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JKNspire Your Day: Gratitude is an Attitude For the next few days, I'm gonna try something different with my posts. I wanna show gratitude through our social media ⚡️ Why? Well, first, being grateful in our everyday lives helps us focus on the positives and not let setbacks bring us down. Second, wouldn't it be awesome to attract more grateful clients and prospects? I think so! So let's give this experiment a shot, and I can't wait to hear your results! Before you dismiss it as fluffy content, here are some stats on how gratitude can benefit your biz 📊 ✅ A 2014 study found that thanking new acquaintances makes them more likely to want an ongoing relationship. So go ahead and show appreciation for those who add value to your day! ✅ Grateful people handle negative feedback better, as proven by a 2012 study from the University of Kentucky. The more grateful we are, the easier it is to brush off those snarky comments we hate 🙅♂️ ✅ Countless studies prove that gratitude makes you happier and healthier. And if you're happier and healthier, you'll live longer! More time to put into your biz goals means more profit 💰 Gratitude = money, baby! It makes total sense to me 😜 Each day, I'll give you a prompt to get in the gratitude zone and gain some insight into you and your biz. Have fun with it, and be sure to share your results in the FB group! 💪 So, what's something you see every day that makes you happy? 🌞 Tips and tricks: ✨ It could be personal, like a spouse, child, or pet 🐶 ✨ It could be lighthearted, like my relationship with coffee ☕️ ✨ Or maybe it's business-related, like my BFF the wifi router 📶 #justsaying Photo ideas: 📸 Snap a pic of the object 📸 Capture a place that brings you joy 📸 Show off your big smile 😄 Caption idea: Today, I had a realization. I've been taking this for granted, but I'm incredibly lucky to see ____________ (the mountains/my morning coffee/the sunrise, etc.) every day. It brings me pure joy. I'm grateful for ___________ because _____________. What's something you see daily that sparks joy in your life? Share it below! 🌟👇

Feeling Overwhelmed on Sunday? Release Unexpected Inspiration with a Simple Gratitude Hack! Life throws curveballs, emails ping, deadlines loom, and yes, even bills pile up, creating a constant undercurrent of anxiety. Even on Sundays, when you might be aiming to recharge, the busyness can creep in. But what if, in the chaos, there is a key to releasing focus, creativity, and stronger connections? The secret weapon? Gratitude. ✨ Taking a moment to appreciate the good things in your life, big or small, can have a powerful impact. It shifts your perspective, opens doors to new possibilities, and fuels your drive to tackle challenges, even financial ones. Here's how gratitude can be your superpower: 📍Sharpen Your Focus: When you appreciate what you have, you become more present and aware of opportunities around you. 📍Spark Creativity: Gratitude unlocks optimism and innovation, allowing you to see the world with fresh eyes and potentially identify solutions to financial hurdles. 📍Build Stronger Relationships: Expressing thanks to those who support you fosters deeper connections and creates a positive work environment, which can lead to helpful advice or support. Ready to loosen the power of gratitude? 1. Take a moment right now to reflect on something you're grateful for. It could be anything: your health, supportive colleagues, a recent accomplishment, or even a peaceful Sunday morning! 2. Share what you're grateful for in the comments! Let's create a ripple effect of positivity and inspire each other. Please go to Church and thank God for all His mercies. Wishing everyone a restful and inspiring Sunday! #gratitude #inspiration #mindset #positivevibes

🌧️ **Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster** The past two days have been a struggle, friends. That heavy cloud of low spirits decided to pay an unexpected visit. But you know what? Even in the midst of this emotional storm, I've managed to keep pushing forward. 💪 Yesterday, I had a meeting with a potential client. Despite my inner turmoil, I put on my game face and gave it my all. And guess what? It went well! 🎉 This experience made me pause and reflect. I compared myself to where I was just four months ago, and I'm amazed at how far I've come. It's easy to forget our progress when we're in the thick of things, isn't it? Somehow, I've survived this hectic week. I made a commitment to myself to be consistent, even on my bad days. And you know what? I'm proud to say I'm doing so much better than last year. 📈 Today, I treated myself to some delicious biryani as a small celebration. Because sometimes, it's the little things that keep us going, right? As we head into the weekend, I'm looking forward to recharging my batteries. But I wanted to share this with you all because I know I'm not alone in these struggles. We're all human, facing our own battles while trying to show up professionally every day. Remember, it's okay to have low days. What matters is how we pick ourselves up and keep moving forward. Here's to personal growth, resilience, and the strength we find within ourselves! 🌟 How do you stay consistent during your challenging days? Share your strategies below! Happy Friday! #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalResilience #MentalHealthAwareness #FridayReflections

