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The Daily Gratitude Minute433: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. You know, I talk a lot about unplugging and gratitude in terms of two things that can really help your mental wellbeing, and today I wanna talk about how they're related because I think they're related in several.
First unplugging can provide an opportunity to take a break from the constant distractions and stimulation of technology, and instead help you focus on being present and mindful. This can lead to increased feelings of gratitude as you are able to appreciate the simple pleasures and...2023-02-0701 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute432: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Today I've got a tip for you to living a better life practice mindfulness and gratitude. I know I've talked about this a lot, but I want to kind of reiterate this, taking the time each day to focus on the present moment and appreciate what you have in your.
Can help increase feelings of happiness and satisfaction. This can involve simple activities such as taking deep breaths, journaling, or reflecting on what you're grateful for. When you focus on the positive aspects...2023-02-0600 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute431: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I've got a quote for you today from Willie Nelson of all people. He said, once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. I love that. For me, this quote means that the way we think about things affects the outcomes we experience in our.
If we have negative thoughts, we are likely to have negative experiences and results. On the other hand, if we focus on positive thoughts and cultivate a positive mindset, we'll start to see...2023-02-0301 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute429 The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby. From Say It With Gratitude. I'm always a big believer in celebrating wins, but like I sometimes do, I don't take my own advice on occasion. And celebrating wins is one thing that I c probably improve upon, and so I'm gonna take a moment to celebrate a win.
Back at the beginning of November, I. To get back into being more consistent with the daily gratitude minute, and it's got daily and it's titled, but it's been anything but. But back in November, I set a goal...2023-01-0502 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute428: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. We are off to 2023. Hopefully your year is off to a great start. I know we're only a couple days in, but wanted to again, wish you a happy New Year. Last, uh, week I told you about a family that I was supposed to take out on a gratitude hike.
It got canceled because the roads were closed, so we went into a coffee shop. We just had a family gratitude session for a couple hours. It was wonderful. We played the...2023-01-0202 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute422: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Yesterday I just got back, uh, to Tennessee from Virginia where I spent a few days visiting my family for Christmas. Had a great time. Like I mentioned, I love the week between Christmas and New Year's to, to plan, reflect, really get my head focused around what I want to accomplish.
Personally and professionally now every year, one of the goals I seem to set is a reading goal. don't normally hit it. So I'm trying to be a little bit more...2022-12-2703 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute421: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby. From Say It With Gratitude, it is Monday. There is one week left in the year. I love this time of year, you know, between Christmas and the new year. There's that week where we can take time to reflect, maybe celebrate what we've accomplished in.
Previous year that we're just wrapping up and we can look forward to see where we wanna take our lives, maybe our businesses, maybe our relationships. Where, where do we want to be, you know, one year from now? And what do...2022-12-2602 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute420: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby. From Say It With Gratitude. It is Christmas Day, so I wanted to wish you all a very merry Christmas. Now I know not all of you celebrate Christmas, so if you don't, happy Sunday to you. Just got a really simple message for you today, no matter where you are in the world or who you are with today.
And that's to be kind and you know it's real easy to do, right? They say kindness is free, so you can spread it as much as you...2022-12-2501 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute419: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Today is Christmas Eve. I love this holiday season. I'm at my parents' house in Virginia celebrating with family, and I want to give you a tool that may help, uh, you have a better Christmas, even Christmas Day.
It's The Grateful Deck. The Grateful Deck, which is 120. Question. To remind you the good in your life and the spark meaningful conversations. Now, of course, you can't purchase it and get it in time for Christmas, but what you can do is download...2022-12-2401 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute418: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby. From Say It With Gratitude, it is just a few days before Christmas. I know a lot of times this time of year we're getting together with family and sometimes we don't get along with family members. Maybe we haven't spoken to them, uh, in a little while, and it may be difficult to kind of face them in person.
And sometimes you have to be the one. Kind of starts the conversation. So what I would just kind of encourage you to think about is that you...2022-12-2302 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute417: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. My tip for you today and my encouragement is to show appreciation to local businesses. You know, running a small business is not easy, especially in this day and age. There's lots of businesses popping up both online and brick and mortar, but I want you to consider showing some appreciation for a local business that you do.
Business with, you know, so one that comes to my mind is my veterinarian. I take my cat Mia in to see her, uh, any...2022-12-2202 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute416: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I wanted to share with you one of my other interests besides gratitude, and that's hiking. You may not know it, but I'm a hiking guide. I'm also a fitness professional, fitness coach. I help people get in shape.
Now, if you think about it, hiking has very similar benefits to gratitude. They both can help your mental wellbeing, and so I love helping people get out in nature and going for a hike. I think it can do a lot for you...2022-12-2103 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute415: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby. From Say It With Gratitude. You know, as we wind down the year, it is, uh, almost the end of 2022, as I record this and a lot of people are spending the holidays with friends and family members, I thought about like, how can we approach the end of the year with positivity in our heads instead of.
Remembering maybe the bad that came your way this year. So I took five questions from the Grateful Deck and. I want to tell you what these questions are in...2022-12-2002 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute414: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. We are less than a week from Christmas. It's a time of year that is very joyful for many people. But I also wanna remind you that it is a challenging time of year for a lot of us, and so it's. Reminder that we all experience this time of year differently.
