Gratitude as a Game-Changer: Transforming Relationships and Leadership with Glori Winders

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The first thing is just to write down those 5 things that I'm thankful for

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and think about my day yesterday and think about what's good. Five things that have

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just, thank you, lord. Even if it is just for this wonderful cup of coffee

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my husband made to me this morning that smells so wonderful and is warming me

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up.

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Hello there. Welcome to seek, go, create. Tim Winders here. We've got a special guest,

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my wife, Glory. And something that we've always

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wanted to do was just invite someone

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in on Just our talks that we have in the morning over

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coffee. And so that's what we wanted to do with this episode,

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this is releasing the week of Thanksgiving, we're gonna be talking gratitude. We're gonna

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be talking about how gratitude and thankfulness fits

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into even leadership and management, so we're gonna be just discussing some of

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those things as What stimulated this conversation,

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but we are sitting here duplicating our

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coffee situation. But you know what? We got these microphones, and

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we got these cameras, and, yeah, we're gonna try our

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best. But, anyway hey, Gloria. How are you doing? Sound good. This

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this does not feel like our morning coffee, though.

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I got cameras everywhere. We we're wearing more clothes than we typically do.

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Yeah. In my comfy been jammies. I'm in my I'm in my T shirt and

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all, but you've got your usually, your comfy jammies sweatshirt and all that.

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Anyway, been We just recently relocated. This is for those of

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you listening to this the week it comes out, this is

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Thanksgiving week, And and this is a

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time to be thankful. We recently relocated. Why don't you tell us about

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that? After spending a brief period of time with grandchildren, which is

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always the most wonderful thing. We headed towards warmth because

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there was snow the last day we were in Colorado, and snow and

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RVs are not the greatest things that mix together. We are now outside of

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Zion National Park. Absolutely beautiful here. And

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fall is my favorite time of year and I'm actually getting 2 falls this year

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because I got 1 fall in Rapid City with the leaves changing and all of

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that. And then when we got here, all the leaves were nice and

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green. And as we have been here this week, they are starting to change because

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of the cooler weather at night, and we're getting to experience fall

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again. So I love it. This is actually your 3rd fall, not to correct

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you. Oh, where, did I get it in Colorado? We had a nice Fall,

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great weather in October in Colorado Springs

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True. With our grandkids. Falls. Woo hoo. Three

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falls. So the beauty of living in an RV, if you

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can handle it and you could plan it out well,

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You can go where the weather is awesome. That's one of the reasons

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we chose this lifestyle. We haven't always been good at it. No. Or maybe if

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you're an endless summer type of person, you could just

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chase that. That would be more you. Endless summer, I like a little

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crispy. I am getting to where I

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like the warmer weather. Not hot. We're from the

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south. Not muggy. But I like the warmer weather. You like the

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cooler weather. But if it's gonna be cold, it needs to be snowing.

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No none of this cold with no snow. That no. So

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we are enjoying, I think, today is a nice sunny day. You might see the

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sun coming in. It's not early in the morning when we'd typically be

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having our coffee. It's Midafternoon or early afternoon,

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and, we're duplicating our coffee time is what we're trying to do.

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Trying to. Yeah. Except. Trying to be chill and relaxed

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hits water. Everybody's just going, man, they've got no

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integrity here. They're faking. They are faking

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everything. The the thing we're not faking is this is us,

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and this is Yeah. This is me dressed the way I dress

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99 percent of the time, you look incredible like you

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always look. So a few big things that we are thankful for, let's talk

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about gratitude and thankfulness, and

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I have just celebrated just not long ago, 35 years of being married to

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you. Yes. And then right after that,

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celebrated my 60th birthday shortly after

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that. Yeah. I'm feeling pretty good, I think. Looking good

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too. Did I tell you that I was able to do my 60 push ups

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in about 60 seconds ish all in

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1 and all of that? So I You're good. I

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feel sorta good about myself, which is

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good because a few months ago, I wasn't sure if I'd do another

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push up again. I had an injury

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that was a pickleball injury, and I need a better story than

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that. But Got some new shoes. Got some new

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shoes, went out to play. It was on Labor Day weekend and all, in

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fact, and I tripped,

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fell, and Landed on your wrist. I'm thankful

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I didn't break it. Yep. I did go to an actual doctor. I can't

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remember when I've been a doctor. Went to a doctor, they x rayed it and

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said, not broken. I said, okay. Let me leave. I'm out of here.