Motivational Monday With Dr. Mary It is that time of the year. During this Thanksgiving week, many people talk about giving thanks. Practicing gratitude does not have to be confined to the holiday season. In fact, it is beneficial for us to make practicing gratitude as part of our everyday lives. Gratitude reminds us not to take things for granted. We are not entitled with things. We are blessed with what we have. Gratitude reminds us to focus on what we have rather than what we are lacking. Gratitude lets us experience more pleasant emotions. Gratitude allows us to manage our emotions better. Gratitude decreases our stress. Gratitude during difficult times keeps us less depressed. The more we are grateful for, the more we get to find things or people to be grateful for. Gratitude is contagious. When you are grateful, you tend to express kindness to others. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if everyone is grateful? If employers express their gratitude toward employees, the retention rate of the employees increases, and productivity also increases. If you express gratitude toward your friends or your family members, both parties get to experience the appreciation and special bond you are creating. I invite you to practice gratitude by thinking of one thing you are grateful for every day. For more about practicing gratitude, please read my blog post. Link in comments. ------ I’m Dr. Mary and I’m grateful for you. I am grateful for your friendship, your support and your willingness to explore. If you are stressed and overwhelmed, I’m here to help. DM me to find out how I can serve you. #gratitude #practicegratitude #abundance #joy #content #love #bethankful #focusonhave #lifecoaching #physicancoaching #enjoylife #enjoymedicine #stressrelief #gratitudeiscontagious

As the weeks go by and the rejections and prospects come in during this time of uncertainty. One thing has remained consistent. My gratitude. I am not just talking about the good things; money to pay bills, inclusive work environments, working alongside the cremé de la cremé of mentors and hilariously creative colleagues.Superb work-life balance, that new work laptop feeling, lunch being catered....okay Cece you are getting ahead of yourself, bring it back.⏮️ ▶️ I am talking about having gratitude for even the rejections, the tough conversations. That difficult and awkward feeling of navigating through your values/morals/upbringing in a corporate/working world. Changing your ways of working to adapt to ambiguity/pressure. I know some may think, God Cece, are you incredibly naive or too kind-hearted, or are you crazy because having gratitude is for dreamers because it won't pay the bills. My answer is yes, thank you, to all the above. 😎 🗨 Gratitude may not "pay the bills," but it will teach you to be intentional with your food, your shelter, and your energy. Gratitude will not completely heal or reverse the rejections you receive or stop them from coming. However, it will help you become braver in your efforts in navigating ambiguity. Gratitude will not keep people from wanting to strike you down or push their privilege/hierarchy, or lack of empathy until you hit your breaking point. It will teach you to stand the test of time and humanity. As our ancestors did. To be intentional with your relationships and connections while embracing humility. That is what gratitude does to us. It reminds us to step back from the hustle and rat race, reclaim what is in front of us, and put to rest what no longer serves us. Living with intention. 💬I may come off as naive, a dreamer, wishful, a child (I still am according to anyone older than me or taller), all of the above. My abuela would tell me as a child that it is important to remain grateful in hard and unspeakable times because that is when we see the world for what it is, not as it should be. (Don't get me wrong, this is still hard to do. No amount of girl scout cookies and theater popcorn can fix it, but it helps.) I am beyond grateful for this time, even with its uncertainty. While finding bravery within me, while navigating such a competitive market. I am also grateful for furthering my discovery and enlightenment for art and pasta during this time. What are you grateful for? Thank you for reading. #opentowork