For some people, it's a time of joy getting together with friends and family. For other people, it's a stressful time. Uh, it's a time that we may be grieving, maybe suffering...2022-12-1901 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute412: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude today. December 17th is a special day. It's my best friend, Lori's birthday. Happy birthday Lori. Hope you have a wonderful day. Just want to say a few, kind words about Lori. You know, we've been friends for, a better part of 10 years, a little bit over 10 years now.
And she's. Probably the most loyal friend I've ever had. She's an amazing woman. She just cares about all of humanity. She's somebody who's dependable, somebody who is courageous, somebody that you can count on...2022-12-1701 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute411: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Yesterday I delivered a virtual gratitude workshop to a company and we were talking about connection in the workplace. One statistic says that 61% of employees are lonely and underperforming. And I think it's important to note that loneliness is not the absence of people.
It's the absence of connection. So if you think about it, you know, you could be married, you could have children, and you could be lonely if there's not meaningful connection between you and your family members. You could work...2022-12-1602 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute410: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. . Yesterday I was in a virtual meeting and we were playing a few rounds of the Grateful Deck, which is my card deck with 120 questions to start meaningful conversations. We each took a turn to answer a question, and the question I got was, Tell me about one of your happiest moments.
So, I love this question because it reminds us of the good in our lives, and, and we can recall a memory that we had that perhaps put a smile on...2022-12-1504 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute409: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I had a conversation with my friend Terry yesterday. Now Terry just moved from Colorado to England. He runs running camps, uh, at least he did in Colorado. And we had partnered, uh, doing some adventure trips where we would lead groups of people doing.
Various adventure activities, including hiking. He was asking me how my hiking business and speaking business was going, and I said one of my goals is to lead companies, you know, teams in organizations to come together and get...2022-12-1402 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute408: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Okay. Today's gratitude tip. This is for businesses, especially if you have an actual store location or it can set up outta market, and that's to offer free goodies. Um, so what I mean by this, I'll just give you a couple examples.
Trader Joe's, uh, which is a grocery store chain, they always have complimentary coffee in the front of the store. This freebie lets the store showcase different types of coffee that they carry, and meanwhile, shoppers get a chance to try...2022-12-1302 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute407: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude The other day I mentioned that a friend and colleague of mine interviewed me to express appreciation. About another friend and colleague of ours in the fitness industry, just how awesome a person she is. So I said some really nice words about her and my friend who did the interview.
He's interviewing a bunch of people, he's editing it and putting together a nice video montage to gift our mutual friend. I want to point out, there's actually a service that can...2022-12-1202 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute406: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone the other day and he needed some advice on sending handwritten notes and buying gifts for. Some of his clients and customers now, he had read my book, the Grateful Entrepreneur, which has some tips talking about this, but he couldn't remember what I had said, so I gave him a few pieces of advice that I wanted to share with you.
Number one, when it comes to writing handwritten notes, he...2022-12-1104 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute405: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. A couple days ago I was asked to participate in a pretty unique project. A friend and colleague of mine, Eric, uh, he asked to interview me just for a few minutes about another friend of mine and a colleague.
In the fitness industry, Alicia, and the interview was all about appreciating Alicia, you know, what I, I appreciate about her, how she's helped me over the years, whether in my business or or personal life, and just really reflecting, um, about what...2022-12-1001 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute404: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I often have people that I'm speaking to, like in at a conference or for an organization, I'll often have the audience members write a thank you card, which is definitely good practice. Right? It's kind of a lost.
But the cool thing about writing thank you notes is not only does the recipient benefit, because obviously they're receiving words of praise and and appreciation, but the person that writes the card feels more grateful to, they benefit as well. In fact, science backs...2022-12-0902 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute403: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. You know, when I give my keynote to companies and at conferences on creating a happy workplace by increasing human connection and leading with gratitude, I recount my time in Guatemala, specifically when I first arrived in Guatemala and when I had to say my.
And the bottom line is when I arrived in Guatemala, they made me feel completely welcome. They, uh, loved us with open arms. By us, I mean, the volunteers and I, they made us feel welcome and like we...2022-12-0802 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute402: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby with Say It With Gratitude. On yesterday's episode, I talked about an online event that I went to Sunday evening called Thank You Live and all about appreciating people in our lives in 2022 and, uh, appreciating the things that we accomplished in 2022 looking.
Before we look forward to 2023. Another cool thing that we did, two things. One, we wrote a card or a note to somebody in our lives that made a difference in 2022. And one thing that Blake, the leader of the program, Suggested that we do is...2022-12-0702 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute401: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Last night I participated in an online event called Thank You Live, hosted by Blake Fly. His mission is to do this event every year for 55 years. So this was number seven, I believe he does it every December. and there's several things I like about it, but I'm gonna focus on one thing.
It's one of the first things we did. Uh, we, he had us reflect on our year, you know, when December comes and it's almost time to turn the calendar...2022-12-0602 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute400: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Recently, I've been working on my mindset and more specifically the language that I use just so I can be more positive day to day. You know, I think our minds tend to be more negative as humans. That's only natural, so it can take some work to think positive thoughts and.
