gina drellack

Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.

Posted on November 22, 2023 Leave a Comment

Gratitude and appreciation are like conjoined twins: they can’t get away from each other. Plus, both are needed in order to be whole.

Gratitude is a state of being. It’s feeling good about and thankful for the things in our lives. Appreciation is more participatory. It’s the enjoyment of this goodness in our lives. Appreciation is our actually partaking in the things that we’re grateful for.

The beautiful, the magical, the miraculous.

Begin here

Posted on November 15, 2023 Leave a Comment

I heard this from a presenter at a conference session, about working with AI:

“I’ve found you get better results when you are polite.”

And isn’t this true for life in general?!?

We get what we give. It’s not about the other, it’s about us. We shape our experiences. Always.

Say please and thank you. To everything. That’s a great start.

Four words you should say every day:
Thank you!
Great idea!
Dr. Charlie miller, flip Founder and corporate vice president of social learning at microsoft

Check myself

Posted on November 8, 2023 Leave a Comment

I read this poem the other day, by the same person who wrote Autobiography In Five Short Chapters. It stopped me in my tracks.

Listen to what you criticize
most severely
And you will hear
what you most fear
you are.
Portia nelsoon

Wow.

Maybe it was because I had just come off of an awareness that I’ve been in an undesired mental loop. On the one hand, it’s good to let sh*t move through and out. Acknowledge what I’m feeling, so it can release. On the other hand, it’s not good to create sh*t to then go through this process with.

Take care of what’s there, yes. Create stuff to then take care of because that’s the comfortable – whithin – the – uncomfortable rut I’m in, no.

It really isn’t ever about the other person, is it…?

I’m choosing a new perspective, now.

Hey interestingly, after connecting this poem to the linked one at the beginning that I adore, I looked up Portia Nelson. Among many other things, she played Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music!! (Was she the one that was in on the car sabotage?!?)