Gratitude – Page 8 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Thank you for purchasing, reading, and reviewing Mid Life Celebration

Florida Department of State Division of Corporations — Renewed yesterday, Jan 11. The real MBA comes when you manage your own business administration.

The wait is over. After 46 consecutive five-star reviews, the first non-five star.

Two stars.

Ecstatic to finally get some critical feedback. Seriously. It’s wonderful.

“A very quick read that gets to the heart of mid life. I was a little bothered that the author kept saying ‘you know this.’ All I kept thinking was, then why the heck am I reading this book if I already know it.”

So grateful to the person for investing their money to purchase, investing their time to read and their time to review.

The author could have said in the book, but did’t, that it was written to his young son as a life guide in case something bad ever happened to the dad.

The author (dad) was being intentionally repetitious with the reminder to his son, “You know this.” Yet the dad also is keenly aware of human nature:

To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know.

So grateful. For everything.

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In a perfect world

(photo: Group photo of college buddies and their wives reuniting 30+ years later, on a North Carolina mountain top home of one of the guys.)

In a perfect world, everyone would be happy.

Impossible?

We are in charge of how we view the world.

Many insist you can’t be happy all the time.

Hmmm.

Can we be grateful all the time?

The answer depends on our attitude.

Nothing more, nothing less.

It all comes down to attitude.

And guess what drives our attitude?

Gratitude.

It’s not rocket surgery.

But it does require tremendous focus and discipline.

Which also comes down to attitude.

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Always leading is a form of codependency

(photo: Took a run near a park… caught a fairly rare photo… both of these required one thing – time)

The frail, elderly man in the wheelchair who can barely walk…. is he strong or weak?

The middle-aged men or women racing from one life activity to another… are they strong or weak?

How do we know for certain in either case?

Decided to keep it very casual this visit.

Don’t want every meeting to be predictable. You know… thinker, deliberate, driven, determined, etc.

And don’t want every meeting to be driven by the same person.

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The key difference between a poor attitude and a positive attitude

(photo: Stopped along the roadside to say hello to these gracious gifts from Mother Nature)

The key difference between a poor attitude and a positive attitude has nothing to do with happiness.

Being happy is not the cornerstone of a positive attitude.

Being grateful is.

While being happy all the time may seem impossible, being constantly grateful is anything but.

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The difference between these two makes all the difference

Mental Floss magazine cover — Questions and answers are different yet related – same with happiness and gratitude

It would seem there’s a difference between happy and grateful. A difference that makes all the difference.

The difference between these two makes all the difference:

Happiness
Gratitude

We can be grateful all the time (no exceptions).

This has a contagious side effect though – happiness.

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