Hey Team,
Gratitude.
Gratitude; is the quality of feeling of being thankful, pleased, or appreciative.
This is something I feel I do not show enough to the people who give so much to me.
It takes a man to step back from reality to truly realize and understand how much others are willing to give, and actually thank them for it.
People want to do you favors. They want it to be easy to help you, to establish a relationship. I truly believe the core and essence of every person on this earth is a good heart; a heart that will help you in a time of need.
Showing gratitude to others opens them up to realizing what you do for them as well, and gives them the go ahead to return the act of kindness and respect you just showed them previously. Acts of gratitude are done without greed.
They are done because you have the honest feeling of appreciation of someone for one reason or another. It’s giving them value. Its showing them you not only recognize what a good person they are, but you want to bring that person out more in the open. You want others to see and appreciate that person for those things as well. When the people around said person you showed your gratitude to see this, they appreciate that person that much more. They now strive to receive those compliments of thankfulness, and to replicate the act in which it took to receive such a humble act.
What if you showed gratitude to everyone who truly deserved it in your life? How much more likely do you think that person would replicate and/or embrace the similar acts?
People want you to see them for who they are, not who they are always able to portray in every setting. Situations always create different ways in which a person can show who they really are, and no one has grown to the level where they are one-hundred percent in the moment at all times throughout their entire life.
Every interaction you have has a different level of understanding, every interaction is different. If you are just meeting a person, for instance at a bar, it can be sometimes difficult to tell whether this person wants to genially meet you. How do we break through this vicious cycle of unknown geniality?
Gratitude.
Tell people why you believe they are someone worthy of getting to know better.
The example used above at a bar is only one example. The truth is; you should be showing gratitude to everyone, where you see fit, in your life. If there is a certain act or trait about someone you really are thankful for, let that person know. Not only will it bring that out more in them, and help shape the person they are growing in to, but it is guiding a path of creation to more of the same act or trait when you are in their quarters.
Have you ever returned to an old group of friends and been treated the same way you were treated when you left?
This is because you shaped they way everyone will treat you with the level of gratitude you showed them, and they will act accordingly. If you never showed them gratitude, they won’t know how to act around you. They will just assume you two never saw eye to eye. That is ok. You are a new person now.
I am a strong believer in it’s never too late.
Tell them why you appreciated them back when you were friends. Give them a reason to want to do the same to you. I promise you will both feel lifted from the exchange of feelings.
I didn’t get too mushy on you there did I?
Ok good.
God bless,
Heath
Thank you John.