Are You Thankful?
Today I just wanted to stop a moment…and say thank you.
Thank you to my readers. Thank you to my customers. Thank you to my coaching clients. Thank you to my wife. Thank you to God.
It’s easy to forget to say thank you. It’s easy to keep going along thinking it’s all about us. It’s easy to take those around you for granted.
You can always tell when someone has gotten locked up in their own selfish world….and forgotten those around them.
They’re always talking about themselves. They’re always putting others down. They talk about what breaks they didn’t get. They talk about how they worked themselves up from their bootstraps.
When someone enters that mindset…they’re better than everyone else. No one else can seem to measure up to them.
A heart that’s full of gratitude will be a heart that’s also full of love for others.
Taking time to say thank you to God and those around you will help you step out of selfishness and selfish attitudes. It helps free your mind from worry. It gives you a better attitude. And it definitely makes you a much more fun person to be around.
I’ve gone through struggles in my life. I’ve had problems. I’ve also had success.
I went from being tens of thousands of dollars in debt to making a very high six figure net income online in just a few years. In many ways, I feel success is a much bigger test for our personality and character than failure ever will be.
When I went from failure to success…for quite a while I thought it was all about me…that I succeeded because I’m such a genius. People referred to me as a “guru.” I flew around the country, signed autographs, and told people my wonderful systems of success.
I became enamored with myself.
With that, I also became “Full of Myself.” Arrogant. Thinking I was better than others. Rude to those around me…because it was all about me.
Thank God I sold that business and retired from the Internet for a while. Making money online is easy when you know what you’re doing…so I had made more than enough to go into retirement.
Was my success because I was so smart…and wonderful?
No…it wasn’t. Let me quote a scripture from the Bible, 1 Cor 4:7, NASU Translation:
“For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?”
I succeeded because of God and those around me.
I’m so thankful…
- To My Wife who has always been there for me.
Even when others told me I couldn’t do it…She told me she believed in me. Even when I spent money we couldn’t afford to start a business…She stood beside me. She has been there for me when we were poor. She was there for me when we became rich…even when she had to suffer through my arrogant and self-centered attitude.
No one could ever ask for someone so kind and generous as she has been to me. She has always been there for a kind word…and to help whenever I’ve needed it…even when I’ve been ungrateful.
“Thank you Julie…whenever you read this….I love you and appreciate you more than anything in my life.”
- To My Parents who always told me I could do anything I put my mind to.
Both of my parents always told me I could be anything and do anything I wanted to in life. They never once told me I couldn’t be a success. Even though we had our conflicts at times (like all teenagers and young adults), I’m so thankful to them. Thank you.
- To My Mentors
I could have never succeeded online without the information I learned from others. While I designed many of the techniques I used online, the ideas and basic instruction came from people in the direct mail and direct marketing world offline. I never even spoke to a few of these people, but they’ve influenced me…and helped lead me to success. Thank you.
- To My Joint Venture Partners
No business is an island to itself. I’m thankful to all those who have done joint venture deals with me or promoted my company as an affiliate. The success has never just been my own. It has been all of us together. The people in this group are too numerous to mention. Thank you!
- To My Customers and Clients
What’s a business without customers and clients? While I’ll never know every customer I’ve had by name, I have built strong relationships with quite a few of them. Almost all my coaching clients become friends, because we wouldn’t work together if we didn’t mix. Thank you to everyone of you. I appreciate you.
- To God
Whether you believe in God or not, it doesn’t really matter. He makes the sun to shine on those who love Him…and those who ignore or hate Him. Everything above was entrusted to me by Him. My health…everything I have…everything I have or ever will accomplish comes from Him. Thank you!
If you read this far…I appreciate you suffering today’s rambling post.
My one question to you is….What are you thankful for?
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Terry,
Thanks to you for sharing your knowledge with your online friends. The Roman philosopher Cicero said “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.â€
And we all need to remember the wisdom from Deuteronomy 8:18 — “But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth.”
Jerry Purvis
I hope I can someday will achieve the similar result that you have had today too
And thank you for the nice and inspiring post.
Cheers!
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Hi Terry, Cornell Nicholson here, I have been watching you for over two years and I have always appreciated your knowledge of internet marketing, advertising , the internet business in general and lastly but not lest your boldness to acknowledge our Heavenly Father to the world in business . I also ditto that same comment from an earlier subscriber, Jerry Purvis, Deut. 8.18 ” But remember the Lord your God , for it is he (God) who gives you (Terry , and anyone of us reading this post)the ability to produce wealth…..”
Thanks Terry,
Cornell
Terry I am in tears and laughter and many emotions when I read your articles. I am thankful for a coach like you. I bought my son a portable thesauraus when he was in the fourth grade. I played with it before I gave it to him. I had chills go down my spine when I typed in the word “provider” , what came back and every form of that word “GOD”. It was one thing for me to have grown up in church and read in the bible that God is my provider. But to see that the definetion of Provide, provider, provision, and synonyms was God from this secular small calculator type piece of equipment. It changed everything in the way I started talking with God Almighty that very day.
Terry,
I have heard of you many times but never got the chance to know you.
That is too bad, I think you are a very special person.
I just found this post today, over a year after it was written.
It made me want to tell everyone reading how grateful I am. I am still in
debt and nowhere near making it online, but I know I will make it some
day.
Sometimes I forget to be grateful.
Even though I am in debt and have little, I am still grateful because I have
more than so many people out there.
There are those who don’t have a home, I have one for now.
After reading your post, I just felt like I should be grateful and thankful
for what I have that others may not have.
You are so inspiring to me Terry. I hope to make it online soon so I can
afford to meet you or hire you for my coach.
Have a beautiful day,
Tammy