 doesn’t it? That type of cycle could describe a victory for a football team, an Oscar for an actor, a Grammy for a musician, a break-through for a scientist, a promotion to a better job, a record-breaking year for a sales team, or a milestone goal that you’ve achieved.
Well, what if you flipped that process? Or at least started what what’s commonly found at the end? What if you didn’t wait for success to happen to express your gratitude but, instead, made that the very foundation of all that you are about to do?
That’s the approach recommended by Cael Sanderson.
Never heard of him? That’s not surprising. Sanderson is one of the most successful college coaches in history, but he coaches one of those under-the-radar non-revenue sports – wrestling. I know about him not because I’m personally a huge fan of that sport, but because he works for my alma mater, Penn State University.
This weekend, while most of the college sports world was glued to basketball’s March Madness, Sanderson focused on winning the NCAA wrestling championships at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. The Nittany Lions had individual champions in three weight classes and won their fourth consecutive team title and their eighth in the past nine years.
But as Sanderson told Jerry DiPaola of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s the online Tribune-Review, his success as a coach, and Penn State’s success in wrestling, doesn’t end with gratitude, it begins with gratitude.
Sanderson has a long history of success. As a wrestler at Iowa State, he was a four-time NCAA champion who never lost a match (he was 159-0). As if that weren’t enough, he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. But he never took that success for granted, and he teaches his teams to begin each day with thankfulness – not just for the wins, but for the opportunities they’ve been given.
“If we got Gatorade in practice when I was in college, that was a big day,” he said. “We were really excited about that. Things have come a long way since then. Student-athletes, they’re not really taught that principle. It’s more of an entitlement at the collegiate athletic level. It’s going more and more in that direction. You see that on a national level.
In my experience, starting each day with gratitude creates the mindset that allows success to bloom in our lives. Practicing gratitude throughout the day not only motivates and inspires me, but positions me to influence others for their good and the greater good. And it sets me up to experience contentment so that success isn’t just about the results on a scoreboard.
Psychology Today points out that practicing gratitude is about more than offering a routine “thank you.” It’s more about “paying attention to what we are thankful for to the degree of feeling more kind and compassionate toward the world at large.” When we do that, studies confirm what Sanderson said and what I’ve experienced – we reap the benefits of gratitude.
If we start with that type of gratitude, we can regularly experience the joys of true success.
As we were leaving Assisi, we passed a brick street into which the words "Pax et Bonum" had been inlaid in white. Someone asked what that meant, and I replied "Peace and Good" without thinking -- having had 3 years of Latin in high school, I find the simple bits still come easily to me.
As our bus lumbered off toward Rome, I found myself thinking Peace and Good didn't sound quite right. Could it be peace and goodness? I resolved to look it up later, but didn't think of it again until this morning, as I was meditating on this morning's passages in Kornfield's The Wise Heart.
Today I am reading about the roots -- and transformation -- of anger and hatred. It seems a fitting subject, as I came home to an email box full of angry, hateful invective against various political candidates. Kornfield gently reminds us that anger and hatred invariably emerge as an internal response to fear and pain. At the same time he tells us that there are alternative responses, and that when we choose those alternatives the universe inevitably benefits.
What are those alternative responses to fear and pain? Mindfulness, connectedness, compassion, concern, strength and fearlessness. All especially tricky to maintain when we are feeling threatened by pain, fear, or loss. And as I thought about how I might respond to all that political invective this morning, I remembered this image, which I unearthed yesterday as I looked over the photos I brought home from Assisi. And as I visualized the words Pax et Bonum, a sense of peace stole over me. Ah, I thought, that's the message for today.
When I checked the computer for a more accurate translation, it told me that, no, peace and good was exactly right -- and it was the motto of St. Francis of Assisi. Which is interesting, because apparently Francis originally intended to be a soldier. Unfortunately he was captured and imprisoned during his first battle and later contracted a disease which severely weakened him so that fighting would no longer be an option.
Somehow this brings me back to the mystical hope I wrote about yesterday. Because you could certainly imagine that a year in prison and a debilitating illness would be fearful, painful and threatening experiences. Yet out of that emerged a saint whose words of hope inspire us still over 8 centuries later -- precisely because he chose to transform his experiences into a lifetime commitment to peace and compassion.
I like that: that those of us who choose to allow their fears and pain, anger and hatred, to be transformed by God are working together in community with God -- and, across time, with St. Francis -- to bring about Pax et Bonum.The startup ecosystem has managed to cross the ballpark of $500 Mn in investment across 39 deals this week. The startup ecosystem has managed to raise $557 Mn between June 6 and 11. This is 19% up from the $468 Mn funding that the startup ecosystem had raised last week across 27 deals.
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