Serving others is what brings out its potency.
“Talking with a perspective client:
‘You’re about 45-minutes away from us, will this commute be okay?’
‘Ray, based on your quality referrals, I dont care if you were an hour and 45-minutes away, we would give you our full commitment.’
To this day, one things still hit hard.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
Gratitude.
I have learned that it is a super power.
And I’m not talking about the cheap quick thanks most people give when something favorable comes their way that they’ll let go of the moment something moderately adverse interrupts their ideal circumstances, but the real stuff.
Real gratitude isn’t just something that’s here today and gone tomorrow.
It’s a construct that develops and resides in your soul, from a deep sense of appreciation for the ability to serve others.
“Huh? I thought gratitude was about being thankful for things?”
It absolutely is, but I’ve learned that gratitude doesn’t find it’s potency from simply being thankful for a nice car or a lavish vacation, but from serving others.
What I mean by this is that our lives only have value if we are able to use our gifts to share with and benefit others, so at gratitude’s roots you’ll find service.
Next to my relationship with Jesus and my family, what I am most thankful for in my life isn’t my vehicles, it’s not my hunting cabin, and it’s not my fancy training equipment either (I am thankful for these things, don’t get me wrong), what I am most thankful for is the ability to serve others by way of my passion.
I get to wake up every day and use an avenue that I deeply love to benefit other people. There is not thing or dollar amount in the world that would ever be able to match the fulfillment of being able to do this.
And I call this my job? I mean in what world?
This is why gratitude abounds in me.
Here I am 13 years into this gig and I get off of what has to be 1 of thousands of perspective client acquisition calls and I hear, “I don’t care if you were an hour and 45 minutes from us, we would give you our full commitment.”
What? Me? Why?
This person doesn’t even know me.
I thanked him for his kind words, but when we got off the phone, it hit me hard.
While I teared up pretty good, I told God with gratitude, all of this is for Him.
Thank you all for trusting Zingler Strength.
