{"id":1544,"date":"2010-01-26T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2011-09-29T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T21:12:53","slug":"on-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"On Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would it be too much to say that all growth emerges from appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion? You or I take a class, for exam\u00adple, in \u201cmusic appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion.\u201d We find our\u00adselves becom\u00ading sen\u00adsi\u00adtive in new ways to the aes\u00adthet\u00adic val\u00adue of music. Or we rec\u00adog\u00adnize one day what a par\u00adent or men\u00adtor did for us and we feel appre\u00adcia\u00adtive<\/em> \u2014 grate\u00adful for their gifts, some\u00adtimes very un<\/em>appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded at the time. I try my hand at cook\u00ading and soon have a new under\u00adstand\u00ading of what it takes to learn to cook well, to become more than a cook, but a chef who can bring togeth\u00ader unique and arrest\u00ading com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtions of ingre\u00addi\u00adents that sur\u00adprise with their pure deli\u00adcious\u00adness. Per\u00adhaps this notion of appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion answers a ques\u00adtion that all self-reflec\u00adtive peo\u00adple (and hope\u00adful\u00adly all lead\u00aders) ask them\u00adselves: how do<\/em> I grow? By what method do I become more of who I am meant to be? As soon as we appre\u00adci\u00adate, we take some\u00adthing into our\u00adselves and begin to let it trans\u00adform us, our under\u00adstand\u00adings and ulti\u00admate\u00adly how we behave. In turn this influ\u00adences the essence of all our relationships.<\/p>\n

Hav\u00ading this aware\u00adness that growth comes from appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion, sud\u00adden\u00adly there is so much<\/em> to appre\u00adci\u00adate: new expe\u00adri\u00adences, per\u00adspec\u00adtives, insights, peo\u00adple, events, his\u00adto\u00adry. I even notice the art\u00adful flight of the crow out\u00adside my win\u00addow. I see the calm\u00adness of the lake\u2019s waters behind the crow, and beyond that I notice the feat of cre\u00adat\u00ading the city on the oth\u00ader side of the lake. If I throw open the doors and win\u00addows of this lit\u00adtle cab\u00adin of being called the self, I am flood\u00aded by a uni\u00adverse that begs for appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion. I see into both the day and the night, good times and poor ones, appre\u00adci\u00adate what joy brings, and what sad\u00adness and suf\u00adfer\u00ading can bring as well. I become attuned to the vibra\u00adtions of my envi\u00adron\u00adment: a crowd\u00aded store, a tense room of exec\u00adu\u00adtives, the sense of relief once a hard\u00adship is over. Sud\u00adden\u00adly my eye\u00adsight, my hear\u00ading are bet\u00adter, as if I\u2019ve trans\u00adformed to an entire\u00adly new kind of cat.<\/p>\n

And among all the things I might appre\u00adci\u00adate, one comes for\u00adward that holds a spe\u00adcial key, and that is self<\/em>-appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion. Not ego\u00adtism or over\u00adween\u00ading pride, but sure\u00adly more than just self-accep\u00adtance, bow\u00ading to a small por\u00adtion<\/em> of life, a fate<\/em>. Self-appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion is foun\u00adda\u00adtion\u00adal, my fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal belief in and capac\u00adi\u00adty to trust my own judg\u00adments, to fol\u00adlow the threads that gen\u00aduine\u00adly and unique\u00adly belong to me, with\u00adout denials and with\u00adout decep\u00adtions. To appre\u00adci\u00adate every\u00adthing I am, all the suc\u00adcess\u00ades and fail\u00adures, good moments and bad ones, great rela\u00adtion\u00adships and ones that need work, all those tal\u00adents and all those oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties, the whole kit and caboo\u00addle. With such a key you or I might unlock the world!<\/p>\n

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Chlo\u00c3\u00a9<\/h6>\n

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Technorati Tags: Radiance<\/a>, Reflective Leadership. Link to blog posting<\/a>. Link to Oestreich Associates website<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would it be too much to say that all growth emerges from appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion? You or I take a class, for exam\u00adple, in \u201cmusic appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion.\u201d We find our\u00adselves becom\u00ading sen\u00adsi\u00adtive in new ways to the aes\u00adthet\u00adic val\u00adue of music. Or we rec\u00adog\u00adnize one day what a par\u00adent or men\u00adtor did for us and we feel appre\u00adcia\u00adtive\u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading On Appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radiance","category-reflective-leadership","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}