Most people have a daily gratitude practice. This has been a game changer for me. My friend and I exchange our Fab5 Gratitude daily and I found that I actively look for things to be grateful for, despite the day, week & month that I might be having. It’s a mood changer because you learn to find joy in the most basic, mundane, little things as well as the big events that make your heart smile with joy. But what happens when Mercury Retrograde hits? Or you have a million work projects due and it’s the start of the school year for your kids? Or your power goes out when it’s 30 degrees in your first year from moving from Southern CA to the PNW? (Ok, I might be getting a little personal here…) Finding gratitude when you’re crazy busy, putting out “fires” or dealing with a traumatic time in your life seems counterintuitive. Most of your energy is going towards how you’re going to “resolve” the situation that you’re in. But hear me out… When we’re just focusing at the situation in hand, strong emotions may be present. We’re angry, frustrated, shocked and/or sad. Flipping the script or seeing what we’re facing from a new perspective will take you out of that emotional tailspin and help you center. You’ll see the situation from a broader view. And the fastest way to get there is to look for the “gift” in the crisis. For us, we learned that an alternate generator was very high on our priority list. We also learned that having lights that automatically go on when the power goes out are essential and gets us out of the dark, preventing us from tripping over our puppies who feel like the need to have fur-to-skin contact at every moment. We also learned not to blame and yell at each other for not being prepared. (Me, more than him). I’ve also learn to repeat and live my favorite mantra (“Let Life Happen”) As you can see, there were a lot of “nuggets” from this disturbing event. (I realize for most PNW residents, this is nothing and I strive to become one of them soon.) And although Chris and I laugh at ourselves for our reaction back then, we both appreciated the experience because it helped us become our "best" selves. That is #thisweekschallenge. Think of a challenge or an adverse situation you’re dealing with right now. What is the “gift”? How will this make you stretch your skills? Open your world? Evolve? Share in the comments... #stressmanagement #timetothrive #readysetgo

Today is Thanksgiving but in my life it’s basically Thanksgiving ever single day. Gratitude changed my life. And you’re either fundamentally oriented in that direction or you’re not (in which case you’re probably clueless). I frequently comment about business, customer service, high end brands that hemorrhage money by sucking at the basics (answer the phone and answer questions nicely), importance of front line staff, entitlement, whiny employees … This isn’t me playing the victim or bitching about my life. I’m a writer and a business person. This is what I do. Business. Logic. Processes. Problem solve. Operational efficiency and excellence. As for my part, I’m a lucky man. That’s right. Throwback on that 1997 Verve ish. Happiness more or less … it’s in my mind. Gratitude is something you practice. It’s something you do every day. It doesn’t take a holiday. It shouldn’t be an occasional reflection. It shouldn’t come and go with the season. Gratitude is a way of existing. My son wakes up in the morning and literally exclaims with joy, “Dad! It’s the morning!” He celebrates the new day. Like a boss. I see poor Mexican families in a neighborhood I frequently pass through. Rundown houses. But kids playing and laughing. And dad or uncle or whoever it was playing with them, laughing, happy. Happy with what little they have, scarce as that may be. And here were are. A large swath of America that isn’t in any dire need. And they’re just miserable. Their fundamental orientation is toward self pity and being miserable. And it should be the opposite. My mother was my teacher as a small child. My son is my teacher as a grown man. I give thanks every day. For my family. For my many blessings. For my neighbors. For the earth. For the food we eat. For the new day. For the weather whatever that weather may be as long as it’s not life threatening. I was running through the woods in a cold rain the other day and giving thanks for the cold rain. God or no God. Creator. Universe. The infinite. Whether it caries on or we turn to dust. None of that changes the value of gratitude and it’s importance as a daily practice. Am I on some other level shit? Of course. But it’s good.

