Episode 027: Gratitude: My Secret Ingredient for Success
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Cicero
In this episode, Brian Buffini delves into the spirit of gratitude. Sharing his philosophy through anecdotes and powerful quotes, Brian inspires listeners to show more gratitude in their daily lives.
You’ll learn why an attitude of gratitude is so important, the reason gratitude changes the heart and how the act of writing it down can transform your mindset. This is not just an episode to listen to during the Thanksgiving season; it’s an episode to revisit throughout the year.
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“Principles don’t change, tactics do.” — Brian Buffini
“Lives that are built on principles tend to do well.” — Brian Buffini
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Cicero
“A life of character that is full of virtue is one that will stand the test of time.” — Brian Buffini
“Gratitude as an attitude of the heart has nothing to do with what you have or what you don’t have.” — Brian Buffini
“Kids don’t listen to what you say; they’re too busy looking at what you do.” — Brian Buffini
“It costs nothing to say ‘please’ or ‘thank you.’” — Therese Buffini
“Gratitude not expressed is the same as ingratitude.” — Brian Buffini
“Gratitude stands for ‘great attitude.’” — Zig Ziglar
“Gratitude brings energy to the spirit.” — Brian Buffini
“We miss out on the good life because we miss out on the spirit of gratitude.” — Brian Buffini
“Gratitude can turn common days into Thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” — Henry Van Dyke
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” —Melody Beattie
“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” — Kristin Armstrong
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brian Bafini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies |
| 0:19.3 | of success. |
| 0:20.3 | Here's your host, Brian Bafini. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you, and thanks for joining me on today's episode of |
| 0:37.1 | the Brian Bafini show. |
| 0:38.9 | We're very excited to have you. |
| 0:40.7 | Today, I'm going to cover a subject that is very, very near and dear to my own heart. |
| 0:46.9 | I would say this particular topic is probably one of the cornerstones of what I call the |
| 0:54.7 | Good Life, and it is definitely the cornerstone of my own business, of the business systems |
| 1:00.3 | I teach. |
| 1:01.6 | It's the cornerstone, one of the cornerstones of my family's life. |
| 1:06.0 | It is a cornerstone philosophy and attitude towards life that has transformed me to be |
| 1:12.1 | quite honest with you. |
| 1:13.7 | Don't have it perfect, a lot of work, still to be done in this area. |
| 1:17.5 | It's a day by day process, but today we're going to talk about gratitude, and we're going |
| 1:22.8 | to talk about its power. |
| 1:24.8 | We're doing this to kind of commemorate and coincide with the American Thanksgiving. |
| 1:30.2 | The Americans and the Canadians, to the best of my knowledge are the two countries that |
| 1:35.2 | have established a holiday that's called Thanksgiving. |
| 1:39.0 | What a brilliant concept, and it's been around a long time. |
| 1:42.0 | One of the things that I always like to talk about is that even though we're living in |
| 1:45.6 | a modern world and high tech and new tech comes along, it seems like every hour of every |
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