Let me start by suggesting that all action comes from a place of non-action. Before you take a step, your body is still. I want you to put yourself in that place of non-action, and take a moment to consider who you are being in the moment before action takes over and can cloud things.
Think of it like a soup. If you’re making beef soup, whatever else you put into the pot (vegetables, potatoes, etc.) is going to taste like beef. The flavor is driven by the broth. It’s analogous to your point of non-action that is like the broth. Whatever comes from that is going to carry the same flavor.
Now, back to gratitude. When you’re thankful for family, friends, clients, America, this becomes the flavor of the broth. All action that comes from this place is flavored by it. When you’re in a place of gratitude and thankfulness, it shifts who it is you’re being. It serves us because it flavors every action moving forward.
Let’s say something makes you really angry. That emotion affects, flavors if you will, every action you’re about to take and every word that is about to come out of your mouth.
When you can be conscious of who you’re being, stacking the probabilities in your favor – as with gratitude, that flavors all following actions. Obviously, those actions coming from a place of gratitude will be far superior to those that evolve from anger or any negative emotion. Gratitude will always lead you to a way of being that serves you. Gratitude will always be in the best interest of you and your business.
Remain present in what you are thankful for. When you do, you are playing at an advantage. That advantage might last ten minutes, ten hours, or ten days. The more often you can remind yourself to focus on gratitude, the longer your advantage plays out. Continually remind yourself of all the good things for which you’re thankful, even if that means notes on your monitor or your mirror. When you have these reminders and focus on them, you are stacking your deck to win.
As we know to be true at Getting Results, whatever you focus on you get more of. Or, “You are the sun and whatever you shine upon shall grow.”
Consider the gap versus gain. I am certain that since you’re reading this, you have far, far more in you gain column than your gap column. Yes, as humans, we have a natural psychological tendency to look at the gap – the lack. Here’s why that is: the positive does not kill you.
Looking back thousands of years, everything was pretty much trying to kill us. There may have been moments when we had a successful hunt that resulted in full bellies; however, starvation could be right around the corner… or the saber-toothed tiger waiting to pounce as we reclined by the fire having enjoyed a full repast.
We survived for thousands of years by keeping focus on that which may kill us, and that was not the positive that was occurring around us. Tendency to focus on the negative is hard-wired, even genetically ingrained, so now we must actively work to focus on the positive and presence ourselves on the many gains we have. Again, it serves us because it flavors all of our actions moving forward.
Start every day from your place of abundance and gratefulness, that I know you have… because you’re reading this.
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