It's a beautiful, sunny day. I'm grateful for that. I'm alive and healthy and relatively safe. I'm grateful for that. I'm working on things that excite me, that fill me with a sense of purpose and that I believe can help other people who may be struggling. I'm grateful for that. I'm surrounded by love in human and animal form. I'm grateful for that. I have a sweet home, I have access to technology, the Internet and modern conveniences that people all over the world do not. I'm grateful for that. What does this have to do with anything? I could easily be focused on what isn't going great in my life. I could readily be overtaken by resentment, anxiety/worry, annoyance, guilt, shame, frustration and overwhelm. I could, without even thinking about it, find 99 problems to complain about in my life. I could do that. Or, I could choose to be grateful and happy right where I am, with what I have, and don’t have, and want to have. To me, the choice is simple, though it isn’t always easy. I get caught up sometimes in fear, scarcity, lack, limitation. And every time I do I waste precious time and energy doomscrolling scenarios in my brain, and I don’t spend any energy or attention on solutions, or creation. How many times do we all do that? How much time do we spend on things that don’t help us or anyone else? For me, the way out of that “doomspace” started with gratitude. Really thinking about things I am grateful for, writing them down, visualizing that for which I’m grateful, feeling the gratitude course through my mind and body, and carrying that feeling with me. It’s not a laundry list I check off… “Let’s see, I’m grateful for coffee, for my bed, for my car, for my food, etc.” I don’t just list things and keep going through the day like nothing happened. That’s not gratitude and that won’t get desired results. Gratitude is very much about being in the present. Even if you’re remembering something you’re grateful for, or you’re anticipating gratitude over some future event or circumstance, you’re still right here, experiencing that gratitude right NOW. That’s the secret. Experiencing gratitude right here, right now, no matter what’s going on around you. Living in gratitude, more often than not. Acting in gratitude, becoming gratitude personified. And every one of us has enough in our lives right now that we can focus on with sincere and genuine gratitude. It’s all where your focus lies. It’s all what you’re choosing to let occupy your thoughts, interpretations, emotions and actions. Friends don’t let friends doomscroll. I’m putting a call to action out there and inviting you to take two minutes right now, choose one thing you’re truly grateful for, and allow the feelings of gratitude and appreciation to fill your mind and heart. Be overcome with gratitude, and carry that feeling with you in your day. How do things change, how do things feel, when you focus on gratitude?

#1 hack to de-stress yourself. Embrace the power of gratitude. There's one magic word: Thank you! Trust me, it goes a long way in business. When teams feel appreciated, it lifts them up. Saying thank you makes to do more better. And not just for big wins. ➡ Thank them for sharing an idea. ➡ Be more specific when being grateful. What you give is what you receive. Showing you care means loyalty and great work. Take a moment today to be grateful. Q: Who would you thank first? ✅PS: Research indicates that expressing appreciation can lower stress hormone levels :)

You know what feels wonderful? Being valued and appreciated. Clients thank and appreciate me every day. I love that not just because it feels good to me--and of course it does--but also because it means they are building their own gratitude practice of appreciating others. Sincerely appreciating others is the first step in being appreciated. So I want you to know this: I appreciate you. I appreciate those who read my words. I appreciate anyone who likes, or comments, or shares. I deeply appreciate the clients who choose me to help them grow. Confession time: I had a really tough weekend, where I had to make a difficult decision, and I have more difficult decisions in front of me. I'm taking a lot of risk, and I have a lot of processing of powerful emotions to do. Here's a picture of me today, dealing with hard things, knowing that it's OK for it to be hard. I appreciate myself for the work I have put in to be strong and take a stand even at great personal risk. I appreciate myself for making it OK to cry... more than OK. It's wonderful to cry. I cry because I care and because I am scared and because I am connected to a deep sense of purpose. This is why I'm here on this earth: to help connect us with our humanity. I'm here to help myself first, and others after, to realize where we are stuck together not understanding how we work. Specifically, understanding how our emotions are not something wrong with us, but a powerful and wonderful part of our brain that connects us to two fundamental parts of ourselves: one part that wants to keep us alive in a world it perceives as filled with mortal threats, and the other the part that gives us meaning and connection. This is why I am here. The path to that purpose has been bumpy, and it just got bumpier. So I appreciate you for being here with me on this bumpy-as-hell ride. I'll find a way to live in alignment with my purpose, no matter what. I don't know what that will look like, and that's OK.