That's one way gratitude comes into play that can help you be more positive naturally, but also just watching your language. So I've been looking at my language specifically around money and...2022-12-0502 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute399: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. You know, as I recently have been updating my keynote presentation about leading with gratitude to, in order to create a happier workplace, I came across a word that I never heard before. I'm sure it's a made up word, but I liked it and it's, the word is phubber.
And so I ask people on my keynote, are you a, are you a Phubber? And it's the combination of the word phone and snubber. It's somebody who ignores a person they're with and...2022-12-0402 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute398: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I'm still in Spokane, Washington as I record this, but headed back, uh, to Tennessee. Uh, this afternoon I, I'll get in about midnight, but I was at a coffee shop here in Spokane that I've been to several times, and a gentleman walked in, um, and he was using a cane, uh, having trouble walking a little.
But he said hello to the baristas and they wished him a happy birthday. So he was obviously a regular there. They knew today was his...2022-12-0301 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute397: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I recently finished a book called the Mr Thank You Project by John Israel. I've mentioned this book a couple times before and it details John's journey of writing five thank you cards a day for an entire year, and I'm blown away that he was so consistent and completed his mission.
And as you could imagine, it sometimes became difficult to think about who he should write the cards to. You know, that's a lot of cards, over a thousand cards to write...2022-12-0203 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute396: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude as I record this audio, I am in Spokane, Washington here to deliver a keynote talk on gratitude in the workplace at a conference. And I flew in, uh, to Spokane today, and there was a snowy day. And there were some delays not getting into the airport, but actually once we landed, we had to sit on the plane for an hour and 15 minutes because they weren't able to plow yet.
And there was another plane at our gate and they couldn't get...2022-12-0101 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute395: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. You know, one of the things I talk about in my keynote is how human connection has gone down quite a bit over the last 10, 20 years. And an example I'll give is the way we used to get music back in like the eighties and the nineties versus the way we get our music now.
So let me give an example. When I was growing up again in the eighties and nineties, there was a record store called Tower Records. It was all...2022-11-3002 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute394: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. When I work with organizations on gratitude in the workplace and developing more meaningful connections, one activity I have. The groups do is to break up in pairs. So you're with a partner and you're thinking about the one word that describes how you're feeling about life right now, and you're sharing that word with your partner.
Then to take it a little bit further, you're thinking about why you chose that. and share that with your partner. So imagine you're in a group...2022-11-2903 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute393: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. Today I was practicing my keynote talk, which is, uh, creating a happy workplace by developing meaningful connections and leading with gratitude. Um, and I was just kind of reminded about how important it is to.
have a happy workplace. And one of the big benefits besides creating a team or having a team that wants to stick around longer, so you know, they're not, uh, looking at switching jobs, which forces a company to. Hire new peoples. Turnover is a huge cost to...2022-11-2801 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute392: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I often talk about starting your day with a morning routine, which may include expressing gratitude, but what about gratitude? In the evening, I think it might be a good idea. You know, a lot of us go to bed and we have anxious thoughts.
We're worried about the future. We're thinking about things that happened to us in the past and that, uh, can affect our sleep. Many of us don't have an evening routine, or at nighttime we're doing things like scrolling...2022-11-2701 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute391: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I just got back today from my Thanksgiving holiday where I spent it in Virginia with my family and I wanted to give special gratitude today to my pet sitter. My cat sitter Bailey. She watched Mia while I was.
and I'm just so appreciative of her. You know, Mia is 19 and a half years old. She has health challenges, she's got arthritis, she has kidney disease, so it's really hard for me to leave her. Um, but I feel confident with Bailey. Bailey...2022-11-2601 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute390: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. You know, I started the daily gratitude minute, three years ago. It was Thanksgiving day, November 28th, 2019. And the idea was to record a daily audio. That was about a minute long. Sometimes it goes two or three minutes.
Now I have not been successful at doing this daily, but here we are three years later, this is episode three 90. So it's been inconsistent, but it's pretty darn good, right? To still be doing this three years later. So today I want to share...2022-11-2503 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute389: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. Today is Thanksgiving day in the United States. I don't want to wish everybody who is celebrating a very happy Thanksgiving. I am fortunate and grateful to be spending Thanksgiving with some family members. My parents.
I'm at my parents' home in Smith mountain lake in Virginia. And you know, for about 20 years, I didn't spend Thanksgiving with my family. I lived for 11 years in Dallas for nine years in Denver. And I always chose to spend Christmas time with my family and. It's...2022-11-2403 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute388: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. I often talk about gratitude in the workplace. And when I do, I like to emphasize that gratitude in the workplace starts with you. I think it's important to have a personal gratitude practice first. Before you can spread it to others. And the reason I say that, so think about the benefits of gratitude, right. And having a gratitude practice.
The research shows. There's a multitude of benefits. A couple of them being be more positive. You have less anxiety, less stress, more...2022-11-2302 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute387: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude. Last week. I'm one of the episodes. I talked about a book that I was reading. I just started it. It's called the Mr. Thank you project. And it's about John Israel who had a goal to write five. Thank you cards a day for one year, 365 straight days, which is incredible. What a mission.
