Gratitude is the start of a journey. A journey to happiness, better health, and self-leadership.

When we practice gratitude, we protect the value of the things we have and the people in our lives because we see and acknowledge them. We treat and handle them with care.

When we don’t acknowledge the presence of the people, events, and things that form the advantage we have, their value decreases, first to us, then to them. This makes us blind.

First, blind to how awesome they are and the roles play in our lives, then blind to what they could become! Because to extract value from a thing, we must see it as valuable and for that to happen, we must acknowledge its presence and the role it plays.

This unlocks genius because now we see what we have, not what we want to have or what others have… now we can be present and see how what we have leads us to what we want.

Gratitude is a choice. A choice to see, a choice to be happy, a choice to lead and we can make it right here, right now.

It starts by seeing.