How do you express your gratitude?

SINCERITY

Sincerity must underpin all expressions of gratitude and thanks. Gratitude to be genuine, must be from the heart. It must be offered sincerely, unrequitedly and should also come from the person offering the things rather than it being suggested to that person by a third party.

Expressions of “second-hand gratitude“ mean that the person offering the thanks is doing it on behalf of somebody else and therefore it is rather indirect.

As a school principal and throughout the whole of my life, working and otherwise, I have believed in and practised showing gratitude and thanks to others.

Being grateful and thanking people is important in a world where we are increasingly prepared to criticise and condemn and ever slower to appreciate and say thank you for things that have been well done. In other words, there seems to be no trouble in pummelling people with brickbats, but bouquets are given far more infrequently.

Offering a thank you and showing gratitude is something I have believed in and practised.

Over the years my thank you‘s and expressions of gratitude have been oral, in writing, recorded through media stories, posted as Appreciations on LinkedIn and my blog, offered at school assemblies and other forms like Toastmasters and so on.

Expressing gratitude and saying thank you it’s a quality I cherish to this day. Being retired it may be more often in the form of oral affirmation of effort or through myBlog.

Appreciation and gratitude to all people with her mother satiated from a very young age to that of a very old man has been a very important part of my life because it uplifts others and makes me feel good.