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And my wife is very well versed in homeopathy

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and natural stuff, and she nursed me

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back and put essential oils, all kinds of great stuff in

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all that. So not take 1 single over the counter pain

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med. No over the counter or no prescription. They wanted to

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give all types of stuff. And we're handled it all with

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homeopathy and essential oils and resting it, of

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course. But Yeah. And if you need that stuff, that's great. 60. Yeah. If you

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need that stuff, that's great, but, we don't like taking stuff. And you know what?

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Prefer not to. Yeah. That's one thing I'm thankful for.

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I'm thankful that you, for almost all of our

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married life, you've attempted to us to eat

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pretty well and, as be as healthy as

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we can and have not had to do a lot of doctors

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and Things like that. So let's talk

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Thanksgiving and the the fall season. This is your prime time. Right?

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No. I love it. Pumpkins and

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leaves and the reds and the golds and the oranges

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and crisp weather. And, like, the other night, we got to,

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sit out with our son by the fire. One thing when we

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relocated, we we meet up with our son who also lives in

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an RV and travels. And so fall or winter is when we

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meet up with him, and and it was just beautiful weather the other night. And

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I just made a little charcuterie board for us, and we all sat out by

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the fire and just enjoyed some great conversation and the fire and the

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crispy weather. I love it. Love it. Love it.

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Yeah. It's nice having

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adult children. Isn't it? It is. It is. Although,

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love our grandbabies. Love that. But it is nice

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having adult children where you can have adult conversations,

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asked them questions and generally wanna know things that they've learned that you

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wanna share. Our son has a very large Instagram

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channeled. So it's really cool to be able to ask him questions because he is

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extremely knowledgeable in that, and that's something we can learn from

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him. Our daughter is a fabulous sourdough baker.

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I got questions. She's the one I can ask because she has studied

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it and and Gardner as well. She gives me that information. So it

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is cool to be able to learn from your kids. Yeah. But let's go ahead

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and and clear up some things here. There's this

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myth That younger generations are

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more technically savvy than,

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let's call, our generation Sure, generation. We're both on the

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tail end of the baby boomer generation.

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However, who do they call when it's When it's tech support stuff. Tech

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support person in the family. Call glory. Yes. They all call

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glory. And in fact, I was thinking it was Probably a little

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less than a year ago because we were here in this location,

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you and I started dabbling with AI. Oh, yeah.

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Moved. We jumped on chat GPT, and we're plugging in some things and

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writing some things, which we are way down that rabbit hole right now. You're doing

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Designs and graphics, and I'm doing a lot of stuff with

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the podcast and all that we're doing here. We're using a lot of AI.

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We are real people here. This is not deep fake.

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Yeah. Sweatpants. Was, we would make sure it looked even better.

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Sweatpants on from the waist down. Shown up here is actual

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human flesh, not anything, not sentient or anything like

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that. But We got into the AI, and our

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son sitting over here, we said, you ought to check it out. He goes, I

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don't want to. He No. Yeah. Punched in a few things. And

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Wow. Okay. It is such a a great

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research assistant. It saves me so much time

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just to ask questions and let it go

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look for some answers for me. I love that. It's like having an

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assistant that can go do some of that stuff for me. It that's another thing

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I'm thankful for. Moved. Changed

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my mindset about a lot of business Yeah. About content

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creation, about social media. Helped to give you a really good

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example of something that just helped me with is I was having to

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write a fairly emotionally charged

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email on some things that I was trying to do

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on behalf of my mom. And and because it was my mom,

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I I my emotions were going and out. And so I was

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looking at the email going, I'm not sure if this is the

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way this needs to be presented. Was it a strongly worded email? Strongly worded

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email. And so I decided, let me just copy and paste it

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into chat and ask it to

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improve my email. And it did such it

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took all the emotion out of it, and it just presented the facts the way

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they needed to be presented. And it was a much better

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emailed just because I did that. Whereas if I had sent what I was gonna

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send, there would have been a lot of underlying emotion there that

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Yeah. Probably might not have been received well or understood,

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and it really needed to be more of a professional email. So that was a

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great way to use that tool. Yeah.

