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Here’s part 2 of my Gratitude List recommendations. A few items that are not strictly books: a journal, a letter-writing book, and a gratitude stone. These are all great tools that I have used (and one I wrote myself!) and recommend. Take a look at the whole list on my Gratitude List on Amazon. Let me know what you recommend adding.

These make great gifts for the New Year!

Check out the list on Amazon; https://www.amazon.com/finds/post/list/amzn1.ideas.284Q1BKBOPZ3L

If you know me, you’ll know I love to read, and you’ll know I am all about gratitude. I couldn’t end this year without putting together a list of books about gratitude. It was hard to narrow down, so this is part 1 - keep an eye out for part 2 or click through to my Gratitude Books Amazon list to see them all.

These make great gifts for the new year!

https://www.amazon.com/finds/post/list/amzn1.ideas.284Q1BKBOPZ3L

Need a last minute holiday gift? Give the gift of knowledge and inspiration with the books I have covered this year during my GEMS Reverse Book club where I read and you learn! 🎁✨ Here’s a list of what we covered in 2023 -
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1. “Change Anything” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler - The new science of personal success.

2. "Into the Magic Shop” by James R. Doty, MD - A neurosurgeon’s request to discover the mysteries of the brain the secrets of the heart.

3. "What for you here, won’t get you there” by Marshall Goldsmith - How successful people become more successful!

4. “Winning the Brain Game” by Matthew E. May - Fixing the 7 fatal flaws of thinking.

5. “Change Friendly Leadership” by Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan - How to change good intentions into great performances.

6. "Fixing Feedback” by Georgia Murch

7. "Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman - Why Emotional Intelligence can matter even more than IQ.

8. “The Threshold” by Nick Chatrath - Leading in the age of AI.

9. “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin - How US Navy Seals lead and win.

10. “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman - Time management for mortals.

11. “Grit” by Angela Duckworth - The power of passion and perseverance.

12. “The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership” by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kale Warner Klemp - A new paradigm for sustainable success.

Which leadership book are you excited to share? (I’m curious looking for 2024 recommendations) Share your recommendations!

PS - If you don’t want to read them, join GEMS. I read them and share in 55 minutes or less helpful and practical application of these. Recordings are available of all these, if you join for just one month! 📚✨

Check out this list on Amazon; https://www.amazon.com/finds/post/list/amzn1.ideas.31VNK5714S1AU

If you want to learn and be inspired by a classic tale of poor to rich from one of the world’s top neuroscientists, please join me for a GEMS review of, Into the Magic Shop, A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and Secrets of the Heart, by James R. Doty, MD

You can’t control others; you can only control your body and mind, which is powerful. When James was young, he met a woman who taught him how, using empathy and compassion.

I will share with you the immediately actionable GEMs taught to James that led to him getting all he wanted in life. The content of this book when applied is life changing.

Join me December, Friday 15 at noon EST. 🔗 in bio!
https://leadingwithgratitude.net/monthly-leadership-gems/

If you get stuck overthinking or overanalyzing and want more innovative, simple, and practical results, please join me to hear what Matthew E. May says in Winning the Brain Game.

He shows us how thinking less can lead to working more and how we can use the power of our minds to break through to new and elegant solutions. We'll do it in a fun and easy-to-apply way.

I'm excited about this Friday's Gems, Winning the Brain Game. You know that saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?" This webinar teaches you how to think differently to get different results. I've been using these techniques for a while now on myself and with clients. I can tell you: They work!

His mantra is:

- What appears to be the problem, isn't
- What appears to be the solution, isn't
- What appears to be impossible, isn't

BOOK: Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the Fatal Flaws of Thinking

DATE: Friday, November 17, at noon ET.

https://leadingwithgratitude.net/monthly-leadership-gems/

Today I presented ‘How to Grow Innovation by Using Gratitude as a Growth Fertilizer’ at the SIM Boston Technology Leadership Summit.

Drop me a wave if you were there! 👋

How are you thinking about AI? Are you overwhelmed, geeking out, or avoiding it?

I’m geeking out over AI. I love learning about it and watching how fast it changes things. This month’s GEM is focused on how you can be a successful leader in this new age of AI.

I’ll share the book The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI by Nick Chatrath.

Nick says it’s not enough to “pivot”; instead, we must embrace what makes us human and live in a place of unknowing and uncertainty. What does it mean, and how do you do that? Please join me to find out.

More Info and Sign up Here! https://bit.ly/GemsSignUp

Join us on Friday, Oct 20th at noon ET

What’s the most powerful way to express gratitude? It may not be what you think. During our interview, Wendy, a Chief Culture Officer of a startup, shared with me a powerful way to show gratitude, that makes people light up and creates deeper connections.

Click to read https://starleadership.com/wendy-walks-her-talk/

How do you feel about change?

I love change! I find it difficult and am also fascinated by it. I'm a transformation groupie; my career and life are built on change.

This month's book was recommended by a master coach, who said it was the key to helping their clients make meaningful changes that lead to sustainable transformations.

