Mindful Leaders know practicing gratitude is always in season, and the science backs this up, because the benefits and impact are both immediately evident and continue to ripple long after the grateful gesture....
As I see it, the preeminent question for our time is – how will we cultivate peace in ourselves, with others, and in our world? Peace feels out of reach right now. Every day the news brings us a drumbeat of despair and desperation—so many lives lost to war, and so much vitriol in our society. Detaching from the news does not change the reality the world is in deep pain. For me, when I see children suffering and dying, it breaks my heart....
We have all had grievances at one time or another, large and small. They are a reality of our workplace experiences and general lives....
We ended last year in silence (https://mindful-leaders.com/ending-a-year-in-silence/) as a way to find solace and peace with all we had lived through in 2020. This year we end with gratitude. We appreciate and honor all we have in our lives, past and present, and we acknowledge all the possibilities ahead of us....