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And I like because it takes my a lot of

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people talk about the bias and things that it has, and I'm sure that it

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does because it's built in, it's something that they have built in

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a lot of the information that is used for the modeling. However,

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I sometimes look at my stuff and I

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go, that's really awesome, when it's good

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to maybe run it through something else, And I'm okay if it's machine learning and

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things like that, and it gives me the thoughts on what is awesome

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when I thought this was awesome, I thought a was awesome, it said b was.

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I'm going, you know what? I'm going with b because

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I look at it and, again, we're talking thankful here. We weren't planning on

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doing this, but I'm thankful for this. I look at it as having a,

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brainstorming partner and a writing assistant. You you used it as

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a writing assistant. Yeah. Been done. And I'll I will sit down

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with thoughts and topics and even some of the things.

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I had some notes even from what we were gonna talk about here. We're we've

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gotten to none of them, By the way. Maybe we should take a look at

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them. Maybe we should see what AI says. Maybe we should

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This would be like our morning coffee. This is all

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been about. And I'm and I'm looking out the window here and big

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truck that's been near us doing some type of

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Cloud construction work has just pulled out here. So So this could be short. It

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might be part of the podcast here, but but talk about

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let's talk briefly about and then I want us go into

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stewardship and then how some of this spills into

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leadership and how we've been discussing recently how people that manage

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other people. Some of these concepts are important, and then also even

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parenting, how it fits into parenting, but talk a little

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bit about, And it's not even really a rhythm because we

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aren't dogmatic about what we do in the morning. I'm a little bit

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more dogmatic than you are, But not as much as I used to

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be. I'll get up and work, do my push ups and my stuff and all

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that, but I've cut out news. Mhmm. I don't read news anymore. In the month

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of October, I got rid of news. I'm very thankful for that. My mind is

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so much clearer and creative. I'm several years into that, so

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he finally followed suit on that one. And it it really does It

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does. Lessen the burden on your heart when you are

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not listening to all the stuff.

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Makes me less cynical. Yeah. I have a tendency to

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lean towards heavy cynic, heavy sarcasm.

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And I think it impacts how you look at other people, not just

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groups of people because I think the media is designed to separate people

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into groups, been. But individuals, you'll start looking at individuals, and if

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you think or perceive that they are part of one of those groups, then

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you will think about them like you think about that group. Mhmm.

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And I don't think that's the kingdom of god. I don't think that

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is the way we're supposed to be thinking Right. From reading scriptures.

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But So our rhythm Mhmm. Is

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that we we get up, y'all are right now, for those that are

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watching this on video, on YouTube, or any of the clips, This

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is our living space in Theo, our our RV. We

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wanted to sit on the sofa, but we sank sank down in it, so we

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had to sit at the table here, and we had to have microphones, all this

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kind of stuff. So, we don't have microphones in the mornings. We have

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just coffee and sometimes a device, sometimes not,

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often our Bibles in some type form or fashion. And

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we just have conversations, and Sometimes they are really cool,

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and sometimes they are aggravating and annoying.

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Yes. Why are they aggravating and

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annoying? Because my husband loves to play the devil's advocate

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and ask and prod and poke

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and anyway. And my personality is just

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just stopped already. Yeah. I like to ask questions. You do.

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And you're very good at it. It's what you do. I enjoy asking questions. And

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you know what? I actually have spent some time in prayer on this. I think

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God is okay with us asking he is absolutely okay with us asking

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questions. Yes. Yeah. Because we're really trying to get to a place where we have

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a greater understanding. Mhmm. And you and I for years

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now, going back at least 20 plus years,

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have been with scriptural things Asking a lot of

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questions. Mhmm. Gotten us in a little bit of trouble here and there, but

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I don't care. Yeah. Seems like At bible school, they're not

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super excited about that. They don't like to ask questions. Just be

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discipled. Sit down. And you know, in a lot of churches, a lot of religious

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environments are like that, And it's one of the reasons why a lot of people

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are, I believe, in pretty healthy numbers

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leaving religious institutions and organizations

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because People want to be able to think and

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ask questions and just sit back, shut up, and don't

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ask questions is not the answer. That's not what People need to

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guess. Anyway Again, not in our notes. Not in our

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notes. We're going off here. But, I think we're talking about our morning routine. Yes.

