The Business Leadership Wikipedia: Gratitude Attitude

How would it affect your leadership if you yourself became a symbol of limitless abundance?

The attitude of gratitude is the single most powerful way to accelerate the credibility, value and growth of your leadership in your organization.

One of my favorite symbols is the horn of plenty (cornucopia), which appears on centerpieces around the holiday of Thanksgiving. It's an ancient symbol of limitless abundance.

Picture yourself as a business leader being the personification of plenty to those around you. When you yourself are "limitless abundance" in the eyes of others, your influence in the organization will dramatically grow. You can make this happen by activating an attitude of gratitude in five specific ways.

Five ways to activate an attitude of gratitude and be a cornucopia Personification of Plenty in your organization:

1) See all life as a gift. The attitude of gratitude is an exercise in expanding your awareness. How can you recapture the awareness, curiosity, limitless possibility thinking and wonder of your childhood? It was a time when you expected gifts to appear everywhere. The world's most successful organizations have found that things like "play" and openness to the unexpected keep them on the creative, innovative cutting edge. Leaders who see all life as a gift tend to promote a culture of awareness, possibility and expectation. This expectation becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, setting limitless results in motion. Look for one or more unexpected gifts each day in the work place. Expect gifts and you will attract gifts. The more you do this, the more you will begin to take on the nature and image of the Personification of Plenty in your own thinking and self-awareness .

2) Find the gift in yourself. Business leaders who are in the attitude of gratitude naturally identify new and overlooked resources and possibilities in themselves. They are more open to try new approaches, utilize innate gifts that have been lying dormant, trust in their inner guidance. Gratitude puts us in a very positive place--a place of awareness and expectation--and that is where innovation and business growth happen. How can you look for, expect, identify and name one or more gifts within yourself each day? The more you do this, the more you will begin to take on the nature and image of the Personification of Plenty in your organization .

3) Find the gift in your team. Your team is that group of individuals who most closely support you in achieving your goals, whatever your level of leadership or the nature of your business. As we become familiar with the people on our teams, it's a temptation to decide what they "can" and "cannot" do based on artificial determining factors like titles, formal education or even past perception and performance. Do your team members see you as limiting or as expanding their possibilities? Ask them. How can you look for, expect, identify and name one or more gifts in your team members each day? The more you do this, the more your team members will begin to see you as the Personification of Plenty.

4) Find the gift in your organizational environment. When you consider the resources of your organization, do you see them as limited or limitless? In a time when the economy is challenged and budgets are being cut back, it's a temptation to operate from a scarcity mentality. Such a mentality holds that resources are limited and dwindling and therefore we must hold on to and maintain what we've got before it runs out . A scarcity maintenance mentality only adds momentum to growth-limiting forces. On the other hand, how can you look for, expect, identify and name one or more new resources in your organization each day? The more you do this, the more resources will begin to surface and your organization will see you as the Personification of Plenty.

5) Find the gift in the marketplace. When you think of your market today, what impressions come to mind? Are they impressions of limited, dwindling opportunity, or expansive, growing opportunity? What new business opportunities do your clients hold? When did you last interview your clients to determine unmet needs? In #1-4 above you identified resources and gifts in yourself, your team and your organization. What new market possibilities do these resources indicate? How can you look for, expect, identify and name one or more resources in your market each day? The more you do this, the more resources will begin to surface, and your market audience will see you as the Personification of Plenty.

Happy Thanksgiving from 1st Insight Communications! Let this Thanksgiving have an unforgetable impact on your business leadership as you grow a gratitude attitude and become the Personification of Plenty in your organization.

DavidSmith

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David Smith is the CEO of 1st Insight Communications: Business Leadership Coaching for Accelerated Results. He is also the visionary creator of The Business Leadership Wikipedia.

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