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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

199: John Kralik - The Power of Gratitude (A Simple Act of Gratitude)

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Careers, Management

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Episode 199: John Kralik - The Power of Gratitude (A Simple Act of Gratitude)

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"Until you are grateful for what you have, you won't get what you want."

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • Common themes of leaders who sustain excellence:
    • Being grateful for what you have will lead to continued excellence
  • How his second divorce impacted him: "The second time around, it's your fault"
  • The power of writing thank you notes -- Learned from his grandfather
  • "Until you are grateful for what you have, you won't get what you want."
  • Writing one thank you note per day for one year
  • "When you're negative, you're angry."
  • His thank you note to his son prompted his son to take him out to lunch... What happened next? Life changing
  • "He took out an envelope and paid me back $4,000 that he owed me." - 
  • Writing all of your employees thank you notes: Why you should do this but most don't
  • "Instead of being mad about my bad clients, I started thanking my good ones." -- The impact this had on John's business was immense
  • "It turns out the one thing I had to be grateful for was my 8 year old daughter." -- "She loved this awful little apartment we lived in"
  • "There are so many things to be grateful for"
  • "When things don't go well, stay positive, stay grateful... Good things WILL happen"
  • How to shift a negative mindset? -- Use a pen, write it out. Write thank you notes.  Use gratitude journals.  Trying to find out the person's address without asking them is part of the fun and the surprise.
  • John has written over 1,100 thank you notes since starting this process
  • Focus on the people supporting you everyday.  Say thank you
  • How to write a great thank you note? -- John describes:
    • 4 Sentences
    • Always start with "thank you"
    • Recognize the gift (or whatever they've done that's created your gratitude)
    • Write one true sentence -- Why you're grateful
    • Tell that person what they mean to you
  • Listen as John reads a thank you note he wrote to his daughter (you might cry).

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Episode edited by the great J Scott Donnell

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You send out this gratitude in a tangible way,

0:04.0

and the tangible way that I found was,

0:06.5

thank you notes.

0:08.0

And it comes back to you.

0:10.0

Hey and welcome to the Learning Leader's Show. I am Ryan Hawk.

0:16.8

Thanks so much for being here. What an important conversation this was with my featured leader. I'm honored to have

0:23.8

Mitch John Kralik, best-selling author of a book titled A Simple Act of

0:28.0

Gratitude. How learning to say thank you changed my life. And this book is a life changer. I would encourage people to

0:34.8

invest and it John shares how his life was not going as planned in 2008. He's

0:42.4

walking the hills of California and made a decision

0:45.3

based upon the fact that he received a thank you note and how it positively

0:49.0

impacted him. He thought what if I wrote 365 thank you notes this year and see if it could possibly

0:55.5

impact my life by showing gratitude by focusing on the things he did have as opposed to the

1:02.0

negatives? And that's what Gen. did have as opposed to the negatives.

1:03.2

And that's what Jen and I discussed during this conversation.

1:06.4

In addition to that, we talked about the power of living

1:08.8

a grateful life and how it could positively impact you. Then how to change your mindset and focus on the positive aspects as opposed to the

1:16.8

negatives and an example of writing a great thank you note how we all can do this immediately.

1:23.3

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so grateful for John Kralik.

1:27.0

All right, John, thanks so much for being here on the Learning Leaders Show. Welcome to

1:36.7

you, Ryan, it's a privilege. I, you know, I was just telling you in our pre-recording conversation that your book, A Simple

1:46.6

Act of Gratitude, is one that I sent out in my weekly email, I call it a Mindful mindful Mondays that I sent out and said this is a life

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