I'm Thankful For

Today I'm thankful for my family - my beautiful daughter and my wonderful husband.  I'm thankful for my brother and all he does while he is living here with us.  I'm so grateful for skype and facetime and cell phones that let us talk to family who is far away today.  I'm also thankful for good books and for learning from our weaknesses.  I was reading "Entreleadership" by Dave Ramsey last night in chapter 11 called "People Matter Most" and it was talking about how gossip can destroy a company and that in their company if people have a problem they are only allowed to talk to someone who can do something about it - not just talk bad to someone who can't help them with their problem.  I realized that so often we do that without even thinking and that it's not helpful but rather straight up hurtful.  I thought that if someone were mad at me, I would want someone to come to me and we could fix the problem - the Golden Rule.  I decided that I would either choose to let the issue go - or handle it how I would like it to be handled if someone were mad at me.  So - thank yo Dave Ramsey, for making me realize my imperfections and give me ways to fix them.  I always knew that, but sometimes I forget to apply those principles.  I don't gossip very often, but sometimes I do complain and am rather negative and it needs to stop.  I'm always grateful for a reminder.

Thanks
-Jessica