To boil it down, I will tell you that it is an exercise in being grateful. It is a 21-day challenge in which you express gratitude for different things each day.
Challenge #1 - Sign the contract and make the commitment to take note and give thanks for the next 21 days. Express why you accepted this challenge and what you hope to achieve from it.
Um... there is no actual contract, so you will just have to take my word as my signature.
Things have been feeling pretty rough lately. I have a rude and ungrateful boss who sees the world through the lens of negativity. He has been rubbing off on me. I was really excited when I took this job 10 months ago because it is exactly what I wanted to do. I love my clients. I love my office. I love the location. I love the opportunities I have experienced. I love the art director and publicist (who leaves us tomorrow). But I do not love my boss. I don't even remotely like him as a person and have said that if I had facebooked him first, I would have never taken the job!
Recently, on a business trip, I was fortunate enough to meet Jamie and Adam from MythBusters. They admitted that they weren't the best friends that they seem to be on TV. and then Jamie said something that completely stuck me:
You can work with someone that you don't really like as long as you respect them.
And the more I thought about that statement, the more I realized that he was right. I have worked with people before who I didn't like but from whom I knew I could learn a lot. They had my respect. My current boss does not have my respect - for a host of reasons too long to bore you with. I have one co-worker who I do not respect, but who my boss seems to think very highly of.
I have been upset for days over my situation here. But today, my soon-to-be-ex-publicist gave me a ray of hope when she told me that her friend (who I have never met and who holds a decently high title in his company) would personally contact his company's HR department on my behalf to recommend me for a job. It just proves that there is still some good in the world.
So today, I choose to be grateful.
For the next 21 days and that brings us to Thanksgiving... I'm just gonna leave that open for interpretation.
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