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And I, for several years now. Many

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years. Keep a journal and I

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write down 5 things that I am thankful for every morning.

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Now some people like to do it at night. Some people like to do it

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in the morning. I like morning because I feel like it sets the tone for

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my day. Especially if I wake up with my running list

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of all the to dos, I am I'm an executor in the strengths

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thing. When I wake up in the morning, there is a to do list and

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there's a big 0 on the chart. And if I'm gonna win

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the day, then I gotta get move a lot of stuff and check a lot

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of boxes so that I go from a 0 to I got a lot done.

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That's immediately what is on my mind. And

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if I can start though before I check the email

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and before I do all those things, the first thing is just to write

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down those 5 things that I'm thankful for, and think about my day yesterday, and

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think about what's five things that have just thank you, lord. Even if it is

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just for this wonderful cup of coffee my husband made to me this morning that

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smells so wonderful and is warming me up. I make the coffee.

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He does. So even if it is just that, I

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have set some intentions that I'm gonna be grateful for the day

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and have a more positive outlook instead of the things that are

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not going right or the things that I gotta tackle today. It

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just really sets the mood and the tone of the

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day. And then after that, I will drop down

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in the journal and just say, Lord, what do I need to know today? What

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question do you want me to ask? And just try to listen

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for a minute. And sometimes I don't get anything. Sometimes I

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get a lot. And he's you need to know this today. You should ask this

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question. And so that I have had that practice

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going on for several years now. And what's really cool is I have a

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journal that I can go back and look at. And I go, oh, I remember

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that if if I had not written down that I was thankful full for meetings

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so and I might have forgotten that. Or that we went to dinner with so

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and so or that we went to so and so's house or that whatever.

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It's like a little bit of a diary as the blessings

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that are going on in my life, and it's cool to go back and read

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those. And see answered prayer as well. So Do

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do you is it daily? Do you

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skip some days? I try to do it daily, but Right. Like you

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said, not every single day. Some mornings, I do have to get up

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and just I'm behind and I gotta get going, but I try

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to start the day that way. And I try to make it 2,

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not formulaic necessarily, not if I could only come up with

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3. Okay. Fine. Three things for the day.

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And I don't have a certain prayer I've gotta read or a certain mantra I've

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gotta say or a certain script number of scriptures I've gotta read or what. It's

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super duper simple so that

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I can carve out 5 minutes or less to do this

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and not have an excuse because I just didn't have time or, it's

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just, it's too hard to think about that today. I was trying to keep it

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really simple. What's interesting, You and I were talking about this

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earlier, and you were saying it needs to be in the morning, and I went,

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there might be people that need to do it in the evening, maybe people need

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to do it both, maybe people need to do it in the middle of the

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day. I think the key is to find what works

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Yeah. For you, and I

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know my days Are better when I can string

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together multiple days where I'm in that habit.

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Mhmm. We've recently been with grandkids. We've recently been on

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the road some, and sometimes we get out of our rhythm then,

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and I feel a little off. I wish I didn't. I wish I

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didn't feel fell off. And so I know that

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I need to be less

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rigid, but I know I'm better when I do it.

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Like this morning, the word rejoice came to my mind.

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And I just I even wrote there. I said, rejoice in the lord, rejoice in

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the lord always, and then I started off with all these words that were rejoice,

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which you and I discussed, is not totally gratitude

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and thanksgiving, but it's definitely a sibling or closely related.

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Right. Because I think if we are grateful, if we are giving

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thanks, then we are also rejoicing

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caused. We are joyful and happy, and I just started making this list

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of things that I was rejoicing in the weather and where we are

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and what we're doing and the time of year

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and all of those things that we get to do this that I know you're

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so excited about and I appreciate, things like that. So

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Now you've just recently started you're you're doing a lot of cool

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things creating things. We are in

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possibly One of the coolest creative

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times of our lives, and we've been in a lot of times where we've created

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some stuff. But Right now with some of the tools we talked about earlier

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and things that are going on and some ideas that are coming to us,

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we are really getting Fairly creative,

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and you've been doing lots of cool stuff. Why don't you tell us about some

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of the things you're creating, and, there's some things that have

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just been loaded up to Amazon that I want you to talk about that

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will put links in because people that are listening into this may wanna get

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those. Right. Let me take you back a sec. When I went to college.

