Transformative Tales of Gratitude and Growth

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In today's special Thanksgiving episode, I place emphasis on the power of gratitude in the face of unexpected outcomes. I invite my team to share personal and professional disappointments, focusing on how these events, initially perceived as negative, eventually revealed themselves as protective and promoting forces in their lives. From job dissatisfaction to health crises, each story uncovers the hidden blessings found in adversity. We explore how maintaining a positive outlook and embracing gratitude can transform our perception of challenging times. Join us in this reflective journey of finding light, love, and lessons in every situation. Happy Thanksgiving, and remember to express gratitude in all circumstances.

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0:00.0	Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and to incorporate it into my business as a daily activity, but every year we have an exercise of gratitude and this year it's about our human capability of not knowing and our human capability of not understanding outcomes.
0:20.0	If we can be grateful for the future even though we don't understand outcomes or know how meaningful those outcomes are, we will have gratitude the future. other words faith to find the light the love and the lessons in everything
0:39.5	Enjoy this incredible Thanksgiving and our yearly exercise.
0:45.0	Join me for the 14 day gratitude challenge.
0:50.0	Email me David at demelter.com. Not to me is what Thanksgiving is about.
0:55.4	As quickly as you can to be grateful.
1:00.6	What we're really grateful for is outcomes.
1:03.6	As I'm looking at how gratitude works
1:07.1	to make our lives better,
1:09.7	there's an emotional attachment
1:12.0	in the relativity of how behavior works.
1:14.2	So good behavior creates good progress.
1:16.4	We said that as well, which creates a need to have faith.
1:20.9	Because if an outcome occurs and you have no capability of understanding or knowing how this outcome,
1:29.0	how you can be grateful for this outcome, like the worst things that could happen in your mind like going
1:34.2	bankrupt for me was one of the worst things I could ever imagine so when that
1:39.1	outcome occurred it was gratitude of the future.
1:44.4	Understanding one, I have no capability
1:46.4	of knowing or understanding how losing everything
1:49.4	could be protecting and promoting me, not punishing me.
1:52.7	If you would mind sharing a personal or professional disappointment
1:58.8	an outcome that you didn't expect or you thought you didn't want and how in retrospect you now
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