By the end of this session, you will have bite-size practical tips and techniques to help you succeed at change (unlike the 95% that fail at it).

BOOK: Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success.
DATE: Friday, September 15, at noon ET.

The more grateful you are, the more self-aware you become. To build your situational leadership self-awareness, try using the Five W’s (who, what, where, when, why) to build your situational leadership self-awareness. The Five W's is a tool I sometimes use at the start of a coaching engagement or workshop.

When you can answer your five W’s (who, what, why, when, where), it creates your unique leadership framework; this framework will guide and help you chart your course forward.

Forward can be towards a clear endpoint or baby steps when there is a lot of complexity and uncertainty.

Gaining clarity on your five W’s helps you determine if you want to act as a leader in a situation, a follower, or a runaway! It’s a holistic approach to your journey in life.

Read more on how to use the five W’s https://bit.ly/45lxZbs

Gratitude saves lives and prevents accidents.

OSHA numbers prove it, Don told me. One of the stories he is most proud of is the numbers, going from 14.9 to 2.3. Those numbers reflect people. When he joined a manufacturing company as a senior executive, the OSHA (USA Occupational Safety and Health Administration) incident rate was for every 100 people; there were 15 (14.9) who got hurt; when he left eight years later, they were down to 2.3 people out of a hundred safety incidents. The industry average at the time was about 5; he beat the average.

What has this to do with gratitude? Read bit.ly/gratitude-evangelist

Don is a self-labeled gratitude evangelist. He defines gratitude as appreciation in action. Where did Don’s wisdom come from?

He attributes his wisdom about gratitude to his mom. In addition to telling him to say please and thank you, she said, don’t tell me you love me, show me. Gratitude is love in action and a foundational piece of Don’s leadership style.

Read more on how gratitude has guided Don as a leader throughout his 40-year career https://bit.ly/gratitude-evangelist

This month’s Gem is special, years ago Dr. Duncan found me and interviewed me, and did a write-up in Forbes about Gratitude and Leadership. I am a true believer in his work. It’s a lot of positive and engaging change behaviors to engage the mind, heart, and hope.

Join us Friday, July 21st at noon EST and leave with some leadership gems.

“Real gratitude is about action; words alone can be hollow.”, sums up my interview with Craig, Head of Strategic Planning at a financial firm. Craig shared his views on gratitude at work and discussed his gratitude challenges.

Another key benefit of gratitude that Craig talks about is trust. Showing gratitude builds trust. Trust builds effective and productive teams.

Read Craig’s story to see how he builds trust at work and what he says about gratitude.

https://starleadership.com/gratitude-do-it/

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Join me live, TOMORROW 6/16 at NOON EST

The topic is Fixing Feedback, based on the book by Georgia Murch.

Here are some sneak preview gems from Fixing Feedback:
· If you don't have examples, don't have the conversation
· I'm now a lover of taking ownership
· People know when a tough conversation is about to be had. They can smell it
· A conversation should be like a tennis rally - back and forth, back and forth

Leaders Gems help you get the latest and classic leadership models, tips fast, and how to apply them now to you and your situations.

You may find a gem that transforms your leadership style or solves a big challenge you are working on now.
Gems have the power to change your job, career, or life. It helps you stay relevant and current.

Go to https://bit.ly/GemsSignUp to join us live and find out about the great bonuses you get for signing up!

Monthly Leadership Gems. Are you ready to find your Gems and join us?

https://leadingwithgratitude.net/monthly-leadership-gems/

This month's topic is Extreme Ownership, How the U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.

Life and death situations create and validate leadership principles. For example, U.S. Navy Seals Jocko and Leif recount their stories, extract a principle, and apply it to business.

The principles are:

Extreme Ownership
No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders (my favorite)
Believe
Check the Ego
Cover and Move
Simple (so true)
Prioritize and Execute (as a project manager, this seemed obvious)
Decentralize Command
Plan (Duh)
Leading Up and Down the Chain of Command
Decisiveness amid Uncertainty
Disciple equal Freedom (so true)

Please join Star to hear and discuss live each principle and how it might work for you.

We use an interactive tool for each GEMS session.

Leaders Gems help you get the latest and classic leadership models, tips fast, and how to apply them now to you and your situations.

You may find a gem that transforms your leadership style or solves a big challenge you are working on now. Gems have the power to change your job, career, or life.

It helps you stay relevant and current.

July-December's topic: Change

Included are newly published books that address AI and leadership, Neuroscience, Practical approaches, and a classic, Marshall Goldsmith's: What Got You Here, Won't get you there. I am sure you will find a GEM in these sessions.

Spend one hour with us (instead of 8-15 hours reading), get the gems, and start customizing and applying them to you!

If you can't make it, there is a recording after.

