{"id":4950,"date":"2024-11-19T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/be-grateful-for-what-you-have-rather-than-focus-on-what-you-dont\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:34","slug":"be-grateful-for-what-you-have-rather-than-focus-on-what-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/be-grateful-for-what-you-have-rather-than-focus-on-what-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7264653795098259457>Be grateful for what you have, rather than focus on what you don&#8217;t.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be grateful for what you have, rather than focus on what you don&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, I went on a camping trip with my son, organized by other parents at his school. I think of myself as a novice camper &#8211; I have my own tent and equipment, but only go camping once every few years, generally tagging along with somebody else who is more experienced. <\/p>\n<p>Much to my surprise, I was the most experienced camper when I arrived. Several people had never set up their tents before, and I helped them out. Many didn&#8217;t bring a headlamp, so I lent out spares I had from a previous trip, and shared a couple camp lanterns to provide light for those that needed it. I organized a couple hikes during the weekend, and we had a great time!<\/p>\n<p>It changed my perspective on my own experience. I&#8217;ve done a couple week-long bikepacking trips. I&#8217;ve done a couple backpacking trips. I&#8217;ve done many weekend camping trips. I think of myself as a novice, but that&#8217;s only because I compare myself to people that go out on week-long backpacking trips every year. Compared to most average people, I&#8217;m an expert camper. <\/p>\n<p>As we approach Thanksgiving, I&#8217;ve been thinking about gratitude. We so often take for granted what we already have, and forget to appreciate it. We think of what we don&#8217;t have, rather than appreciate what we do have. My first instinct last weekend was to think of all the camping experience I didn&#8217;t have, rather than all the experience I did have to share. <\/p>\n<p>How could you invert your thinking to appreciate what you already have? Rather than cling to a scarcity mindset of &#8220;not enough&#8221;, what could you share from a mindset of abundance, as I did on the camping trip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be grateful for what you have, rather than focus on what you don&#8217;t. Over the weekend, I went on a camping trip with my son, organized by other parents at his school. I think of myself as a novice camper &#8211; I have my own tent and equipment, but only go camping once every few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}