116: How to Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2013
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
You might be thinking about giving thanks this week, but how’s your overall attitude about gratitude? In this episode, I share five ways you can adjust your attitude to work for the better.
Before we start: Episode #9 is the place to go on how to give positive feedback to others
1. Stop the complaining by receiving praise well
- Don’t discount it
- Don’t argue with it
- Don’t ignore it
- Just say “thank you”
Acknowledge that you are worthy of praise
If you don’t think you are, just try it a couple of times.
Discover the Difference Between Feedback and Criticism
2. Remember the dark days
3. Be intentional about making gratitude a regular practice
- Use a gratitude journal
- Bonni writes a post every day in November on Facebook
- Have more “get tos” than “got tos”
- I’ll be doing a #weekofgratitude this week on my Twitter account
4. What can I do to help someone today
- “The smallest act is worth more than the grandest intention.”
5. Look to those who are examples of gratitude for inspiration
“So many people have helped me to come here to this night. Some of you are here, some are far away and some are even in Heaven. All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are, those who have cared about you and wanted what was best for you in life. 10 seconds of silence. I’ll watch the time.
Whomever you’ve been thinking about, how pleased they must be to know the difference you feel they’ve made.” -Fred Rogers in 1997
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| 0:00.0 | You might be thinking about giving thanks this week, but how's your overall attitude about gratitude? |
| 0:07.0 | Stick around because that's today's topic. |
| 0:10.0 | This is coaching for Leaders, episode 116. |
| 0:14.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:19.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:26.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:31.0 | This is a weekly coaching show to help people be better leaders through improved communication, |
| 0:37.0 | human relations, and personal productivity, the people side of business, the people's side of organizations, and just the people |
| 0:45.4 | side of interacting in general to influence others. |
| 0:49.0 | And this week, an important topic about people cultivating the attitude of gratitude that so many of us recognize |
| 0:57.5 | as important to have in our personal lives, to have in our our organizations and yet so many of us struggle with it. |
| 1:06.1 | I know I do. |
| 1:07.4 | And this is something that is a natural topic for a lot of us this time of the year because it is the holiday season and in many many |
| 1:14.8 | parts of the world regardless of what faith tradition you're a part of or with |
| 1:19.8 | a culture many many cultures and faith traditions are celebrating the holidays and it's the holiday spirit |
| 1:26.7 | and we're thinking about the things we're grateful for and particularly this week here in the United States. |
| 1:31.2 | It is Thanksgiving week, it is the time of year that we stand back and do some |
| 1:37.1 | thinking on the things that we are thankful for. And there have been many, many shows |
| 1:42.3 | and articles over the years on how to be thankful. |
| 1:46.0 | And all those things are important, but even more important than that is how do we generally cultivate an attitude of gratitude not just this week but every |
| 1:56.4 | this whole season this whole this whole time of the year and most importantly of course |
| 2:06.7 | being the kind of person that does that any day of the year Now before we start and talk about cultivating an attitude of gratitude I should mention that I've done a podcast previously |
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