A grateful heart

“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance,
and does not object to sharing.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As we celebrate this week of Thanksgiving in the U.S., we hope you are able to spend precious time with those you love. Today, we’re looking inward as we take stock of the blessings in our lives and everything for which we are grateful.

It was 400 years ago, in 1621, that the first Thanksgiving took place when the Plymouth colonists and a local tribe shared an autumn harvest feast after months of hardship, death, illness, and malnutrition gave way to self-sufficiency made possible by an Indian interpreter, Squanto, who helped the pilgrims learn how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish, and avoid poisonous plants.

Today, that holiday has morphed somewhat as we all gain a more global perspective and a deeper awareness of the many sides to history, but at its heart Thanksgiving is still all about gratitude.

At Advantage Performance Group, we’re especially grateful for the opportunities we have had to continue to help develop or facilitate learning initiatives for organizations around the world despite the onset of a pandemic that brought so much of our work to a screeching halt until the advent of virtual work became mainstream.

For us, the decision to pivot and focus on what we and our thought leader partners could do to shed some light  and foster learning proved to be one of our best. Continuing those efforts this year, we’re grateful for the ongoing collaborative efforts and great generosity of our thought leader partners who never hesitate when we ask them to help us share key learning and free resources.

As an organization made up of independent partners working remotely from across the U.S. and beyond, we’ve grown closer and continue to enjoy our ongoing weekly collaboration calls via Zoom.

We’re grateful for you, our clients and visitors who open these emails, participate in our events, and share your perspectives. Since the onset of the pandemic, we’ve been able to reach thousands of people, including more than 1,000 of you who open and read this newsletter every week.

We recognize that gratitude is the foundation for abundance. A spirit of abundance is at the heart of everything we do and our North Star in difficult times.

May you celebrate the abundance in your life this week, and know that we count you among our blessings. Thank you for your dedication to helping others learn, become their best, and achieve more than they thought possible.

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