Mule

The buzzword in business podcasts I listen to these days is "gratitude".  Big shot business guys, motivational speakers all want to show people the power of gratitude.  But listening to the last couple I hear a common theme - show gratitude and things will go better for you. Thats. Not. The. Point. Gratitude is not about you, it's about them.  It's not a pat on the back of all the nice things you have and on the back of all the bad things that have left you alone. Sure its beneficial to all the parties involved.  But it has to start well before, "thanks."  I heard Scott Sinek say, "the nice things aren't for you, they are for your position. You deserve a styrofoam cup." Gratitude starts with humility. We see our shortcomings, we understand how undeserving we are. Then we check our ambition and learn to see the things we have in that humility- our friends, our families, our jobs. This is what we've got at the moment, so we find the good parts. We find the good parts are better than we thought, given to us, the styrofoam cups.  We show people our thankfulness. Thats gratitude.