How to Use Gratitude to Grow Your Business by 800%

Gratitude is single-handedly one of the biggest ways to grow your business in 2018. While not a lot of entrepreneurs are focusing on this area of development, you should be 100% into it.

You can also develop a strong sense of self-confidence, which helps you interact with clients at a much better scale. When you have an appreciation for the work you’re doing, the people you’re interacting with and the kinds of employees you’ve hired, it’s a much better feeling. The vibe and culture of the office change completely, and the workplace becomes that much more enthusiastic about producing excellence.

There are certain factors that go into developing gratitude and they’re not as simple or complicated as meditation or mindfulness. You can take practical steps to become increasingly grateful in everyday life. All you need to do is to create a life of abundance and a mentality that fuels into that. Finances, time and attention become core resources that you share instead of holding onto. These resources become keys to unlocking a multitude of opportunities and networking beyond your immediate connections.

People that are generally grateful about life are invited to more events, and people want to hang out with you more often in casual settings. That’s because there is tremendous upside in being humble and grateful about all that life’s handed to you. You’ve worked hard, and your grateful nature makes you more empathetic to other people’s situations. That’s why you can relate to what they’re saying at a deeper level.

Performing a Self-Audit

One of the best ways to reach a state of gratitude and humility is to perform a self-audit comparing yourself to your past self from 6 months ago. This is a great practice to adopt every few weeks, and it’s something that everyone should do at least once each year. This is because it allows you to realign with what’s really important in life. Otherwise, you’re so caught up in the moment of work and hustling, that you don’t have any time to reflect on all that you’ve accomplished.

On the other hand, if you’re genuinely an egoistic person you may benefit from a ‘reality-check’ and might start to change your approach based on what’s working and what’s not. You might also want to course-correct where necessary and figure out the best ways to reach your goal in the shortest time possible. If you’ve been struggling for a while now, and your attitude has held you back for years, it’s time to change.

The best way to change realistically is to adopt a gratitude-mindset and create value for other people. By creating value for your clients, your immediate employees and your vendors, you can create an abundance mindset, which is a precursor to having a grateful attitude.

Focus on the Greater Vision

When you’re deep in the trenches and you feel unlucky and alone, there might be greater advantages to focus on the larger vision at hand. This makes the startup journey that's much more bearable, as you’re not simply working towards oblivion. You have a strong goal in mind and you have the right set of tools to achieve it. That’s why you’re going to outperform the market and make things happen for yourself.

Another advantage to having a greater vision is to create better results for yourself. That inevitably leads to increased gratitude and humility. If you’re creating value for yourself and you have a stronger connection with your inner goals, then you’re going to be that much more grateful for all that you’re receiving. There may increase benefits to turning towards a greater cause, as you’re working 13-16 hours a day trying to make things work.

Gratitude is one the best ways to ensure that you’re on the right path and you’re receiving all that you can by being humble. There’s a reason behind why people think that you should be the last one to talk. That’s because you want to be a good listener and not take over the conversation fully.

Gratitude Through Work Ethic

Another practical way to increase your levels of gratitude is to increase your work ethic. Often, we have a lot of over-thinking that happens in our minds. We can easily get rid of this problem by working harder and achieving all that we set out to.

There is also a significant proportion of time that needs to be invested when it comes to working and that makes you that much calmer in tough situations. It helps you to keep things moving along and focus a portion of your mind towards gratitude. If you’re constantly worried about deadlines and project scope, you’re never going to be fully in the present moment which is where you can actually practice gratitude.

Building up a resilient work ethic involves taking strategic breaks which can help you think about how grateful you can be as well. When you’re taking a break from long work hours, you can start to focus on all the things that you have because of that work ethic. This makes you happier, calmer and helps you deal with a lot of the problems that other entrepreneurs face.

You are also more energized when you are grateful as you don’t need to ‘drag yourself’ throughout the day. You can wake up earlier and get to work sooner.

Conclusion

Gratitude is one of the most underrated ways to grow your businesses, thereby skyrocketing business for the long-term. Not only does gratitude fuel your businesses in ways that you wouldn’t have otherwise noticed, it has a charming quality about it that’s quite infectious. People want to be around others who are grateful.

People enjoy working with grateful leaders, and employees learn so much more from a grateful CEO. That’s one of the biggest tweaks that you need to make when considering your 2018 strategy.