And one of the first groups of people that he wrote to, he was on an airplane and decided to write to the pilots. And he got to thinking...2022-11-2202 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute386: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. You know, one of my favorite things to say is find what makes you happy and do more of it. We often get caught up in our to-do list. Right. I know. I certainly do. I usually focus on work more than having fun.
Or we sometimes spend our days reacting and responding to things such as emails, social media posts, and text messages. I do that as well. This goes on day after day, week after weekend month after month. But when was...2022-11-2101 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute385: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude. I've got a gratitude tip from my book, the grateful entrepreneur, how you can show your customers. Uh, just that you care about them as human beings and not just as a transaction. And that's to offer sympathy.
You know, how many businesses send out sympathy cards when a family member of a customer or employee passes away? Practically none. Your business should do so. Send a heartfelt handwritten sympathy card. When your customers lose loved ones. Sometimes it's not easy to know what...2022-11-2001 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute384: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. So this afternoon, I ran a virtual workshop for some employees, uh, from a small company based out of Northern Virginia. And I tried an activity that I only tried once before I learned this one from Chad little field who owns a business called we and me. He facilitates connection.
Activities and events as well. And he calls this activity breakout blackout. So the group I was with was virtual. So we were all on zoom. And so if you're not familiar, a...2022-11-1902 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute383: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. In my book, the grateful entrepreneur, I gave a tip for businesses. If they wanted to stand out from their competition and that's to send out cards on weird holidays. Now it's. Not that common for businesses to send out cards as it is, you know, many businesses don't send out. Thank you cards. But I think if there's one time, a business does a pretty good job.
Sending out cards it's during the Christmas holidays. Well, if you could imagine the average, person's...2022-11-1803 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute382: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. I want to give you a quick connection tip that you can. Use at work now I didn't make this up. There's a book I recently read called connectable all about creating connections and belonging. And the workplace and the authors have come out with a connection deck, which are 30 challenges that you can do to.
Build connection in the workplace. And so one of the challenges in the connection deck is asked for advice. So they say, if you want to earn someone's...2022-11-1701 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute381: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. My name is Scott Colby from Say with Gratitude. I just started reading a book called Mr. Thank You, by John Israel. I've known John for a few years. Mainly online, I guess only online. We've chatted, we've done a Zoom call together. Uh, but he wrote this book a few years ago and I'm surprised that I'm just now reading it.
But it tells of his journey and lessons learned from. Writing five handwritten notes. So he wrote five thank you cards every day for a year. Now, that's incredible to me...2022-11-1603 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute380: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby with Say It With Gratitude. I often talk about listening as a form of gratitude, but only if you're present. So what do I mean by that? Well, oftentimes when somebody is talking to us, we're doing other things. We're checking our phones, we're thinking about our emails, we're thinking about what we need to do during the.
notifications come up and we look at those instead of paying attention to the person who's talking to us. This sometimes happens in meetings, just one-on-one conversations, even at meals or...2022-11-1502 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute379: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby with Say It With Gratitude. Yesterday I mentioned a nonprofit here in Knoxville, Tennessee called Send Senior Citizens Love their mission. Is to keep the connections alive for senior citizens at risk, for isolation and loneliness by collecting handwritten notes and delivering them to seniors all across the country.
Seniors who are at risk of being lonely, they're in hospitals, they're in nursing homes, and I wanted to give a suggestion on how your organization could do. While helping your team bond and build deeper connections with one another...2022-11-1403 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute378: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby. With Sat With Gratitude. I want to briefly talk about, uh, a woman's nonprofit here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Now, I met her online through a kind of a local Facebook group here in Knoxville, and I was intrigued when I learned what she was doing.
She has a non-profit, well, first of all, her name is Ashley Lynch. Ashley has a nonprofit called Send Senior Citizens Love Send, Senior Citizens Love, uh, and her mission is to end isolation and loneliness among seniors. Of course, I love that mission...2022-11-1302 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute377: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - Happinesswelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. When I talk about gratitude in the workplace, one of the things I like to mention and encourage is for you to be specific with your gratitude, especially when you are expressing appreciation for somebody at work.
So what I mean by that is instead of just saying, Thank you or good job. Be specific about what you appreciate about that person, and I would encourage you not to even tie it to performance. So a great example of this recently actually happened to...2022-11-1200 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute376: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby. I want to talk a little bit about. Workplace wellness. Now, a Surgeon General's report that just came out declared that toxic workplaces can be harmful to a person's mental health due to factors like long hours, chronic stress, and being underpaid.
Now, that's pretty obvious. The report highlights that 76% of workers in the US have at least one symptom of a mental health condition. While up to 84% of people said their workplaces contributed to mental health issues, these numbers are incredibly high. The surgeon general outlined five essentials...2022-11-1102 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute375: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby. Thank you so much for joining me as I record this. It is November 9th, 2022, and I've set a goal to write one. Appreciation card, uh, in the month of November and in the month of December. So I'm gonna be writing a card every single day for two months.
And if you set a goal like this, you might wonder like, how do I know who to send a card to? I don't have that many people to appreciate, but in reality, you probably have more than enough...2022-11-1003 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute361: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby. Thank you so much for joining me. I was recently, uh, out on one of my gratitude hikes. I was leading a family. Uh, and for those of you who don't know, I. It's one of many things that I do. I take groups out on private hiking tours in the smoky mountains.
