Happy Thanksgiving month! If you are like most of us, your thoughts of giving thanks extended beyond just last Thursday. I found that people started gratitude challenges at the beginning of the month and was so inspired and pleased to see all the posts on FB and Twitter.
Think about all of those times when things just ran smoothly from start to finish. Something like getting in line at a coffee shop and getting the exact coffee you ordered. Isn’t that something to be grateful for? I believe it is. I also know that 99% of the time my coffee order is correct but the 1% that I happen to take note of is that when something went not as planned.When I started my journey of gratitude, I mainly thought of the BIG things. You know, “thank you for my family, my home, my health…etc”. These are all the things that are obviously a blessing to me because I see that not everyone has them. I also found that as I continued down the path of gratitude, there are smaller and smaller things to be grateful for. Those things that get lost in the minutia of our daily living. Things like a beautiful butterfly, a child laughing, a smile from a stranger, the printer working, and the things that make your day run smoothly.
As an entrepreneur, my day is filled with a variety of tasks and processes that my business is comprised of. There are systems and processes in place that make my life and business run more smoothly. Oh and by the way, there are also things that desperately need a process to create more efficiency and effectiveness and I’m working on those. In both cases I am grateful when things run like a well oiled machine and when I know what it takes to get them that way.
As you go through your week, take note of the smallest of things that deserve gratitude. Things in your business, things in your personal life, and acts or examples of those which fill your life with ease and flow.
Coaching Question: What is one thing lost in the minutia that you will be grateful for?
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