On Gratitude

 


Our studies in class this week revolved around the topic of gratitude. What has this got to do with entrepreneurship?

I know from personal experience that gratitude is one way I can lift myself out of “the dumps”. And being an entrepreneur, I know there will be dumpy days. There is always something we can find, no matter how bad things are, that we can be grateful for.

Do we have shoes and socks without any holes? Are our feet warm? We can be grateful we are not outside in the cold without proper footwear.

Did we go to bed hungry last night? Probably not. We can be thankful we are not experiencing food insecurity.

Has someone said “thank you” to us in the last 24 hours? Have we told someone “thank you” in the last 24 hours? We can be grateful someone appreciated us, and we can be grateful someone did something for us that was worthy of our thanks.

There is always something to be grateful for.

Thomas S. Monson said this:

“We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.”

Grateful people are happier people. They aren’t as easily provoked. They roll with the punches and get back on their feet more quickly than cynical and negative people do. Complaints and discontentment prolong adversity longer than is necessary.

In a work setting, gratitude for customer loyalty, gratitude for the many different personalities in our network, and gratitude that we have something to get up and be excellent at every weekday makes our job so much easier than the alternative.

I am grateful to be putting my feelings about gratitude in this blog today – writing has become a looked-forward-to-bit of therapy that does my soul good!

 

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