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Lift Yourself Up with Daily Gratitude |
| Written by Mary Welch |
| December 21, 2009 |
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“If you are happy and keep the window to your life open, your happiness will be infectious to those around you,” she says. “If you are dark, then people will leave you alone and give up. But, if you are happy, then so is your team and you can all walk together through the pain and get away from it.”
It all goes back to the glass half full or empty, says Randy Siegel, CEO of BuildYourLeaders.com. “It is attitude. Are you going to do something that will enrich your life and those around you? That is a decision that should be made every day,” says Siegel, who posts a daily dose of gratitude on his Facebook page. “There is no question that people would rather be around people who are positive as opposed to energy vampires,” Siegel says. “People can read your energy. If you are a leader, do you want people on your team who suck the energy out of the room? Or do you want people who choose to be positive and upbeat and focus on the job?” Motivational speaker and writer Tricia Molloy notes that appreciating the positive is an asset in business and in life. “I believe in an attitude journal,” she says. “Every day, write about what you are grateful for as well as people you are grateful for. If you write that you are grateful for a good night’s sleep, subconsciously it will happen. If you are grateful and write about how you can make things better, subconsciously, it will happen.” Molloy even takes it as far as to express gratitude for a co-worker or boss who “pushes all your buttons. Try going an entire week without criticizing that person. In fact, every day write down something nice about that person. It could something as minute as ‘she has nice shoes’ or ‘he teaches me patience.’ You will find that at the end of the week, you will be transformed and your relationship will be transformed. You will find ways to interact with that person, and it elevates not only your relationship but your business performance.” Rev. Andrew Cannon, youth minister at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta, also puts it in a business perspective. “Giving is at the heart of God's creativity,” he says. “Gratefulness empowers our participation in that creativity.” Molloy admits that sometimes it is hard to be grateful, but she points out that fear and gratitude “reside at the same place.” You may be grateful for your job but afraid you’ll lose it. But if you go to a space of gratitude, the fear will dissipate. You always can’t be proactive. Sometimes you will lose your job and there is nothing you can do about it. But if you stay in the place of gratitude, you will be lifted above that fear.”  Mary Welch is Atlanta city editor of Womenetics: and a freelance writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Dawson Times, Plan Your Meeting magazine, and Atlanta Business magazine. She was editor-in-chief of Atlanta Woman magazine and editor of Business to Business and Catalyst magazines.
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