Did you have a positive Thanksgiving?

Today’s post is created in the capital of New Mexico, Santa Fe. Every few years, Heidi and I come here to look at our property, review the developments in this amazing town, meet some friends and enjoy the lifestyle that can only be found in this corner of the country.

It has been awesome, as each time before. Besides enjoying some snow and getting into the holiday mood, I also did a little work and read a book. It’s titled “Life’s Golden Ticket” by Brendon Buchard. For anybody wondering how to change and become more successful, caring, service oriented, and most of all – create better relationships, I can truly recommend this novel.

For our development as better managers, leaders, and individuals, I found a truth I knew about before. It was brought into focus through the reading but also because of the reflection the holidays bring about.

We can watch the Macy’s parade, or the football games on ABC, NBC, and ESPN. We can go out and shop for gadgets at Best Buy, CompUSA, Wal-Mart, and Target, following the experts predictions that home electronics will e the big sellers this year.

What we shouldn’t forget is some retrospect of our achievements and struggles throughout this year. In the fast paced world we live in, many people have adopted a process in which they identify all the hurdles, obstacles, problems and issues they might face on the way towards a goal, be it in business or at home.

What I have tried on my personal journey to success for my family, my company AMC LLC, and those I come in touch with, is to focus more on the positive things. In his book, Brendon Burchard has a passage when the mentor talks about scenes in the students life. There were five unhappy scenes and five better ones. It reads:

“You see, you are like most people. You are the type of person to remember all the scary rides and forget all the pleasant ones. The simple ones. The beautiful ones. I think you’ve been living your life focused on those first five scenes and the dark themes they’ve represented. I think you’ve obsessed about the experiences in life that dropped you to the ground, and you have overlooked all those that slowly and gently lifted you higher”.

For our development as managers, leaders and individuals with positive goals and aspirations, we should take this message to heart, recognize the less fulfilling things, but celebrate what worked, got us ahead, and made us smile. With a positive attitude and the positive energy our small success generate we become the positively charged magnet that attracts all the goods things we are hoping and looking for. In addition it also makes us a source of attraction others gravitate towards, which helps form strong bonds and achieves goals as a team and in harmony.

Like John Kotter taught me and I encourage you today:

Find the positive things in your life and celebrate all the small wins –

it will make life ore enjoyable and make you successful in the process.

Axel Meierhoefer, President AMC LLC