And we were playing the grateful dead. So the grateful deck is my card deck that I created back in 2020, and it's 120 cards consisting of questions to spark meaningful conversations. And. Uh, helped develop deeper connection...2022-10-1703 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute360: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude. My tip for you today is to think about the bad things in your life. Now, I know that may sound weird. We're talking about gratitude, right? Shouldn't we be focusing on the good. And yes, you do want to focus on the good in your
But that doesn't mean you need to ignore the bad. That would be disingenuous. Right? We've all had negative things happen to us. We've all had challenges. We've had to go through. But I want you to remember...2022-10-1601 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute359: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby, helping them have a good day. I want to ask you a question. Are you a fiber? Now you may not know what that word means and that's okay. So it's spelled P H U B B E R. Actually. Didn't know what it meant until a few weeks ago when I was updating.
My keynote and I was doing some research. So the word fiber is a combination of the words, phone and snubber, and it's somebody who ignores the person they're with and kids attention to their...2022-10-1502 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute358: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby. Thank you so much for being here. I want to tell you about a recording that I've been listening to every day for the last 13 days, I've listened to it 13 days in a row. And my plan is to listen to it every day in October. So that's 31 straight days. It's called the strangest secret by Earl Nightingale. You can find the recording, several different recordings.
Um, on YouTube. Now, the message is a little bit outdated. However, the core idea behind the message is true to this day...2022-10-1403 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute357: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessHello? Hello. Welcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby. Thank you so much for being here.
I want to give a suggestion to you. I talk a lot about unplugging and connecting with other people. And, uh, unfortunately we're in front of our screens most of the time, whether we're working on our computer or just, we've got our phone tied to us, right. Almost tethered. Uh, and we're often looking at her phone, even when we're in the company of other people.
Uh, one thing that I love about my workout group, I work out...2022-10-1302 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute356: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from St with the gratitude. And, you know, recently one of my friends and fitness clients purchased the grateful deck. So for those of you that aren't familiar, the grateful deck is a deck of cards that I produced in the summer of 2020.
Each card has a question on it. And the questions are designed to start meaningful conversations, to help us remember the good in our lives. So it's really designed to help you connect with somebody else. And so she wrote to me, after she bought the...2022-10-1202 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute355: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott. Thank you so much for joining me. You know, keeping a gratitude journal. First thing in the morning is a great way to start your day. But for many of us, we tend to just go through the motions. Our journal prompts us to answer the question. What are three things you're grateful for today?
My spouse, my job and my cat. There I'm done. Well, it's not enough just to write down what you're grateful For your life to change and for you to be happier because you're living...2022-10-1101 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute354: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessHey, Scott Colby here back with another episode of the daily gratitude minute. Had a quick question for you. It might sound funny, but hear me out. Do you ever talk to yourself? You know, I talk often about having meaningful conversations with other people, so you can connect on a deeper level. But what about talking to yourself?
I'm talking about reflecting in going deep within. So, if you're open to this, here are five questions that may prompt deeper self-reflection, which I think is very important to do, but often we don't take time to step back and...2022-10-1001 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute353: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessHey, Scott Colby here with another episode of the daily gratitude minute. When you're on an airplane, the flight attendant instructs you to put your oxygen mask on first, before helping others. This is an important rule for insurance survival, because if you've run out of oxygen, you can't help anyone else with their oxygen mask.
It's a great metaphor for those of us who run around taking care of everything and everyone else except ourselves. It's a great reminder for everyone that if you don't take care of yourself, you can experience burnout, stress, fatigue, reduced mental effectiveness. Health...2022-10-0901 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute352: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott and you know, we've been having some beautiful sunny fall weather here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Uh, saw a beautiful sunrise in the smoky mountains on Wednesday morning. And, you know, I've been trying to get out as much as possible. Take advantage of the nice weather.
And remind me of an article that I read recently. It was a research article and the subject to the heading of the article said, Stress. Take a 20 minute nature pill. You know, there are so many positive benefits of being in nature, backed...2022-10-0801 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute351: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott. And, uh, today I was interviewed. For a podcast called the stay hungry podcast. And I was talking about getting out of your comfort zone. And how, when you do something. Uh, physically challenging You're a little Afraid of doing. And you complete that mission that can expand your mind of the possibilities of what else you can do. So you start to think about what else has been holding you back in life, and this can create a breakthrough. So I told a story, uh, several years ago on...2022-10-0703 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute350: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessHey, it's Scott back with another episode of the daily gratitude minute. Thank you so much for joining me. Want to tell you a little story? Real brief. Uh, about my morning yesterday. So I set my alarm for 5:15 AM in the morning, got in my car at 5 45. And I drove to the smokey mountains in the dark. So I could see the sunrise at newfound gap, which is one of the prettiest spots to CA smokey mountain sunrise.
And as you can imagine, it was a really joyful morning watching the sunrise, even though I had to get up...2022-10-0602 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute349: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessHey, it's Scott here. Welcome to the daily gratitude minute. You know, I often talk about the importance of making myself a priority. First thing in the morning. I think you should as well. You know, by doing something for you, meditation, walking, yoga. Gratitude journaling, just to name a few examples.
