Gratitude, Your Looks and True Wealth - A Different Look at Gratitude

I wanted to share the website of one of the guys I love to read after...
Tim Redmond - the Leadership and Wealth Creation Coach
www.redmondleadership.org

• Leaders create rather than react.
• Abundance belongs to those who focus on creating and giving, not consuming and taking.
• Gratitude flows from abundant-minded leaders. It is one of the key drivers of wealth creation.
• Wealth is really the process of creating value.
• When an investor buys a property and the value goes up, it's called appreciation. When it goes down, it's depreciation. Appreciating the people around you actually creates value and increases wealth in your life. Depreciating others never does.
• Ingratitude robs you of power and invites negative, self-defeating feelings. Gratitude gives you power. As light chases away darkness, gratitude drives all negative emotions away.
• The ancient writer Paul wrote, "in everything give thanks." What a powerful way to live!
• Gratitude always improves your looks - it enhances how you look at what you are looking at.
• Gratitude doesn't always change the situation at that moment but it immediately changes the way you look at the situation. It gives you power to lead, create and bring positive change.
• Leadership is a choice.
• Choose to be grateful . . . or not. Gratitude in positive situations AND in challenging ones, too.
• Is your gratitude dependent on others and what they do for you?
• Being grateful for what others do for you is important. But if that's the only time you are grateful, you'll live a shallow, reactive, guilt-ridden life. Poverty-minded people wait for life to happen to them.
• Leaders initiate. Focus on creating value for others and being grateful for the enjoyment it brings. There's someone close to you desperately needing your leadership today!