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This Growth Coach<\/a> Blog is focused on the importance of giving thanks.\u00a0 Pretty fitting given that today is Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays because it’s simple, pure, honest, and all about loved ones and giving thanks<\/strong>.\u00a0 As your virtual business coach<\/a>, I wish you and your family a very relaxing and blessed Thanksgiving … and may you truly recognize and count your many blessings today and on a regular basis.\u00a0 This Growth Coach Blog will help you to slow down, reflect, and appreciate all the wonderful people and simple pleasures you have in your life, even if economic times are causing you angst.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So first, let’s face reality.\u00a0 Has the challenging economy and slow recovery in the U.S. made you feel a little less thankful, grateful, and appreciative and a bit more anxious and irritated?\u00a0\u00a0 Are you focusing more on your burdens than your blessings, your problems than your opportunities?\u00a0 Probably so.<\/strong> But if not, congratulations … <\/em>you have a healthy and wonderful perspective on life and business, understand what truly matters most, and are a rare and wise individual who can be thankful in the best of times and worst of times.\u00a0 Keep doing what you are doing and share your strategies and attitude of gratitude with others.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the vast majority of us, if honest, we probably feel a little less thankful and blessed during these challenging economic and uncertain times.\u00a0 But why?\u00a0 Does this really make sense to have our gratitude and blessings tied strictly to economic conditions?<\/strong> Business may still be rough, but the special people and simple things closest to our hearts still exist and are close at hand.\u00a0 Isn’t that so?\u00a0 What matters most is still available for us to recognize, love, enjoy and appreciate.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let turbulent times blind you to this fact.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You most likely still have your faith, family, friends, health, and basic necessities.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that so?<\/strong> While they may be clouded over right now by some anxiety and stressful times, they are still very much in your life and present.\u00a0 We all just need to burn off the fog of adversity and negativity to gain a better perspective and clearly see our true and meaningful wealth, not just our monetary wealth.\u00a0 As your business coach, I want you to slow down, catch your breath, reflect, and count your bountiful blessings this Thanksgiving.\u00a0 This will help recharge your spirit, confidence, energy level, positive attitude, and sense of clarity \u2026 all essential for greater success.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, my fellow business owner, entrepreneur or professional<\/a>, who and what specifically are you thankful for?\u00a0 Go ahead, think about your blessings. <\/strong>I know it\u2019s tough but just do it.\u00a0 Most goal-oriented, hard-charging and successful professionals have a hard time slowing down to reflect and count their blessings.\u00a0 They tend to be focused on the next goal, next sale, next project, next result.\u00a0 They seldom stop to smell the roses, enjoy their victories, look back at their progress, or count their good fortune.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 That\u2019s not healthy.<\/p>\n

There is a great quote from Zig Ziglar that says, “The more you are thankful for what you have, the more you will have to be thankful for.” <\/strong>I believe this.\u00a0 What you appreciate and are grateful for, you attract into your life in a more abundant way \u2026 you get what you think about and thank about.\u00a0 Therefore, please do not take the people and blessings around you for granted.\u00a0 Have a genuine attitude of gratitude and good fortune will continue to flow abundantly your way. <\/strong> Again, who and what are you thankful for?\u00a0 When is the last time you looked back to see how far you have come?\u00a0 To think about all the people (internally and externally) who helped you along the way?\u00a0 Again, who and what are you thankful for and should deserve your gratitude?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s get specific.\u00a0 We business owners have lots to be thankful for … <\/strong>a few quick ones come to mind … our faith, families, friends, customers, employees, health, home, our livelihood, a life of purpose, controlling our path,\u00a0 a warm shower, comfortable bed, enough food, career fulfillment, our country, our freedoms, our rights to own a business, creative expression, building something beyond self, fun activities, sports and hobbies, to belong to a group, etc.\u00a0 Again, who and what are you thankful for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For me, on the business front, I am thankful for all my passionate franchise owners <\/strong>(business coaches<\/a>) who serve and help several thousand small business clients<\/a> each and every year.\u00a0 I am also grateful for all my dedicated Growth Coach employees, vendors, and advisers<\/strong> who help support our critical mission of improving North American one community at a time by helping the entrepreneurs in those communities achieve greater success in their businesses and balance in their lives.\u00a0 What we do makes a real difference, touches lives, and is very fulfilling.\u00a0 If interested in becoming a business coach, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

As business owners and professionals, we need to learn to count our blessings and not just our burdens<\/strong>.\u00a0 To see opportunities, not just problems.\u00a0 To thank all the people around us.\u00a0 Even in challenging times, we need to enjoy the journey, not just the destination.\u00a0 Again, who and what are you thankful for, especially on Thanksgiving?\u00a0 Be sure to tell them in your words and actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Growth Coach Blog is focused on the importance of giving thanks.\u00a0 Pretty fitting given that today is Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays because it’s simple, pure, honest, and all about loved ones and giving thanks.\u00a0 As your virtual business coach, I wish you and your family a very relaxing and blessed Thanksgiving … […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[855,857,876,1111,1105,858,860,861,1228,1059,863,1224,897,864,935,1207,950,865,937,867],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-coaching","tag-benefits-of-business-coaching","tag-business-coach","tag-business-coaching","tag-business-coaching-client-success","tag-business-coaching-guarantee","tag-business-owner","tag-business-owner-mindset","tag-business-systems","tag-count-blessings","tag-delegation","tag-entrepreneur","tag-give-thanks","tag-growth-coach","tag-leadership","tag-marketing","tag-small-business-ceo","tag-small-business-leader","tag-small-business-management","tag-strategic-business-owner","tag-strategic-mindset"],"yoast_head":"\nBusiness Owners, Business Coaching & Counting Your Blessings - 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