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GRATITUDE FRIDAY
Who or What Deserves Your Gratitude?
Category: Someone, something, animal, vegetable, mineral, living or past
Perhaps we should be thankful for everything. But are we?
What if you changed the question: Is there anything you can’t be grateful for in your past, present, or future?
You can properly deduce the correct answer from the headline and what I have written so far.
Time
Do you have the time to think about everything you should be grateful for all the time? How you spend your time is important. So, maybe it's not your time or attention.
Attitude
Your attitude determines much more than you realize. People with grateful attitudes engage with things around them in ways that make everyone feel better. You might even say they spread gratitude to others.
Over the course of my business life, I’ve been directly or indirectly (through HR) responsible for hiring many people. Some get by and don’t live their life with gratitude, but few know what they want.
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A man in the IT Department generated code for our company's primary product. When the code was…