Let’s consider why gratitude is relevant and crucial to your life, how it adds to job satisfaction at your present work, and how it is a power tool when you seek work or build a new career.

What’s the opposite of gratitude – the feeling and choice to express thanks, appreciation, liking, positivity, and happiness? It’s ingratitude, anger, resentment, irritation, negativity, feeling defeated and rejected. Which one do you want to be run by?

When looking for a job, sending resumes, and interviewing, it’s easy to forget your gratitude and swing with anger and frustration when you’re not getting work.

I encourage you to make the easy choice to see your gratitude facts:

> Being grateful that you can look for work

> That you have a resume you’re proud to send to people and companies

>That people meet and see you and your abilities

> That you can examine the results or interviews and learn and grow

Gratitude counters the feeling of hopelessness. It gives you strength, purpose, and the impetus to create opportunities for success and keep going when it is easier to stop dead in your tracks and feel dejected.

For me, gratitude is a vital, transformative force in my life. I believe in it and have practiced it for years with powerful results. As a coach, I’ve witnessed its simple, lasting ability to give strength and clarity in a moment. Thinking and expressing what you’re grateful for is a potent antidote to negativity, stress, and feeling dispirited.

Gratitude, with its secure elements of thankfulness, optimism, and a sense of good fortune, can counter fear and anxiety, putting you firmly in the driver’s seat of your own life.

In his essay, The Power of Gratitude, Professor of Leadership and Change at INSEAD, Manfred Kets de Vries writes:

“The words grateful and gratitude derive from the archaic adjective “grate” meaning pleasing to the mind, being full of gratitude, or being disposed to repay favors bestowed.

‘Grate’ originates from the Latin ‘gratus’, meaning the readiness to show appreciation for, and to return, kindness. Grateful people count their blessings, have the ability to appreciate the simple pleasures of life, and are always prepared to acknowledge whenever good things happen to them. They are also the kinds of people willing to give something back.”

This is inspiring. Why not study and apply gratitude to yourself and how you live, which includes how you work?

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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This matters too – Gratitude – People – Opportunities at Work.

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