949: Gratitude At Work: Use Grateful Leadership to Defeat Problems and Negativity with Steve Foran

With all life's problems, challenges, and negativity, we may find living exhausting and irritating. Having this negative attitude can reflect in our actions, which can only cause more negativity. So how can you change into positivity? Simply be grateful. Be grateful for your life, the food you’ve eaten, the clothes you wear, your family, work, or anything else. Doing so will definitely bring positive changes in your life.

Steve Foran is the founder of Gratitude at Work, a company focused on helping organizations build happy, productive, and engaged cultures. He is also the author of the book "Surviving to Thriving: The 10 Laws of Grateful Leadership." Today, Steve talks about the importance of gratitude and how it can be a powerful tool for personal and professional growth. He shares his thoughts on negative attribution bias and the steps to develop a gratitude practice, including recording daily gratitude and consuming other people's gratitude.

Quotes

"Gratitude doesn't make the crap go away or make life's challenges disappear. What it does is put us in a mindset that allows us to better deal with them." - Steve Foran

“We deserve more. I believe gratitude is a tool that each of us can use to live the life we deserve.” - Steve Foran

“Gratitude, quite simply, is a practice that enables your brain, your mind, to see the good all around you that's always there.” - Steve Foran

Takeaways

01:14 Gratitude is a practice that enables the mind to see the good around us, which can help us better deal with life's challenges.

03:39 Awareness of our natural tendency towards negative attribution bias is the first step to developing a gratitude practice.

06:08 Consistently recording and consuming other people's gratitude can help rewire the brain and make it less likely to be controlled by negativity.

20:23 Gratitude can be a powerful tool for creating a positive, productive, and fulfilling work environment.

21:26 Sharing your big dreams with others can be a valuable step in achieving them.

Resources

• Gratitude at Work: Put Gratitude to Work For You. thankful leaders - grateful teams.
• Steve Foran on LinkedIn
• Surviving To Thriving: The 10 Laws of Grateful Leadership by Steve Foran on Amazon

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