Here are the bonuses if you join for even just one month:
Leadership
· ◦Doing and Being Worksheet
· ◦Communication Analysis Worksheet
· ◦Branding workbook, five steps
Gratitude
· ◦Developing a corporate culture of gratitude paper
· ◦Assessment and templates to create a gratitude practice
· ◦12 Ideas to create your Gratitude Practice
· ◦Leadership Gratitude Journal
Added value features
· ◦Access to the Interactive Content Board/Tool
· Star's Gem Notes
· Pre- and Post questions
The cost: One month ($19.99), Prepay for a year ($199), or Subscribe ($19.99/month)

Practice makes better.

Results from a recent survey I sent out show that the majority of people practice gratitude for an hour or less each day. Even a few minutes a day make a difference.

Check out my latest blog post to see how, how long, and the impact of gratitude from the gratitude survey.

https://starleadership.com/gratitude-challenge-must-practice/

Practicing gratitude works best if you customize it. Check out my blog post to see some of the ways the survey participants practice.

If people only knew how much gratitude could help and benefit them, they would do more, said one person interviewed. The scientific and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming for practicing gratitude. The stronger the gratitude foundation, the more benefits.

Practicing is key to a strong foundation of gratitude.

How do you practice gratitude?

https://starleadership.com/gratitude-challenge-must-practice/

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is the topic of the April Monthly Leadership Gems meeting. This book has been transformational for many leaders I’ve worked with.

Appreciation is one of the commitments. The Four Keys to Mastering the Art of Appreciation is an example of the resources on the Conscious Leadership Group site. A whole website dedicated to the book's concepts and full of free downloads and gems.

https://conscious.is/video/the-four-keys-to-mastering-the-art-of-appreciation

https://leadingwithgratitude.net/monthly-leadership-gems/

100% of everyone I surveyed agreed that gratitude belonged in the workplace. Looking at these benefits, it’s easy to see why. It may seem obvious. The benefits are hard to quantify because the benefits fall into so many categories. That is why I call gratitude foundational.

All other skills and behaviors work better if built on gratitude.

https://starleadership.com/gratitude-challenge-must-practice/

The scientific and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming for practicing gratitude.

To see how others practice here are the survey results, I did from a few years ago.

https://starleadership.com/gratitude-challenge-must-practice/

I regularly change my gratitude practice. I am a fan of morning journaling using pen and paper. I’ve been doing this for over twenty years.

The stronger the gratitude muscle the more benefits. How often and how do you practice?

Want to boost your ? Click here for your FREE copy of the bestseller Change-friendly Leadership How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance, by Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan

https://bit.ly/3z1wxwH

If nothing ever changed, there would never be butterflies. It is brilliant, simple, and doable. And practical.

Change is the theme for the rest of the Monthly Leadership Gems series. We will be doing this book in the latter half of the year, stay tuned.

Looking for a fast way to advance your leadership skills and insights without reading all the leadership books? Star reads and shares the Gems she and others have found that may be the insight that leads to transformation for you. Join us for April’s Leadership Gem meeting on Friday 21st, April at Noon, EST.

April’s topic is based on the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership book. This is about leadership “above” and “below” the line. The 15 commitments when applied and practiced keep leaders above the line, open, curious, and committed to learning.

This book has been a game changer for many of Star’s clients.

“This is not a …new age, touchy-feely leadership experimentation. It is hard-edged, competitive, no-nonsense, bottom-lined focused.”
From the book.

I hope you can join us. This is free to current coaching clients of Star Leadership.

https://leadingwithgratitude.net/monthly-leadership-gems/

Google ‘how to start practicing gratitude’ and you will get approx. 83,300,000 results! Where do you start?!

I have found the site Grateful Living a wonderful resource to begin with! From their about page;

“Grateful Living is a global nonprofit organization offering online and community-based educational programs and practices. Our offerings guide a commitment to the practice of Grateful Living and catalyze the transformative power of personal and societal responsibility.

Grateful Living is a U.S.-based, global nonprofit organization serving a growing movement of individuals and communities who want to engage with life more gratefully.

Through a wide range of offerings, our mission includes supporting people to see the wonder and opportunity in every moment and to act boldly with love, generosity, and respect towards ourselves, one another, and the Earth. Our commitment is for the gifts of Grateful Living to be available to people from all walks of life, and we strive to keep all that we do welcoming, inclusive, and accessible to diverse communities.

We believe in the exponential impact of Grateful Living, so we create opportunities for people to gather and learn together, both online and in person whenever possible. The world needs gratefulness now more than ever—and we are here to support the groundswell.”

Check it out! https://grateful.org

Welcome to Grateful Living Welcome to our online sanctuary where you can nourish and deepen your gratitude awareness. Join us to discover daily practices.

Last month's Leadership Gems book was Grit. Read the full review here or buy the book here;

https://starleadership.com/book-review-grit-passion-and-perseverance-long-term-success/

If you don’t want to read the books, join GEMS. I read (not you) and share a summary and how you can apply it right away. Upcoming books are on Emotional Intelligence, Extreme Leadership, and the 15 Commitments of Leadership. Each monthly leadership gem meeting was insightful with lightbulb moments throughout.

Entitlement is a choice. So is Gratitude. Read Seth’s blog to learn more.

https://seths.blog/2017/01/entitlement-is-a-choice/

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