4 reasons to be grateful

Compass Family,

As much as possible, I like to focus on the positives in my life rather than dwell on the difficulties. It’s one of the ways that I generate and sustain the energy I need to do everything I want to do every day and every week and every year. 

If you’re struggling to see the bright side, here are four things to appreciate that I guarantee will be true for every person who’s reading this email. You can be grateful for…

1. The ways in which the struggles and challenges you’ve faced have shaped you into the person you are and made you stronger
2. Every bit of luck, circumstance and privilege that you’ve benefited from in your life that enabled you to learn and grow
3. Living now rather than any other time, when violence, poverty, disease and injustice were even worse than they are today and when so many marvels of science and progress, however unequally distributed, didn’t even exist yet
4. The miraculous, improbable, impossible blessing that is human existence — the result of billions of years of evolution

And don’t stop there. Gratefulness is like love: the more you give, the more you get. The more gratitude you feel in a day, the more you’ll have in your life to be grateful for.

This year, I’ve been more appreciative than ever before of the opportunity I have to work alongside each of you to help everyone find their place in the world and to create a company together in which each of us can truly belong.

I hope you have a fantastic week.

Best,

Robert