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I think my mom wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor because in

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her mind That was success. That was success. That was To be a

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lawyer or a doctor. Success In the seventies eighties was lawyer doctor

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I was much more creative person and probably would have been much more suited

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for something like graphic design, but literally had no

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one ever tell me that was even a possibility. Or I could've gone

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to culinary school. No one ever told me that there was didn't

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even know there was a culinary school. I was a little backwoods

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Georgia girl and didn't know that much.

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And so those are probably 2 things that I would have excelled in and

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really enjoyed if I had studied either one of those things.

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Fast forward. And now I'm at a point in life

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where I can pick up some things that I want to do now.

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And one of those is to do some graphic design. And

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so I have started I have an Etsy to shop, and I've

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got t shirts and mugs and ornaments

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and all kinds of little things like that, and then having an absolute

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blast. In fact, yesterday was a day that I was really heads down doing a

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lot of design work. And I felt like

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I was cheating. I felt like this can't really be what I'm doing because I'm

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having so much fun doing this. And it's just,

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yeah, so much fun. I'm enjoying it. But one of the things that I

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also just did, I've had a couple of books on Amazon for,

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what, 20 years 20 years. Cookbooks back to that

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culinary thing. And there are cookbooks for people who have food allergies or food

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restrictions. And so it takes whatever those restrictions are and it

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worked with them to still get you some really good tasting food. So

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those have been up for a while. But I wanted to

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create just some journals that people actually a

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gratitude journal where you could just write down those 5 things in the morning have

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a little bit of a note space to put extra that the Lord wanted might

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wanted to share with you that day. Make it super simple for

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people to develop that habit. And I have,

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just created 10 different designs for women and

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6 designs for men. Different feels and looks and

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what your flavor is. And, I'm in the process of

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getting all those loaded up. So yeah. Been fun.

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The reason I think it's cool, and, you know, as a coach,

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I know when someone hasn't been doing something, They

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will often need a simple and

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easy way to get started Mhmm. Be guided, and

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they are they're nice, But yet they're simple.

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Yeah. And I think for someone who hasn't been in

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a gratitude journaling type

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mode, Wouldn't you agree? It would be a pretty easy

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way to maybe get one of these and get started. It has a nice

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look to it and feel. It's actual physical, so you're actually

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writing on it. Yeah. And is it for a year, an entire

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year? No. I did them Just a shorter period of time. Yeah. I did them

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in 120 day blocked so you've got just a 4 month

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little time capsule of those 4 months. And after you do it for that amount

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of time, you should have developed a habit that if you wanna do it

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in a different journal, fine. Or like I said, I've got 10 different designs. You

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could just get another one in a different design or whatever. But, yeah, it's

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just a 120 day guided, prompting

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you to take a minute and just write down. I I think that's so perfect

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if you're listening in and you're wanting to get started with either some type of

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gratitude or even a journaling habit. Mhmm. So to think I'm

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gonna be doing it for a year, and me doing it for 365 days

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might be a bit overwhelming. It's one of the reasons with even with

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clients that I work with, we do 90 day cycles. 3, 4 months is about

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all that most of our brains can wrap our heads around to

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get going with things, so I I love it. Anything else you wanna say about

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the journals? Because I've seen them, Haven't seen the physical. I've seen

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some of the digital pieces of it, but they are up on Amazon. Probably

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by the time this airs or someone listens, They'll be there, and you'll give

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me a link and and also people can go get those just Great

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gifts. Just in time for the holidays. I've got

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one one that I think is so cute is like that groovy retro

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that's so hot with especially younger and teens.

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And so if you got a teen daughter or teen granddaughter and

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you want to develop that positive attitude, what a

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great thing to give them, plus it looks cool. It's not just

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a daddy looking journal or whatever. Cool and hip is good. Yeah. Cool and hip

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is And then the guy the the ones for men are a little bit more

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adventure and outdoorsy and stuff. And there's one that I was showing that was probably

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my favorite one I designed of all of them. And my son, I was showing

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him last night. He was actually, oh, I like that one. Yeah. So

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I'm excited. It's something fun. And I feel like the Lord

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has given me a mission to be an encourager

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to his body. To everybody, but especially to his

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body. And so if it can be an encouraging

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saying on a T shirt or a mug that's got something very uplifting

