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“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”<\/em>\u00a0— Eckhart Tolle<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Leadership\u00a0is the most important quality for ANY business,\u00a0group, or Team.\u00a0Leaders\u00a0make critical decisions, inspire teamwork, and they completely\u00a0are responsible for the trajectory of all.\u00a0Leaders\u00a0come in many forms and styles, and have a realm of different techniques and approaches. However, the one thing all of the BEST\u00a0leaders\u00a0have in common is the love, respect, and appreciation of their very own team!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I personally believe that\u00a0gratitude\u00a0is THE foundational element of\u00a0leadership.\u00a0 In fact, if your\u00a0leadership\u00a0actions aren\u2019t flowing from a core of\u00a0gratitude, you\u2019re most likely an ineffective leader. In fact, I can almost guarantee that.\u00a0Leadership\u00a0is all or nothing \u2013 you\u2019re either doing it or you\u2019re not. To lead well, you must\u00a0relentlessly\u00a0take care and\u00a0appreciate your people.\u00a0 To take care of your people, you have to know them; and to know them, you have to spend time with them. In order to do that with the right levels of authenticity and intentionality \u2013 and inspire incredible amounts of trust with your team \u2013 you must genuinely care for the growth of your\u00a0people.\u00a0 And you can\u2019t really genuinely care if you\u2019re personally not grateful for\u00a0your blessings. As\u00a0leaders,\u00a0we must carefully cultivate our own personal spirit of\u00a0gratitude, which then spills over to our Team. How we treat people will cause a cascading effect for us and our people to give credit to the team when things go well \/ take personal responsibility when things go poorly, and so on and so on. So bottom line, a spirit of\u00a0gratitude\u00a0is often at the root of great\u00a0leadership, and should, therefore, be cultivated and tended to with the utmost care!\u00a0
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Some people claim they are just “not wired” to show\u00a0gratitude.\u00a0I want to call out this myth if you think this is you. While we are born with predispositions – warmer or colder, more sensitive to positive or negative circumstances, these are not “life sentences”.\u00a0Gratitude, like other character traits, is a matter of choice. We SHOULD have developed it from an example in our youth, but as we know, that doesn\u2019t always happen. But it is learned. Through practice, we can wire our brains to express\u00a0gratitude. It becomes a matter of choosing to move beyond our comfortable predisposition towards an approach to life that better serves us as leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we begin to practice gratitude, the goal here is to live gratefully\u2014to make it part of who we are. Gratitude then extends to everyone in our lives. It is not just something we do at work to increase our productivity, but we take it home and express it to those people that mean the most to us. If we practice gratitude with all the people in our lives, we\u2019ll find that they respond just as well as our Team does. When we express genuine gratitude to our family, friends, and all those we encounter throughout our day, we also give ourselves more moments of joy. One of the great ironies of personal relationships is that we so often take those who mean the most to us for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we conclude on the subject of gratitude\u00a0for the week – I am personally grateful for the wisdom that God has instilled in me. My daily prayer is that I will continue to personally grow every single day and use my God given talents so that I can be of value to everyone around me to\u00a0help them grow into the\u00a0best version of themselves. I am also grateful to have seen how much growth has come not just from my direct leadership Team, but also for the hundreds of\u00a0leaders\u00a0that have grown in their own\u00a0leadership\u00a0and been inspired over the past few years as a result of my teachings. I appreciate all of your feedback (the good, bad, and ugly), and look forward to\u00a0what the future holds for additional growth. I also cannot close this out without mentioning my incredible wife, and biggest fan, Brandi. She reads my teachings every morning, sees me in action every day, and is always supportive when I need it and gives me great feedback that helps me personally grow as a dad and leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Benjamin Franklin said this – “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


To all who are reading this, remember that we are all just getting started! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blessings and sincerest Gratitude,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Gembel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”\u00a0— Eckhart Tolle Leadership\u00a0is the most important quality for ANY business,\u00a0group, or Team.\u00a0Leaders\u00a0make critical decisions, inspire teamwork, and they completely\u00a0are responsible for the trajectory of all.\u00a0Leaders\u00a0come in many forms and styles, and have a realm of different techniques and approaches. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}