I’m feeling Grateful

Greetings all and happy Thanksgiving week! I don’t know about you, but as the year winds down I’m feeling a little weary. Looking forward to rejuvenation that comes with family and friend time. I hope you are, too.

Which gets me to my word for the week: gratitude. I believe gratitude is a choice, a posture that reflects your approach to life. I choose gratitude. And there’s so much to be grateful for. Just yesterday morning I started the day as a guest of Allison Rempel Brown, from the Science Museum of Minnesota, as we listened to Senator Klobuchar at her Inspiring Women’s Power Breakfast. I ended the day with J Marie Figer, from Nemer Fieger, a woman I don’t know well yet, but who impresses me with her kindness and generosity. Between those two people I spent the day meeting with my team leaders talking about and planning for all the work we do on your behalf.

In all these exchanges, I felt gratitude. Deeply. I want you to know that your amazing Chamber team – we are 20 people strong now! – are so very committed to doing great work for you. I’m grateful for their excellence, dedication, and integrity. Always ensuring we do good work for the right reasons. We also tell one another the truth, we wrestle when we don’t agree, we laugh a lot, we are better because of it all. It takes a lot to deliver on our commitments to you, our members. And I am so honored to serve a team like ours, who does their work so well.

I’m also grateful for YOU, who encourage and challenge and partner and support. You show up, and that makes all the difference.

See you in the trenches.

B