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or something like that or something that can help you with a good habit or

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just something to encourage you to make your

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day lighter, to make you smile, or make someone else smile because of what you're

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wearing. My mission right now. I've seen them. They're

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good. Thank you. They're good, and we'll we'll make sure we include some notes, and

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you can keep us updated on that. So let's shift

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just a little bit. Okay. Because one of the catalysts

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for us doing this episode, we were talking about, oh, there's gonna be an episode

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coming out on Thanksgiving, why don't we release it? We were

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talking about kind of stewardship and

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leadership and parenting and

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This mindset fits into it. It's not totally

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what we're talking about here, but it's this attitude

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Of if you are a steward, you have responsibility

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over someone as

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a parent, As a manager, managers or leaders, because I've

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noticed this in leadership coaching, executive coaching, that

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there are many times when people,

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They aren't as thankful for the people that report

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to them as probably we should be. We look at what's wrong,

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we look at the challenges, we don't look at what we should be thankful

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for. And I think sometimes parenting, we can get a little bit like that

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too. Let's talk a little bit about some of the things that

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we were communicating about over coffee a couple mornings ago, I don't remember

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exactly when, About this topic of

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the mindset of we'll just talk

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about parenting right now because it's it'll spill over, but

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What's the mindset that that we should have as we parent

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and have these children that we're responsible for? Ours are grown,

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but it's still the same mindset. You know, I think the difference

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in the mindset is looking at your children

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as treasures and blessings that the Lord has given you, that you

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have for a period of time. Or are

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they burdens? God. I just would say get a little bit older

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so I don't have to tie their shoes anymore, or I don't have to wipe

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their nose, or I don't have to I and I'm

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not trying to pat myself on the back at all.

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I think this stemmed from probably my childhood.

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My childhood was, I guess, you could say it was a little bit of a

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traumatic childhood because my younger brother passed away from leukemia.

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A lot about my childhood life was not very

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steady or stable. So when I became a mom, I wanted a

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very steady, stable. I wanted what I didn't get. I wanted to

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give that to my kids. Is that why you married me?

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Steady stable? Probably. It's not boring,

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is it? No. Okay. Okay. Just wanna make sure. Don't

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be stopping me and getting my train of thought because You

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wanted steady stable. Okay. You married me, and then you wanted that

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for your family. Yes. And I ended up with

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that. I was I just felt so blessed that I had those

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children. I woulda had a ton more because I loved

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being a mom. I loved having the kids, and I loved

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every single stage except maybe that little bit of a colic stage. That one

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was tough. But other than that, I loved I loved it when they were

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babies. I loved it when they were toddlers. You always say,

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call me when they get toddlers. That's your fun time. I let cuddle I

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can cuddle a baby and I can get a baby to sleep. I love it.

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But every stage, I enjoyed. But I hear moms sometimes

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just going, oh my god, I cannot wait until they are big enough to bathe

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themselves or I can't wait till they're whatever. And I would

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just encourage you, be grateful for every single stage because I know plenty

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of women right now who would give anything to be a mom.

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They want a baby so bad. They are struggling with fertility. They that

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or they have lost a child or and they would do anything

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to be a mom and give that baby a bath. So

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I think it all goes back to that mindset of how are we looking at

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things. And when we were talking the other morning, we said the same thing could

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be said for an owner of a business who's got employees or a manager

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who's got people reporting to them. Are you looking at them as a burden?

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God. K. I've gotta deal with this person again. Or is

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it a blessing that you have somebody there? Maybe you might

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need to train them in some things. We gotta train our kids and things.

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They don't come out having table manners saying yes, ma'am, no,

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ma'am. You gotta train them to do things. And you have to train

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your employees and the people that report to you the same way. And it goes

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to being grateful and thankful, but

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what we say everything goes back to. What is it?

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Being a steward? Oh, your heart. Yeah. Issues are the heart. It's a heart issue.

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All a heart issue. Everything is a heart issue. How are you

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looking at it? And it all depends on your heart. If they're irritation and a

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burden, your heart's not right. That if they're a blessing and a

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treasure, you are loving the way Christ would

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love. So one of the things that People are getting a glimpse of

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is the way our coffee time really is that we interrupt each other a lot.

