{"id":8654,"date":"2020-11-16T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T16:42:50","slug":"why-we-need-a-lot-of-thanksgiving-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/why-we-need-a-lot-of-thanksgiving-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need a Lot of Thanksgiving in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why We Need a LOT of Thanksgiving in 2020\n<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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As I’m writing the title for this post, my thoughts turned a popular, uplifting Christmas song We Need a Little Christmas.<\/em><\/strong> (from the Broadway musical Mame<\/a><\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

I don’t wish to diminish Christmas spirit.\u00a0 But since it’s November of 2020, let’s not get look too far ahead. This is an opportunity to\u00a0leverage the potential therapeutic value of Thanksgiving.\u00a0 I believe we need more than a little<\/strong> <\/em>Thanksgiving this year. We need a LOT of Thanksgiving<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 This stems from my discovery that…<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Resiliency is a By-Product of Gratitude<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Without warning, the events of 2020 challenged our resiliency.\u00a0 We’ve all temporarily<\/em> lost much of life that we took for granted.\u00a0 Then we discovered the temporary <\/strong><\/em>conditions would longer than expected to go away.\u00a0 This required us to summon even more resiliency<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The challenge intensified.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How do we get more resiliency?\u00a0<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Resiliency is not something you can order on Amazon.\u00a0 You need to order it up from inside yourself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Resiliency <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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“Quickly recovering from adversity.”<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The best way to develop more resiliency is to embrace an attitude of gratitude<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It’s all too easy to focus, lament and complain about all that’s missing this year.\u00a0 The more you do so, the less resilient<\/em><\/strong>, you’ll be. When you lack resiliency, you limit your ability to recover from the adversity and thereby put your mental well being at risk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

To help you get started, how about…\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Taking Inventory<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What Are You Grateful For?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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So through all that’s happened …<\/h4>
  • What do you still have?\u00a0<\/li>
  • What’s not missing?<\/li>
  • Who are the important people in your life that aren’t missing?\u00a0<\/li>
  • Who are the people who are no longer in your life that you were privileged\u00a0 to know?\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>

    To help with the last two questions, I am maintaining my Thanksgiving Tradition of sharing Life on The Train<\/em>.\u00a0 In doing so, I challenge you to become a more grateful person. It will help you find much needed resilience and make you easier to live and work with.<\/p>

    We all need a lot<\/strong> <\/em>of Thanksgiving this year!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    I wish you and your passengers<\/em> the very best of the season. I feel honored and blessed to have ridden, however briefly, on your<\/em><\/strong> train<\/em>.<\/p>

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    Without warning, the events of 2020 challenged our resiliency. We\u2019ve all temporarily lost much of life that we took for granted. Then we discovered the temporary conditions would longer than expected to go away. This required us to summon even more resiliency. The challenge intensified. How do we get more resiliency? The answer lies in the celebration of Thanksgiving. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New on #Leadership Breakthroughs - Why We Need a Lot of Thanksgiving in 2020 #resiliency #gratitude","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[22,23,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abundance-vs-scarcity","category-attitude-development","category-self-leaderhship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thanksgiving-FI.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1I2Yr-2fA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoexecutivecoaching.com\/smartleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}