And I noticed I really started to take my morning routine seriously after reading the miracle morning by Hal Elrod. Which outlined how to set up your morning for success. If you haven't read the miracle morning. Definitely recommend it. Uh, and when I think about how it...2022-10-0502 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute348: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby. I want to share. A quick story with you. So during my outdoor workout with the group of guys that I work out with last Thursday, we had to complete 40 pushups as part of our circuit, and then began to get a little challenging for me. After I completed 25
I had 15 left. And that's my message for you today. Most of us are going through a challenge in one fashion or another. We might be trying to achieve a life goal, might be working on a project for work...2022-10-0401 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute347: The Daily Gratitude Minute - Quotes | Gratitude | HappinessHey, welcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. Hey, if you're looking to write more handwritten, thank you notes, which I'm a big believer in. But maybe sometimes you don't know what to write and you're staring at that blank card and no words come to you. I've got a few prompts that may help you get started.
With your handwritten. Thank you note. So I'm a big believer in writing these notes, just because, uh, so instead of always writing a note because somebody got you a gift or they...2022-10-0302 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute346: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. Got a question to ask you, do you hit the snooze alarm several times and then run around frantically trying to get lunches made breakfast, eaten, showered, dressed, and off to work on time. Or do you wake up in plenty of time to practice some self-care such as meditation, reading, yoga or morning walk followed by a shower and a healthy breakfast.
How we start our morning can set the tone for the entire day. When you take the time for some self...2022-10-0201 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute345: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude and I am a member of a workout group. Uh, every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30 AM. I do an outdoor workout with a group of guys for 45 minutes. Saturday, we meet at 7:00 AM for an hour. And it's been great getting pushed by these guys, which helps me give my best effort.
And these outdoor workouts have really improved my mental and physical health over the past several months, I started in January, 2020. So right before the pandemic. And have been going consistently...2022-09-3002 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute344: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude
Over the past few weeks I've been putting together a keynote. That I'll be giving at a conference. Uh, in, well, one in late September and one in October.
And. The keynote, the talk is about gratitude in the workplace, but it's also about connection in the workplace and the fact that many workers, in fact, most employees are lonely. And part of that reason is due to lack of meaningful connection, the worst Pikes, and really in humanity in general. We're pretty lonely...2022-09-2402 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute343: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude and you know, over the past several weeks I've been updating my keynote talk as. I'll be headed to Spokane Washington in just a few days to deliver my first. In-person talk since COVID. Now I'm digging into the topic of loneliness in the workplace and stumbled upon some research from several decades ago that I actually hadn't heard of before.
So there was a psychologist named Arthur Aron, who set out to find the question, the answer to the question. How might we...2022-09-2302 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute342: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from St. With gratitude. So I first want to share a quote with you. It's one of my favorite quotes. Author's unknown, but it says this, um, particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure. I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%.
And that's pretty good. So we've all had rough days, right? Those days where it feels like you can't do anything And as the day passes your mood declines. And then just when it feels...2022-09-1401 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute341: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say it with gratitude. It is Friday. That means it's time for some fun. So I want to hear from you. And want you to go to Instagram? Find me on there. My profile is Scott Colby. And send me a DM. Let me know. What's one fun thing you've got going on this weekend.
You know, I was talking to my parents yesterday and I was just telling them that I started to do the daily gratitude minute. Once again. Uh, but I wasn't doing it quite...2022-09-0901 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute339: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude. And you know, I talk a lot about keeping a gratitude journal or writing. Thank you cards. But today I wanna switch things up a bit and share with you eight fun and somewhat different ways to express gratitude.
Okay, let's get into it. Number one. Appreciate the simple things in life. Trying to figure out what you're grateful for can seem. Overwhelming. If you're only focusing on big things. What about the simple things in life? That cup of coffee in the morning...2022-09-0203 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute338: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from SAIT with gratitude. And, you know, one of the most powerful things you can do for somebody else and for yourself is to write a handwritten card, expressing your appreciation for somebody. It's even more powerful. If you don't have a specific reason for writing the card, you just write it.
Just because. Imagine how surprised and delighted the recipient of the card will be when they see it in the mail, open it up and read it. But if you don't have a specific reason for writing...2022-08-3102 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute337: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude. You know, we sometimes forget that small, consistent steps can lead to big results. So today I'm here to remind Often we think we need to take big steps in order to make progress towards a goal, but that mindset usually leads to inaction and inconsistency.
So instead focus on taking small steps on a consistent basis. Over time, you'll reach a large goal. So if you're building a house from bricks, you're laying them one at a time. Right? The structure doesn't go...2022-08-3001 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute336: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby was saved with the gratitude, wanted to share with you a tip from my book, the grateful entrepreneur, which is all about creating relationships in your business. Uh, tip in there that actually happened to me tonight is get together with your customers and clients while you're on the road or while they're on the road. So this evening, one of my clients that I've been coaching virtually for almost two years,
She is vacationing in the smokey mountains, about 45 minutes from where I live in Knoxville. She's here...2022-08-2401 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute335: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby. And had a question for you. Do you feel like there is a lack of appreciation in your workplace? You know, research shows that 79% of employees quit their job because they don't feel appreciated at work. And even if a company does have an employee recognition program, most are doing it wrong.