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Because one thing you said there triggered something in me, and I was wanting to

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say it and people even saw it on video. They're going, He's wanting to say

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something now. I'm not sure that I recall what it was. I I think I'm

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sorry. I think what it was, we started off talking about gratitude

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and how important gratitude was. Mhmm. And I think

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what we're talking about observing is the opposite of

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gratitude. What whatever the opposite

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Of gratitude is it is very

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toxic. Mhmm. It is very damaging.

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It is something that people can feel it if they're

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around if they're around you, they know.

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And I know that sometimes as

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a parent or a leader or a boss, that

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there may be frustrating things that we go through.

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However, and people have heard me use this word, we are a

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steward over those things that god has gifted us

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with, especially children. But I think as a leader or manager,

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you're a steward over the people that are currently working for you.

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And I think one of the things, and Glory can speak to this,

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That is so helpful is, number 1, we were saying be

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grateful and thankful, but then also take the

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time to study Those

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people that you have been gifted with,

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children, people that you work with,

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spouses, and it's something that we've always talked about it.

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At times, we're better at it than others, and that

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is Study your spouse.

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Because what we often do is get into our own little bubble, and we think

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about ourselves, and we can look at assessments, love languages, things like

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that, but we really need to be looking at the other one and saying, what

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is their learning style, communication style? What's their personality

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style? Love language. Love language. Yes. Hers is gift giving

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and It's the lowest on his list. It's I don't

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even think it exists. I don't even think it's on my list. That's the

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problem. Mine's words of affirmation. And And I

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think that I've told him something. He's you never said that. I'm like, I didn't

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I thought it. I didn't tell you. I was just thinking I was thinking it.

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Sorry. Thinking about how handsome we were at almost 60 years old or

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60 years old, but I didn't wanna tell you. You don't need to know.

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So it has worked for the 2 of us to actually meet the

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other one in their love language. But let we we have a few minutes here.

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Talk a little bit about That concept

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of studying because we had 2 children.

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Very different personalities, different learning styles. We homeschooled, so

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I learned their learning styles, 2 totally different learning styles,

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2 totally different disciplinary styles. But if I had

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just tried to do a formula, it wouldn't have worked for both of them. It

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might have worked for one of them and not the other. It might have worked

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for neither one of them. I don't know if I'd just start with one way.

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But I had to study the kids and I had to figure out what made

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them tick. And then you have to

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craft everything to that style.

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Our granddaughters are the same way. Two totally different

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personalities. And they are we already see it and they are this is

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they are they are 3a half and

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one and a half. Yeah. The perfect age for me because already see it. They're

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the perfect age for me because that's about my mentality. I can interact and

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communicate with them perfectly. So hopefully, they

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don't pass me up here soon, but we can already see different

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learning styles, personalities, and things like that. One of the things we mentioned

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to our daughter when we were leaving this last time because she was talking

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about schooling, and she's considering probably homeschooling and

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different school options. And I said, you think the best thing you to do right

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now is just try to learn what their

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styles are. Try to identify how they learn.

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Are they tactile learners? Are they do they repeat and memorize? Do

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they and I think that's one of the biggest challenges with, like, been Public

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school or big school systems or a big school. Yeah. They don't have the bandwidth.

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You can't do that. You can't. You just have to put everybody in a desk

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or in a box stuck. Whatever and say, this is the way it is, and

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it's really easy for people to be left behind

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Mhmm. Gone through the cracks. Or fall through the cracks, and some people can

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excel in that environment, some people can't, and

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so the work environment is the same way. For those of you that are

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running companies or organizations, it's the same

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thing. Study your people. Do the strength finders. We love the strength

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finders. Love languages may not be totally appropriate

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for the work environment, but it's still beneficial. Mhmm. And

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in others, DISC skin, things like that, Myers Briggs, others like that. They're

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good because it helps you learn about yourself, and then you can

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learn about others so that You could then sit

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down as you journal, as you're spending time in prayer, and say,

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listen. I've got Joe. I've got Fred. I've got Sally.

