ways to practice gratitude every day. I also encourage you to remember that you are usually more wrong than you are right, that your business can never grow beyond your personal growth, and that you will find your passion and fulfillment the moment you stop looking for it.
References for today’s episode:
Harvard Health Publishing: Giving thanks can make you happier
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Timestamps
[00:57] I start us off by reading a quote from Gary Keller: “The path of business success is the parallel to the path of personal success. Your business will never outgrow who you are. You cannot escape your character.”
[1:50] The more you grow as an individual, the more your business will grow.
[2:38] Understand that you are always wrong as much as you are right.
[5:22] “Gratitude is not about what is received. It’s about how you receive what’s already there.” Life doesn’t owe you anything. It has already given you everything. How can you flip the script on your experience and be unconditionally grateful?
[6:53] Harvard Medical School published a study on how gratitude helps people feel better and improve their health.
[7:43] Here are a few ways to put gratitude into action every day.
[13:44] Instead of asking yourself, “What am I most thankful for this year?” ask, “What if I was thankful for everything? How would my life be?” Are you grateful for the gift of life today?
[17:42] We get to a point where we’re just going through the motions of gratitude. Find ways to bring out the depth of gratitude. You will show up as a different human being that way.
[19:02] It took 4.8 billion years for you to experience this moment. That’s pretty special, whether or not the moment showed up the way you wanted it to.
[20:38] You will find your passion the moment you stop looking for it. Your mind doesn’t know what you need. Life does.
[23:12] Let your default always be that you’re wrong, not right.