You see, during an employee recognition program, a company recognizes an employee for a job. Well done. But as humans, we'd rather be appreciated for our heart. We'd rather be appreciated for who we are as a...2022-08-1901 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute334: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby was say it with gratitude. Got an unusual idea. Wanted to run by you. You know, I was interviewed on a podcast recently and we were talking about gratitude and connection in the workplace. I think connection really starts with conversations, asking questions, and then creating a safe space that allows your team to open up and speak from the heart.
I then talked about a way to take the connection. One step further, get outside in nature if possible, but at least somewhere where there is green. Having...2022-08-1801 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute333: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby. And today I want to talk about how to turn a negative into a positive. You know, in any given day, we have lots of negative thoughts running through her head. They could be thoughts about us, other people or circumstances, things we don't have literally anything.
Well, my recommendation for you this week is to challenge your thoughts. And if they are rooted in negativity, then consciously redirect them into something kind and positive. Here's an example. I hate washing the dishes versus I am thankful that I...2022-08-1201 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute332: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby of say with the gratitude. And I want to talk about my friend Celine. She lives in Denver, or actually she used to live in Denver at the time of this recording. She just left her home in Colorado, yesterday and moved to Spain with her husband and four cats.
Now what intrigues me about her journey is that she had built three businesses in Denver. A successful salon, a coffee shop and a cafe. And she gave them all up. Now she actually sold her coffee shop and...2022-08-1102 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute331: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from say with gratitude today. I want to give you a tip from my book, the grateful entrepreneur, which will help you build relationships and grow your business. It's an easy tip. Say happy birthday. That's right. I want you to send out birthday cards to every team members and customers on their birthday.
If you're connected to your customers on Facebook, the platform lets you know, when it's their birthday. Now it's somewhat a post happy birthday on their timeline. That's, you know, no arguing that, but hundreds...2022-08-1002 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute330: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby. Say it with gratitude and you know, conversations, spark, meaningful connections with others. Can help us come up with fresh new ideas. It can even help us meet new people. However, sometimes we don't know how to start conversations. It's not always easy. Right?
When we don't know what to ask, we usually default to small talk, asking questions such as how are you? All this does is to serve, to fill time and it doesn't allow you to really get to know someone. This week. I want you...2022-08-0901 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute329: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby from state with gratitude. You know, I was recently on one of my gratitude hikes. A couple of weeks ago with three best friends. And we were playing the grateful dead when we stopped first neck. And one of the questions was if you had the entire day off from work, what is one thing you do and why? And it was unanimous. They all said they would be doing what they were doing right in that moment, spending time in nature with friends.
The also mentioned that one...2022-08-0801 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute328: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. This is Scott Colby with say it with gratitude. A few months ago, I did a virtual gratitude workshop for LinkedIn. And one of the activities I had them do was to take a few minutes and find the most surprising, weird or unique facts about gratitude. Here's just a personal list of what they came up with.
Women are more grateful than men. People are less likely to express gratitude at work than anywhere else. Gratitude is good for your cholesterol. Grateful people spend more time. Exercising. Gratitude can improve your sleep...2022-08-0601 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute327: The Daily Gratitude Minute | Quotes - Gratitude - HappinessWelcome back to the Daily Gratitude Minute. This is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude. And today I want to give you a tip from my book, the Grateful Entrepreneur, and this tip is going to help you build relationships and grow your business. But this is a tip you can do in your personal life as well.
It's an easy one, but not many people are doing it. Pick up the phone and make gratitude phone calls. Remember when our phones were made for calling people. You know, nowadays it seems like they're used for everything, but calling...2022-08-0501 minThe Daily Gratitude Minute326: The Daily Gratitude Minute - Quotes | Gratitude | HappinessWelcome back to the daily gratitude minute. My name is Scott Colby and. My gratitude minute. Hasn't been so daily lately. I haven't done an episode since April 1st. My apologies took some time off, but we're back at it and today's tip. I want to talk to you about. What do you do? If you're struggling with gratitude, you know, let's face it. Sometimes we may find it difficult to practice gratitude.
What if we're going through a rough patch in our lives, or how do we practice gratitude then? Or maybe we are practicing gratitude, but we still...2022-08-0402 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteThe Gratitude JarHave you ever heard of a Gratitude Jar?
The concept is quite simple:
You jot down things that you and your family are grateful for throughout the year on small slips of paper and put them in the jar.
Anyone can grab a scrap of paper and add it to the jar.
This is a great way to instill gratitude in your children and learn to appreciate the little things in life, that we might take for granted.
TIP: Make your gratitude more powerful by adding a statement of WHY you're grateful for whatever you're writing down for your gratitude.
...2020-04-0801 minThe Daily Gratitude MinutePractical Steps to Writing Thank You Cards (Part 5)Part 5. Magnetize referrals.
One of the best ways to keep people’s mind on you is to thank them for a referral—even if the referral ends up not buying your product or service. That’s how you magnetize business. You immediately reward the referring person no matter what happens. This is called “random reinforcement.”
