I combined Fish with Funk and made magic happen without Rappin’
I started posting on LinkedIn using the #AttitudeOfGratitude over six years ago, even prior to me kicking the sauce.
You see I’ve been using gratitude and having a daily reminder and mantra of thanks since my teenage years. However, it wasn’t until about 10 years ago when I got into LInkedIn through my former company GPS Industries, which I helped pull through Federal Bankruptcy and then flip to Ingersoll Rand and Club Car for a $150M turnaround(cash went to Private Equity, your Boy still has to work ha ha ha). That adventure was with my best friend David Chessler, and that was when I noticed other people talking about the power of gratitude in a business setting on LI.
Particularly David Meltzer and Gary V, and it was exhilarating and also reaffirming that there were other people both aware of the power of gratitude and that talked about it as a “thing” that could be discussed openly.
It was like a shared secret that was coming into the open now.
You can’t choose your work all the time as I know, and if I made a list of all of the things I’ve done for money since I was 10 years old you probably wouldn’t believe it. My closest friends from Ann Arbor would, and people that visited me in Santa Cruz when I was in college….I just took an old fashioned approach to paying for College and did not want to go into massive debt.
So, whatever it took whenever I needed to do it whether it was picking fruit in the fields or trees, doing landscaping, painting, houses, waiting tables, refereeing basketball games, DJing parties, making smoothies, babysitting kids, tutoring, as long as I didn’t hurt anyone or would likely not get arrested, I was down for the job.
And because the types of jobs I was doing were not very skilled or high wage jobs, I worked with other young people or other poor people or immigrants just to put it bluntly.
I was exposed to many different approaches and attitudes about work and the approach that I gravitated towards the one that my Mexican Immigrant friends, Sebastian, Chapolin, and Frida took from a few of the restaurants I worked at in the Santa Cruz area.
They were able to come up to the United States through family that were already here and each of them had multiple jobs that they worked every day and they would talk about things like; how fat and happy their kids were because of the food and the milk in the United States, how excited they were for their kids to go to the public schools here that were so incredible, how hard it was to come to the United States, and how happy they are to work every single day which allows them to provide and send home to their parents and grandparents. They feel safe.
I never heard Sebastian, Chaplolin, or Frida complain about work about being tired or about not having enough.
They chose their attitude, and it was one of appreciation and their focus was on the benefits of the work they were doing and not on the difficulties of doing that work. Their attitude made all the difference and they had smiles on their faces just about all the time and it was contagious.
This is one of the fundamental lessons of the book FISH! that we are utilizing in conjunction with pipe coach for our initials six week self summit program which begins next week June 26.
Registration opportunity is here and we are doing the double donation model of one donation prior to launch and another one towards the end of the program week five or six when you can fully appreciate and realize the impact and value our collaborative program has provided for you personally. And obviously you don’t value your lack of donation at the end will speak volumes ha ha, I hope that’s not the case but it is what it is.
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In FISH! a woman named Mary Jane is the central character, and she experiences Pike Place fish market in Seattle for the first time and is exposed to their four principles of how you approach your job and your life according to the Fishmonger there at the market.
Here are those four fundamentals:
You can’t choose your work all the time, but you can always choose your attitude.
Invoke play in your day-to-day work activities.
Focus on other peoples experience and enjoyment in all of your interactions.
Stay present in the moment.
This musician here clearly is a FISH! Monger himself, as He decided that the was going to apply all of these principles in the process of engaging people into their music and performance.
We have a musician here that has chosen their attitude of levity and fun.
This Musician Clearly read FISH!
Furthermore, our Funkmaster considered how they could create an interactive or playful experience with the people that enjoy his music by allowing them to qualify to join the performance by giving them a tambourine and permission to get down on the get down.
These people that walk up, thinking they are going to be spectators in a performance our soon transformed into fellow performers as they continue to enjoy the performance. This is an incredible way to make someone’s day and make an experience all about someone else.
A great lesson in making someone’s day right here.
Our Funky musician is staying present in the moment, anticipating the opportunity to perform when that happens to be completely intertwined with his audience as they create a shared experience that is unique every single time.
These principles can be applied and combined with other wellness and mindfulness practices, such as breathing techniques, guided or self guided meditation, inspirational conversations with inspired thought leaders(or Super Sherpas), and you were creating not just few things to remember, but an overall shifting of your approach and mindset in your life.
Everyone is experiencing the same world, but we have the opportunity to decide in what way we perceive our experience and how to a place where we are choosing our own thoughts that benefit us and contribute to our happiness and productivity or sense of fulfillment.
Remember, it’s not the dress rehearsal life and you will never get in trouble for laughing or having fun as long as you continue to stay responsible and don’t drop the ball on your fundamental day-to-day obligations.
Be kind to yourself, which will allow you to be kind to others and realize it’s just a journey and getting a little bit better every day like the spirit of Kaizen, is a approach to because it’s practical and it’s not overwhelming.
Your morning is your launch pad for your day so congratulations for starting your day with a little bit of gratitude and as you go out and move about the world, make sure you consider invoking the principles of FISH! and stay present and look while looking for other folks to Stoke and shine your bright Attitude of Gratitude.
EVERY DAY:
Love
and
Gratitude
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Thank you sincerely.
The G.I.F.T. Today
Grateful: to never feel overwhelmed or out of control, ever.
Intention-the flow of the week begins now, ease and flow bro
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Every day, every way, grateful.
KC
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