Monday Morning Motivation – Gratitude
(Sharing Resources to Help You Grow Personally, Professionally & Financially)
Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement — along with a good cup of coffee! — to start the day.
Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content.
Gratitude
This month I’m going to step away from drawing my influence from my friend Zig Ziglar, and go with a few topics that I have become exposed to over the past two years via my Iron Sharpens Iron mastermind group and the men’s group I attend at the Compass Church here in Naperville. The topics for each week for this month will be trials, control, abundance and gratitude. One thing that I have come to realize over the past few years is that moving from success to significance is all about impacting the lives of others. Hopefully you’ll take away an idea or two that will help you to improve your life and the lives of others.
The last three weeks, I’ve taken on the topics of trials , control, and abundance. My purpose was to lay out a framework of facing our day-to-day challenges. To suggest that “letting go and letting God” is a pretty solid recipe; and, one that allows us to fully enjoy all the great things that life offers us.
This week, I’m going to close the loop with the topic of gratitude.
There is a special thing that happens when you give thanks for the awesome things in your life. And by awesome things, I mean the little things that we take for granted:
- The smile of your kid
- The embrace of your spouse
- The sunrise that happens each day
- The kind words of a friend
- The smell of coffee
- And on, and on, and on
We live in the most abundant time in the history of mankind. But many of us are still unhappy because we don’t have enough. We don’t like the trials we face, we try and control everything in our lives, and we fail to recognize just how blessed we are in today’s abundant world. We don’t take the time to give thanks for all the things we have been blessed with. We don’t take the time to express gratitude.
I spent a few months filling out a “gratitude” journal where I listed all the little things that I was thankful for. The result was amazing. My attitude was better AND I saw a lot of things that I had been taking for granted. I’m not still using the journal (shame on me), but it does sit on the corner of my desk and remind me daily to be grateful for the blessings in my life.
That brings me to this week’s question:
- Are you taking the time to express gratitude for the blessings in your life?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning and I wish you all the best for the week.
Curt
(Note: Each week I publish “Monday Morning Motivation” in the hopes that one person will find a bit of inspiration and that inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.)
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At F5 Financial Planning we focus on helping individuals and families find balance between faith, friends and family, fitness and finance. We make sure that they have the financial freedom to enjoy those things in life that are important to them. And while we believe the left-brain facts and data are critical; we work with our clients to get them in the right state of mind to focus on the goals they want to achieve.
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