Thanksgiving week always feels a little different, for some the entire week is a holiday for which you’ve planned a vacation or short getaway. For others, you’re carefully crafting how you’re going to bake your turkey; maybe this is your first time: examining “what does brine mean” and how’re you’re going to fit the 38 pounder in your oven. Or maybe you’re a guest somewhere and planning the perfect wine paring, or brunch outfit. Either way it’s a time to reflect, relax, and revel in gratitude!
If it’s tempting to treat this week as a soft pause button, that’s exactly what you should do! Add a side of gratefulness and the joy that comes with the pause. Because a detour from “real work, along with a quick exhale from dashboards, deadlines, Q4 targets is your cultural permission slip to take a pause and enjoy the day. To have a Happy Thanksgiving before you dive back and finish the year strong.
Treat the conversations, reflections, and quiet moments that happen around Thanksgiving as a critical part of evolving success. Truly appreciate the moment, feel gratitude for where you are in this journey. In an industry obsessed with it’s next launch, next valuation, gratitude can sometimes feel like it’s sentimental or soft. However, in reality it’s one of your most powerful “tools,” we have to thrive, lead and move forward intentionally! Gratitude is in your attitude, make it count.
Treat the people you care about as part of your success story, not separate from it. Gratitude always invites you to pursue your goals from a clear, connected place; and gives you opportunities to recharge here and there as part of your success strategy.
Tech Trend Forward wishes you a Thanksgiving filled with gratitude, presence, perspective and delicious food. Laughs and appreciation for how far you’ve come, and all the possibilities that still lies ahead.
