My wife and I genuinely like each other.

So, obviously, our relationship is perfect and there are never any tense or complicated moments between us.

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Like any couple, we overreact and underreact and misunderstand and miss-speak and forget we are on the same team.

But we figured something out that makes being consistently copacetic more likely: everything just works better between us when we thank each other for the small things.

Thank you for taking the trash out…Thank you for making the bed…Thank you for making dinner…Thank you for picking up popcorn from the movie theater on your way home…

Thank you is disproportionately powerful. It costs nearly nothing to deploy, but earns miles of goodwill.

The thing about “thank you” is that the subject of the gratitude doesn’t need to be grandiose for it to matter, your expression just has to be genuine.

That’s it.

Sharing genuine gratitude for any number of silly things with the people you lead is the single easiest way to deepen connection, build trust, and help them feel valued.

TRY THIS: Say THANK YOU to as many people as you can this week. Don’t pander or flatter, just share as much genuine gratitude as you possibly can and see what happens.
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