Pat Garcia-Gonzalez, Chief Executive Officer at The Max Foundation, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“On Giving Thanks in 2025. What are you grateful for?
For me, Thanksgiving is a time for reflection. What am I grateful for? The question leads to many other questions and inevitably lands on asking myself if this was a ‘good year’. The first word that comes to mind is ‘challenging’; it was a challenging year. Challenging is an easy answer, like saying something is ‘boring’. It means whatever you want it to mean. I quickly reject this thought and try and dig deeper.
Objectively, it was a great year, and I have so much to be grateful for: my sons, and walking alongside them as they forge their own paths; I still have my mother with whom I can speak weekly; I am healthy and more or less can continue to run the way I like every morning.
I have a meaningful job; let’s face it, I have a great job. I have the opportunity to positively impact the lives of many people, and I was lucky enough to once again meet some of them in person this year and receive their profound love. I embarked in a personal project to have more sunshine in my life and here I am overwhelmed by uncontrollable sunshine this morning as I write this.
So why would I think it was challenging?
Perhaps a better word is disorienting, more disorienting than challenging, and more disorienting than usual. I think what is unique about this year is the sheer speed at which the world around us is changing. Things are always changing; I am not worried about that. But it is the speed and breath of the changes, not only from a geopolitical perspective but also from a technology perspective, that gives us an uneasy feeling. Like we are in the middle of a tornado coming at us from multiple directions. What seems challenging is to constantly having to orient ourselves in order to move forward.
Seems like this is the state of things and it doesn’t feel like the pattern is changing for a while. So at this time, I am going back to basics: all I can ask myself is to try as hard as I can to make the right decisions, be as thoughtful as I can, work as hard as I can, and trust that we will be ok because so far, we have always figured it out.
Today I am grateful for you. What are you grateful for?”
Pat Garcia-Gonzalez/LinkedIn
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