Gratitude - What are you thankful for today ?

The last couple of mornings I slept in - Alarm set for 5:30-6:00 am but I hit that blessed snooze button until around 7:00am. As I laid in bed I started to give thanks for the people and things I'm grateful for starting with my relationship with God, my wife and children, our health and the many blessings we have as well as the challenges we face. Just a moment or two on each person to say Thank You and send a great thought to them, a wish of good health and happiness.

I thought about the wonderful people in our lives, the friends we cherish, the ones we miss and the ones we're re-connecting with. I receive this sense of peace and happiness and every time I do this, I seem to get centered and focused and I realize how connected we really are even when we feel alone. I think it has a bit to do with clearing out the meaningless mind chatter, being receptive and the mastermind principle that Napoleon Hill talks so much about.

It's interesting how I seem to meet the most amazing people when I have this feeling of gratefulness - this week I had coffee with a wonderful lady, she's experiencing some major challenges right now but her belief, desire ,caring nature and drive to make a difference tell me that this is a time of renewal and growth and that when this passes she'll be stronger, reach higher and make an even larger impact.

I've been and am so very blessed to have many people in my life I'm grateful for and I'm thankful that I keep meeting more. In my business I've found some of the most giving and gracious people that helped me learn and grow - both as a person and a professional. I'm grateful for them and the mentoring and mastermind group they've created - amazing to me how much I've learned and that they've opened it to anyone. It shows they understand the principle of gratitude and team work. We can help more people, accomplish more ourselves, grow faster in development as a group with no agendas, no surprises and with people from many companies and places all focused together on making a difference.

There are few things greater than a group of like minded people all focused on the same task - when that kind of synergy takes place, mountains can be moved and the world changed.

We easily recognize these grateful people as we meet them - they have an authenticity about them that makes it easy to talk and share. I hope you take a few minutes to think about what and who your grateful for and to say " Thank You - you've made a difference in my life "


Kyle Steiner
mentorkyle@yahoo.com
612-220-6912
www.mentorkyle.info - to see the book that introduced me to this group...

p.s.
As I was finishing this post, my two year old woke, so I peeked in on her, got a great big smile - picked her up and got our good morning hug. I put her on the potty and woke my five year old (tried too at least - he likes to linger in bed) and as I was waking the six year old, the two year old peed on her floor. Missed a step somewhere - didn't I. Nonetheless. I'm so grateful for the mornings I get with my family, even when things get messy, because there's nothing in the world like tickling my kids into wakefulness, the smile on their faces (most of the time),and the lessons learned about putting your books where they can't be peed on -lol.