Gratitude can help your business grow
| Happy Thanksgiving everyone! What a perfect opportunity to shine some light on giving thanks and recognizing gratitude in the business arena. Let me begin by saying that I am grateful for the opportunity Island Times Magazine and my own coaching practice has given me to offer business insights tips, hints and tools which can help businesses succeed. It is my passion to assist businesses and their owners any way that I can to harness their strength, creativity and unique products or service. Allow me to share some powerful reasons why you might consider how gratitude can actually help you grow your business. Dr. Robert Emmons of the University of California at Davis, and Dr. Michael McCollough of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas conducted "The Research Project on Gratitude and Thanksgiving". The results of the study revealed that daily gratitude exercises significantly resulted in higher levels of alertness, enthusiasm, optimism, determination and energy. In other words, people who used regular "grateful exercises" experienced more success in achieving their goals. On a practical level, the study also showed that members of the gratitude group experienced less depression, stress, and exercised more regularly. Each of the results is of direct benefit to entrepreneurs and business leaders. Grateful entrepreneurs and leaders are more focused and better able to handle every day challenges that occur in business, and they model gratitude for their team. One way to enhance the gratitude process is to create a special object, which is small enough to carry in your pocket, and use it as a touching point to remind you throughout the day what you are grateful for in your life. In stead of using a rock, a bracelet, a coin, a bead, a button, even a key can be used. Each morning, as you place the object in your pocket and every time you touch the object, think about what you currently have in your business that you are grateful for. At the end of the day, when you empty your pockets, think of your day and all the things that you are grateful for. |
While many of the study's results are about personal benefits, there is an additional result that the gratitude group was also more likely to help others. While many managers focus on personal results, and periodically acknowledge outstanding efforts showing gratitude regularly and deliberately is what defines business leaders.
My challenge for you and your business this month is to find something every day to be grateful for. Perhaps write out key points about the experience as a reminder to yourself that you would like to recreate more experiences like this one. Additionally find someone doing something well and let them know how grateful you are for their great job. Not only might you shift your energy and direct results, you likely will change someone else's too!
Laurel A. Hillton, MCC, L.S.I., LSC Laurel Hillton Business Coaching International www.LaurelHilltonBusinessCoaching.com Do you have a recurring Business challenge? Why not write in and ask our Business Coach... My biggest recurring business challenge is: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ What I would really like to work on in my business is: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ email: BusinessCoach@islandtimesmagazine.ca |
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