Everyday Leaders
Dear Everyday Leaders in Canada and around the World,
It’s July 2025 and once again, I feel a surge of my red and white grateful love for this country. Yes, there are regrets and resentments and realizations that Canada isn’t perfect. But honestly? Without mistakes, we don’t get a chance to learn hard lessons and keep moving in the direction of “doing better”. Here’s a shout of gratitude to all of the people and everyday leaders who show up daily, doing the best they can, given the tools and information at hand.
Gratitude points me in the direction of my true north stars as I grow Grassroots Gratitude programs and workshops. Check out Grassroots Gratitude Workshops by clicking here.
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Finding your reasons to be grateful and really pausing to think about the things you love will helps as you recalibrate and realign yourself to your authentic true north. Gratitude helps you align your sights to your higher moral compass.
Vision: A kinder kind of leadership
Mission: To encourage a writing habit that cultivates feelings of abundance, grit, gratitude and creativity.
Outcome: One in five Canadians will practice writing thoughtfully, honestly, confidently facing personal challenge with hope, positivity, grace, and gratitude.
It’s July 2025 and we need to get going! As I write in the attached FREE Download…
Gratitude is like a corkscrew that touches our hearts and souls, and connecting our internal compass to the world beyond. Gratitude hinges the soft spots buried deep within us to our expansive place in the universe. Through gratitude, we can look inside ourselves, and simultaneously see ourselves within our greater ecosystem of relationships, realities and the galaxies that connect us to the past, present, and future.
Gratitude is an essential tool for building cooperation. Gratitude is an attitude that can be trained – consider it a mental muscle. Fostering gratitude is a secret strength in every walk of life, and especially in community leadership. There is an irony, though: Gratitude is deeply personal, buried in the privacy of your heart, but generates maximum benefit when it is shared publicly. Gratitude becomes generosity. Gratitude becomes your life purpose in motion. Gratitude can ground you in your priorities while motivating you to expand your networks and accept the help of others.
Researchers have reported that the top three character strengths most strongly correlated with well-being are: Hope, Gratitude and Love.
Research also confirms that Kindness is a Character Strength and as leaders, we need to keep our kinder, more hopeful, more grateful and empathetic muscles toned. Research also confirms that an effective way to strengthen your gratitude muscles and wire your fleeting moments of gratitude, actually changing the shape of your brain, is to write longhand in a journal. By hardwiring your thoughts towards the positive and decommissioning the default switches that easily fire a negative mindset, you are rewiring your brain’s thought patterns. By intentionally shifting your mental habits towards positivity, you are also improving your coping mechanisms, when faced with adversity. When approached on a regular basis, gratitude deepens our joys and brightens our burdens. And, one of the most powerful ways to build gratitude muscles is to keep a journal.
Writing slowly and using a pen is the best way to approach thinking and processing gratitude and its many complexities, as it links your thoughts in the fertile soil of memories, dreams, and experiences, to your emotions in the here and now.
But, do you know what? All of the science and data and evidence and case studies in the world will only come true when you prove the benefits of writing longhand to yourself.
So — here’s a nudge to find your own grateful magic. Attached FREE Download, Gratitude Jumpstart Guide, I invite you to write longhand, with a paper and pen, in a private, comfortable, calm space. Why? Because I want you to be well.
Why else? Because I am planning my programs for the rest of 2025 with a commitment to: Make the rest of it the best of it! Got a comment? Please get in touch.
With love,
