{"id":2407,"date":"2015-04-19T23:44:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2015-09-30T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:04:53","slug":"three-minute-leadership-on-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2015\/04\/three-minute-leadership-on-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: On Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Maslow\">A.H. Maslow<\/a>, psychologist, wrote:\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u201c(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0In a November 2011 article,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/newsletter_article\/in-praise-of-gratitude\"><em>In Praise of Gratitude<\/em><\/a>, by Harvard Medical School\u2019s Harvard Health Publications, the positive power of gratitude on individuals\u2019 physical and emotional health is explored.\u00a0 It provides a momentary pause for great leaders to reflect on the impact that gratitude has on their lives and on the lives of those whom they serve.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGratitude is a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives, whether tangible or intangible. With gratitude, people acknowledge the goodness in their lives. In the process, people usually recognize that the source of that goodness lies at least partially outside themselves. As a result, gratitude also helps people connect to something larger than themselves as individuals \u2014 whether to other people, nature, or a higher power.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Great leaders know the transformative power of gratitude.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melody_Beattie\">Melody Beattie<\/a>\u00a0writes:\u00a0<em>\u201cGratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0And\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Arthur_Ward\">William Arthur Ward<\/a>\u00a0tells us:\u00a0<em>\u201cGratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Embrace the joy of gratitude and the new eyes and understanding it gives us to better appreciate the beauty outside and, most importantly, the beauty that lies within. That is where miracles find life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a>\u00a0wrote:\u00a0<em>\u201cThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Choose to live your life \u2013 every joyous, spectacular moment of it \u2013 as a miracle \u2026 and with joyous gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1480\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-188x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-188x188.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning A.H. Maslow, psychologist, wrote:\u00a0\u00a0\u201c(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}