Do you find that you're complaining about things happening around you more
than you're appreciating them? Or do you find that people around you are just
miserable? Well guess what? It is time for an attitude adjustment and I'm here to
show you how to do it. The only experience and look at life is really
critical to our happiness and this is no different than in our workplace. We have
really busy lives nowadays, and if anything, we tend to be on autopilot and
not realize how our interaction is with other people and sometimes that
interaction can be a little bit on the more negative side, a little bit of
misery loves company, and it is really interesting that the more positive we
are the more ways we have to see opportunities around us, and so I would
like to teach you today, is how to bring gratitude in your life so that you can
have a more positive working and personal environment. So what are the top
4 ways to bring gratitude in your life? Well the first one is something I
absolutely love and as a favorite and something we do here at CornerStone
Dynamics, and that is a gratitude board. We actually have a board on a door
walking out of the office that allows anyone to write down what they're
grateful for. Acknowledging what you're grateful for, particularly when perhaps
maybe you don't have any gratitude, really switches the mood, and I highly
recommend it. So it could be something very in-depth and personal to you that
you experienced that day, or it could be something just like the weather, whether
it's raining or sunny out, in fact right now it's raining outside and I would say
I'm very grateful to have rain for our flowers and that is a wonderful
gratitude to have. Another way to bring gratitude into your life, whether it's at
work or home, are gratitude cards. Now these are things, I'm just going to reach
into my pockets, that we at CornerStone do all the time. So we have an
appreciation and what am I grateful for. And I use these in workshops all the
time, I bring them to my clients, we share them with each other, we give them to
each other, even internally in our office, but can you imagine if you gave this to
your spouse or even your kids too. What a difference it makes! Now we actually have
these printed up, you don't have to do that, you can actually just do a simple
index card, but giving someone a gratitude card and really thinking about
it, and not having them repeat it, and just giving it to them and walking away
so they can read it and really take in what you're grateful for really has a
huge positive impact and I highly recommend that too. Another
really great way to bring gratitude in your life both professionally and
personally is to have a gratitude journal. Right here! And what you do is
you write three to five things in this gratitude journal that you are grateful
for at the end of the day. It's a reflection, so you can take a look and
see, you know what, whether you had a tough day or a good day,
there are real positive things, and it does switch your mood and the beauty of
having a gratitude journal and everything in it, is that if you are
having a bad day, guess what, you can flip through it and you can take a look at
some past gratitudes to lift your spirits up. Last but not least, quality
thank-yous! Now what do I mean by a quality thank you, is not hey thanks for
doing that, because sometimes it's just kind of like
a blanket 'hey' without us really thinking about it, I'm talking about a really good
quality thank you. If someone did a huge favor for you, it's critical to say 'hey I
want to thank you for that' but put some heart into it and say 'hey Joan I really
appreciate you doing that for me I know how busy you are and it really helped me
out that you were able to get that done for me, because it helped me with ABCD.'
That quality thank you really has more meaning than just a hey thanks, or even
an email sent out that just says thanks for doing this. Because guess what,
appreciation and thank-yous can go a long way and bring out people's moods
and the gratitude, particularly at work, can you imagine if we all thanked each
other for helping each other out it would be really cool culture shift. So
why bring gratitude in your life? Well gratitude is a powerful mood changer, and
in our times where we spend most of our time at work during the week, having a
positive attitude is critical so you can enjoy what you're doing, and more
importantly, as I've said before, see those doors of opportunity that are all
around us. It's really hard to see the door of opportunity when you're negative.
You're really closed off to it, so by changing your mood and shifting it, you
see them, which lead to actually more ideas innovation, more efficiency, and
effectiveness for yourself and how cool would that be if everyone had that
attitude! It'd actually be a really great working environment, something that is so
important and we talk about all the time in the business world, great culture! Well
gratitude is a wonderful way to get that done. In conclusion, I have gratitude for
you the viewer, thank you so much for taking the time to watch
this video, and I hope that you will take a look at my channel and see some other
information that will help you be more effective and efficient, working smarter
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because how cool is it to pass your own gratitude and have a more happier,
healthier, productive way of living. Thanks! See you in the next video