What’s your gratitude plan for your business?

I wrote this in my journal one day a while back: Thanks, Happy-Giving!

Then, during the winter of 2007 I sat down with Jim - a mentor of mine - for one of our quarterly breakfast meetings. While we ate oatmeal (him) and pancakes (me), Jim asked me a question that I’ve still been answering almost every day.

Have you ever walked away from a meeting with someone KNOWING that that conversation had the potential to change everything?

Here was the question he asked, “Jason, what’s your gratitude plan for your business?"

I had a business plan. A financial plan. A marketing plan. I even had a “hire-a-freelancer” plan! I had a customer care plan, as well as a product development plan. But…a “gratitude” plan?

 

As a social psychologist, I study interconnectedness. I write down hypotheses and then I go do my research. I read studies, I interview experts, I find information and statistics that prove (or disprove) what I set out to find. Well, this one discussion almost 9 years ago was one of the most “interdisciplinary” ones I’ve come across.

Here’s that question, and I invite YOU to answer it:

 

What’s your gratitude plan for your business? 

Click HERE to share this question...

In a blog post titled, Brain, Consciousness, Gratitude and Productivity, I write about the interconnected and interdisciplinary condition of studying the “Three -ologies” that I spend my life helping people like you understand. The 3 are:

1. Psychology
2. Sociology
3. Technology

To read that post (Brain, Consciousness, Gratitude and Productivity) just visit this page...

Want to grow more this year? Here are three ideas...

If you're going to be any different, any more productive and any more (by your definition) successful, watch your associations. The people you spend time with, they'll jack you up and push you further...

...or they won't.

Want to grow more this year? Here are three ideas...

1. Think in a place you won’t be interrupted for 30 minutes.

Reserve a conference room, or find a quiet(er) corner of a cafe. Go there with a pen and a journal to think deeply about a big, long-term project. You’ll get more quality work done in a shorter amount of time if you protect yourself from interruptions by (1) other people, (2) your own workspace and (3) your technology.

There are two reasons to do this:

(A) you just may be interrupted fewer times during that work session, and
(B) you just might interrupt those you work around a bit less!

One of the most significant impediments to getting things done during the day is the constant “task-switching” people have to do going from one interruption to the next.

Click here to read the next two ideas...