I get it. It is hard – scratch that – it is impossible to love our businesses all the time. That dream you had for your business may have turned into a life sucking nightmare. You may even have a hatred for your business right now. I get that too. But, the problem is that the more you dislike your business, the more it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Things spiral down. You need to do an attitude adjustment, as it were. You need to find gratefulness.

The success of your business starts and ends with your mindset. You need to be grateful for where you are, and what you have learned, in order to drive your business forward.

So how do you develop an attitude of gratitude? You find gratitude by looking back, not forward. Of the path your business has traveled already, what are the things that moved you forward? What are the things you know now that you didn’t know then? What have you discovered about yourself?

The future is not guaranteed. Nor is happiness. But the past, will always be there. And you can always find gratitude in it.  That is something to be grateful for.