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Today's
Meditation:
We
don't always see the people who help us to succeed.
When I've done very well in races, I've never met the
people who designed and made the shoes I wore to run a
successful race. When things go well in the
classroom, I still haven't met the people who created the
textbooks, wrote the novels or poems, or published the
material to make it available to me. A successful
business relies on distributors, buyers, customers,
marketers, and many more people, including the
construction workers who built their building or laid the
phone line or cable line for Internet access.
Many
people take success for granted, or they attribute it to a
very limited number of people. The fact is, though,
that all successes are cumulative, and for that fact the
most obvious feeling that we can naturally have is that of
gratitude. If we are wise, we'll acknowledge the
gifts of others and feel the gratitude that's appropriate
for the help that others have given us, for the
foundations that have been built that allow us to create
something new and different or to follow our dreams to
success.
Gratitude
costs us nothing, but it can be the most important element
of our lives. Gratitude acknowledges that we're not
alone, that there are things in life to be thankful for,
that we see ourselves as part of something bigger than
ourselves. That perspective and the resulting
gratitude will also come in handy in our next endeavor, as
we've learned the importance of recognizing and
acknowledging the fact that others contribute to our
success, too. When we've recognized this fact
regularly, then we can make our own contributions that
will help others to create their own successes, too.
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