The gift of Gratitude usually starts with a "Thank you"
Thank you Everyone
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Just Around the Corner
Celebrating 150 Years of Service
West Chester, PA based Yerkes Associates, established in 1874, is one of the oldest Civil Engineering and Surveying firms in the country. Next year, 2024 will mark 150 years of service to the greater Philadelphia region. Stay tuned. More to come !
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Leadership Corner by Nick Cirilli, PE
The unheard of benefit of being Grateful! IS it a major factor in helping someone reach their goals?
Why would someone (or group) want to help another in achieving their goals? Especially if that someone (or group) is treated ungratefully, never thanked, or made to feel unappreciated?
When "one" is kind and respectful and grateful to "someone else", chances are that "someone else" will more than likely jump through hoops to help that "one" reach their goals.
Why? Because positive recognition is a basic human need, just like breathing, eating and sleeping. Every human being wants to be valued. Take that need away and your circle of friends or support group will go elsewhere, somewhere where they are valued, perhaps not immediately but definitely over time.
Of course the "other factors" are essential too...being an excellent communicator, knowing your audience, drive, honesty, trustworthiness, persistence, SMART, and realistic.
On a stoic level, there is much written about also being grateful for one's setbacks and annoyances....."for being grateful for difficult people, and difficult circumstances. It is all of those things, interconnected and dependent on each other, that made us who and what we are today. It is only by seeing the totality of things, good and bad, that we gain the understanding necessary to be truly grateful." (reference 1) Being grateful for one's setbacks and suffering is also a virtue with many religions as well.
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Gratitude through the Ages: Religious traditions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all encourage cultivating gratitude as an important moral virtue. For millennia, gratitude has been a popular topic among philosophers: (reference 2, p.10)
• Cicero said gratitude “is not only the greatest one but also the mother of all the other remaining virtues”. Cicero (106-43 B.C., Orator and Politician of the Roman Empire)
• Seneca “ranked ingrates below thieves, rapists and adulterers”. Seneca (65 CE) Roman philosopher (CE: common era after Death of Christ)
• Hume wrote, “Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude”. David Hume (1711 - 1776) Scottish philosopher
• Smith believed that gratitude was vital for maintaining a society based on goodwill.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish philosopher and economist.
(Emmons & Crumpler, 2000) [484], (McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, & Larson, 2001) [1134], (Manela, 2015). (reference 2, p. 10)
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"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway". Stanza in Saint Mother Teresa's "Anyway Poem"
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Layout-Photography-Articles: Nick Cirilli,PE, PLS
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