Grateful humility

“Life is expensive. We are incredibly grateful you chose to spend the evening with us.” Need to Breathe at the NWA Amp last week.

Those 2 statements stopped the crowd. They brought unity as everyone suddenly recognized the grateful humility of the people on the stage.

True at the concert and true in life.

When one approaches life with natural, grateful humility, others are drawn in unity to the person, the company, the team. Grateful humility is arguably the most magnetic trait that exists. I am for the one who is grateful.

Grateful and humility are naturally connected. Being grateful naturally humbles. If you are grateful, you know that ultimately whatever you are speaking of is a gift, be it a job or a personal characteristic. Gratefulness drives humility.

And, much flows out of a person, a family, a company, or a team that is filled with grateful humility. Stewardship happens as you recognize that all you have is a gift. Joy flows as you drive unity versus division. A focus on others naturally occurs as one recognizes how they have been served. Gratefulness creates a heart that loves as you realize you were first loved.

Grateful humility brings personal joy. Grateful humility will bind a team as the focus becomes greater than the individual. A company that lives grateful humility drives business as an experience is created. Who doesn’t go back to a restaurant that is full of stewards, people that are gratefully serving the customer.

I guess the question is how do you produce gratefulness, which in turn would drive humility.

For me, it is time alone with God. I am compelled to begin the day in this way, as the practice inevitably recalibrates what needed calibration.

We all dive into the week today with a certain frame of mind. Maybe running. Maybe stressed. Maybe, by the time you are reading this, the day feels lost.

If you can pause and flip the switch to grateful humility, much will flow out of your life today and this week. And, we do control the switch.