When you reinforce people’s behavior, they will continue that behavior. Every time someone sends you the name and phone number of a potential customer, you should send them a thank you note to reinforce that behavior. The note can say something like: “Thank you for your kind...2020-02-1301 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteSpend Time With Loved OnesSpend Time With Loved Ones: If you’re struggling with feeling the gratitude in the moment, go spend time with your friends and family. Of course it will help you grow closer to them and strengthen your relationship, but it will also give you a chance to practice your acts of gratitude on people that you care about.
If you’re having trouble finding ways to support your friends and family, you can start small. For instance, why don’t you make sure you’re listening intently the next time someone shares a story with you instead of waiting for your own...2020-02-0301 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteGratitude For Personal GrowthI've talked about a lot of ways to use gratitude to grow your business, such as sending out handwritten thank you cards.
Don't forget the importance of gratitude to help your personal growth. I recommend each morning listing or saying things or people you're grateful for, to get you in the right mindset.
If we walk around all day thinking negative thoughts, and focusing on what we don't have in life or in our businesses, that will hurt your business growth.
Flip those thoughts have focus on all that you do have and the direction you want your business to...2020-02-0200 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteGratitude MarketingMichael Sciortino wrote a book called Gratitude Marketing.
Here's how he describes gratitude marketing and how you can use gratitude to grow your business (excerpt from RMA Connect):
"While traditional marketing speaks at people, Gratitude Marketing engages and connects with people. Gratitude Marketing helps you connect on a deeper and more meaningful level with the clients you are committed to for the long term.
Gratitude motivates positive reciprocal behavior. It also combines both emotion and behavior. There is a feeling of appreciation and an expression of that appreciation through some kind of action. Gratitude, therefore, can serve as the basis...2020-02-0102 minThe Daily Gratitude MinutePractice MindfulnessPractice Mindfulness: I talk a lot about writing down what you’re grateful for. But I want you to start practicing mindfulness and think about it too! Here’s what you do: Sit down daily and think through five to ten things you are grateful for. The trick is that you need to picture it in your mind and sit with that feeling of gratitude in your body. Doing this every day will rewire your brain to be naturally more grateful, and you’ll start feeling happier after every session.
I’m Scott Colby with Say It With Gratitude and this has...2020-01-3100 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteRaising Happier KidsThis tip is about Raising Happier Kids: Now I don’t have kids myself, however, children are open books for learning and absorb things without judgment. Teach a child to be grateful by helping him or her send thank you notes for gifts received, say thank you more often, give teachers and others gifts, volunteer and I bet you’ll have happier kids as a result!
I’m Scott Colby with Say It With Gratitude and this has been your Daily Gratitude Minute. Cheers.2020-01-3000 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteGratitude For GratitudeGratitude for Gratitude...
Have you ever got a thank you gift for saying thank you? LOL
Recently individual who works in construction was interested in having us act as his Gratitude Team and handwrite cards to his prospects. He recently informed me that he was going to have to hold off doing business with me.
Was I disappointed? Yes. But I still wanted to help him. So when I recently came across a book about the power of handwritten thank you notes, I sent it to him out of the blue. For no other reason than wanting to help him...2020-01-2901 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteThe Grateful EntrepreneurIf you’re an entrepreneur or business owner, when we talk about gratitude helping your business, we need to look at personal gratitude, too, and not just expressing gratitude for your clients and customers.We know that gratitude can lead to more happiness, joy and optimism. The research has shown this.But you are sad, depressed and complaining, it will be harder to give your clients and customers the service that they deserve, right?When you add gratitude to your personal life, you'll be happier, and you'll take care of your clients better! So focus on YOU first and your ha...2020-01-2800 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteWin The MorningDo you have a morning routine that includes gratitude?===========I've been big on practicing a morning routine ever since reading The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod 5 years ago.That's when I first learned (and had it really sink in) about the importance of doing things for yourself first thing in the morning, before getting on technology and before doing things for others.My morning routine changes every couple of months, but usually consists of some variation of the following: Waking up at 5:00 am, having some water and going for a workout.After that, I take a shower, and at the...2020-01-2702 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteThank You ForIf you run a business and want to express gratitude, Add The Word “For” After Your “Thank You”: Whether you are expressing gratitude for a team member, or a customer, add the word “for” after your “thanks” or “thank you.” “Thank you for” is a more genuine and meaningful expression of gratitude. You are telling the other person WHY you are grateful. The will strengthen the worker relationship and customer experience. You can do this for all of your personal gratitudes as well
I’m Scott Colby with Say It With Gratitude and this has been your Daily Gratitude Minute. Cheers.2020-01-2600 minThe Daily Gratitude MinuteHappy ThanksgivingHi this is Scott Colby from Say It With Gratitude and welcome to the The Daily Gratitude Minute. Today is the very first episode, and it just happens to be Thanksgiving in the United States.
It’s a great day for me because It's my first time I'll be celebrating Thanksgiving with my family in Virginia in the past 20 years.
You see, in the last 20 years, I've lived in Dallas (11 years) and Denver (9 years).
Since Christmas is so close to Thanksgiving and I didn't want to pay for 2 plane tickets, I always chose to visit my family at Christmas, and to...2019-11-2801 min