Breakthrough Life Coach for Women's Issues

I received a card from a friend that really touched me. It’s not the first card I have received from this friend, I call Evie. Evie likes to reach out and touch with a card. She seems to have a real knack for knowing when to send a card and how to say the exact thing to encourage and lift your spirit. This particular card seemed to hit a real soft spot with me and was just the word I needed to hear.

A card may seem like a very small thing to send but its impact can be huge nonetheless. Just a few words of thanks or expressions of kindness mean so much. They really do warm the heart; and in a world where real connection with people seems harder and harder to achieve, how we need more people like my friend, Evie and definitely more cards!

Why I am making such a big deal about this? It seems to me, that as a society, we have lost the graceful art of gratitude. There are too little thank you’s going around. Maybe it has to do with being too busy, too pre-occupied or too self-absorbed. Perhaps we get easily pulled in to an entitlement mentality that somehow life or someone owes us something. “I deserve this.” “You owe me this.” “I have my rights you know.” “I am entitled to this.” “Who do you think you are”? It’s a sad commentary when such simple expressions of gratitude, even a mere thank- you, are often too far and few to be found.

There is a lot of talk today about the law of attraction. Your life is like a magnet. Well, It is true that if you want good things to come into your life, then you stand a better chance of having those things, if you are a positive, gracious and grateful person. If you look like you ate a bowl of lemons for breakfast, good luck-you may find people avoiding you!

Grateful or gracious people are like a breath of fresh air. They seem to understand that each day is really a gift to be treasured and valued, not an entitlement and therefore, they know how to extend grace and graciousness to others.

When was the last time you said thank you, pat someone on the back, told them how much you appreciated them, or told them they were doing a great job or wrote a note of encouragement? Most often the greatest leadership does happen by example. Want some good things to happen in your life and leadership? Maybe you need to revisit gratitude. Why not become a grateful and gracious person? Maybe a good starting pace is to consider what is right about your life. No matter where we you are in life, I can promise you, there is always someone who has a worse situation to deal with. Come to think of it, it’s really difficult to be grateful and depressed at the same time! So what are you waiting for? Cultivate the lost art of gratitude and watch your perspective and life change. I don’t know about you but I needed the reminder.

Thanks Evie!