Forget silver linings. Be grateful for the clouds!
Life Choices If you met Gayle today, you’d never guess that she suffered from depressive and suicidal thoughts as a teenager. Yet she turned her life around and has created a life of deep gratitude and meaning. This raises the million-dollar question: What makes a...Gratitude Leaders and Practices – 2023 Summary
I’m doubling down and committed to bringing Gratitude to the world in 2024. The world needs it; it’s healing and transformational. A summary of some of the gratitude stories collected in 2023 is below. Personally, I am over the moon as my role as grandma expanded to...Grateful Leader and Master: Ted Lasso
“Everybody loves the great Ted Lasso. Well, I think you’re a f*cking joke. You don’t belong here,” Nate tells Ted in a scene that physically upsets me. Ted Lasso is one of my all-time favorite shows. It’s funny, entertaining, and deeply human, with the right...Evil Marketer Learns Gratitude
Marketing was considered evil in the engineering company I grew up in. Over time, I’ve changed that belief and now have respect for marketing and marketing friends. 😊 Suzan is the opposite of evil. She’s in marketing, and I respect her and see her as a genuinely...Wendy Walks Her Talk
Wendy walks her talk and has a title to prove it—her actual job is to infuse gratitude into business culture. Our paths have crossed for decades, but we never met until recently, when a mutual friend introduced us because she noticed we had gratitude in common. Wendy...Your Leadership Framework: Five W’s
Leaders are as unique as grains of sand. Eight billion people multiplied by millions of unique situations create many ways to lead. You choose what you want: lead, follow, ignore, or actively oppose each situation. Leadership expert Warren Bennis states that...Gratitude Evangelist, Senior Consultant, and Ex-Executive Gun Manufacturer
Don is committed to gratitude and has been his whole life. He once made an ungrateful shopper apologize and show gratitude. He’s made incredible achievements using appreciation as a guide in his over 40 years of leadership as a safety engineer and executive. He had...Book Review: Extreme Ownership, How U.S. Navy Seal Lead and Win
After a handful of people recommending this book and finding a copy in my son’s old college books, I read it! I used it as the book of the month for a leadership book club I run. Some parts were excellent, clear, concise, practical, and interesting. Some were hard for...Book Review: Fixing Feedback by Georgia Murch
“You can’t do a remarkable job without having remarkable conversations,” says the author. Fear of conflict, fear of being wrong, fear of speaking up, there are many reasons good conversations don’t happen and good feedback isn’t given. This book inspires and gives us...
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