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What's the best way that I can lead and manage just like we did Dolce

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and Joshua? How do we need to educate? And we there was a lot

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of bumps along the way, but we learned

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With homeschooling, they had different styles. You gave them the plans and what

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happened? I would give them their lesson plans on Monday,

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and they had until Friday to get it done. I didn't care if

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stayed up late Monday and Tuesday getting it all done so they could play Wednesday,

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Thursday, Friday, or if they played Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and stayed up really

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hard Thursday and Friday to get it all done, but they better have it done

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Friday afternoon. Our daughter would

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normally get it all done Monday, Tuesday, and have the rest of the week

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to herself. Our son was the opposite, and he would play and they go, oh

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gosh. I gotta get everything done been then work really hard at the end of

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the week to get it done. But they knew it had to be

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turned in by Friday. So what's weird about it, I don't think he said, oh

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gosh. I don't really think he felt stressed or strained. He just

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Probably not. Rolled out of bed on Friday le

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leisurely And said We actually get it all done. I'm

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a do a little bit of school today. We can get it done. I don't

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think there was stress. You and I would be sitting on, kinda, gotta get it

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done. Have you done it? Have you done it? Have you done it? But got

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to the point where we didn't do that because You learn

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about that, and you learn what their styles are, and so

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I think one thing that kinda fits everything together we've discussed

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here Is, number 1, having

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gratitude in Thanksgiving, which is this is the season of Thanksgiving.

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And then I think what you discussed about the habit

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of gratitude is important because all of these

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things we're talking about, Parenting, managing, leading, things like that. I think

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when we're doing those habits of gratitude, I don't

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think it hurts. In fact, I think it helps. Anything you wanna say

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before we wrap up here and finish up this episode?

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I'm grateful for you. I was hopeful you'd say

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that. I was hopeful I wouldn't have to ask a question to get

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been 60 years of life, and it's good.

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Gonna be a good holiday season in 2024,

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depending on when people are listening to this, 2024,

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I believe it is going to be

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a phenomenal year for many people, But

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I also believe that some of these things we're talking about are gonna be very

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important because I think we're gonna look around and there's gonna be some challenging things

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mhmm. Outside of some of these

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practices of gratitude, I think that there may be some of us,

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Not trying to speak this over people, but we're going to have to get

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really good at showing gratitude because of some of the things around us are not

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going to look very nice. Mhmm. That we've got we can say. We've got an

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election coming up, and those are notoriously

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ugly. You throw in all the AI and the deep

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fake and all this kind of stuff. Mhmm.

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And pretty much how much neither one of the candidates are very liked. So

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you throw that in and it's like, well, we don't know for sure who the

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candidates are, but who they're saying that might be right now.

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Anyway Who we're expecting is. But I guess my point is

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to piggyback on what you're saying. It is so important for us

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not to get pulled down by all that, not to get

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tangled up in it. In fact, my stopping watching the

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news actually happened during the 2nd election

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that Obama was elected. Mhmm. And it got so

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nasty both sides. I couldn't deal with anymore because I was

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just getting so upset and so frustrated, and there was nothing I could do

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other than go out and cast my boat, but I could not change this.

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And so I just decided no more. I am not watching

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news. I am not reading the paper. I am not you know what? And I

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haven't missed much. If there's something big, somebody's gonna let me know, did

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you hear blah blah blah? There's a war there's a war going on.

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There's Yeah. And I don't need play by play Yeah. Blow of

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it all. And I would just encourage you, if it means turning off

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some news, turning off some social media, if

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you are prone to get a lot of social media that

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I get homestead chickens, sourdough. Mine's

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pretty calm in the social media. I've got it trained

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well. If you don't, then you may need to think

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about, I need to focus on what I'm grateful for, what I have been

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blessed with. Not what I don't have, not what I

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want, not what I'm a victim

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from, not just take some time out and be

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thankful for what you do have. What I

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would leave you with. I'm thankful for you also. Thank you. Thankful

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for all that you've been to me,

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and thank you for being on this episode. You're welcome.

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I appreciate that. And, Do you wish you guys could just be with us in

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our morning coffee because it's, like, not all of

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this stuff. It's just us sitting here, and we do have some

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amazing conversations. I'm like, darn, we should have recorded that. That was

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good. Wonder if I should just put the phone up and record some

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other day. Because it's just good. Added out some of the junk.

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So, anyway, have a fantastic

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holiday season. Be thankful, show gratitude,

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And and just make sure as you head into

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2024 that you are maybe implementing some

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of the things we talked about. Showing gratitude, maybe getting a

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journal and starting to write it down, and cutting out news, cutting

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out some of the junk. I could tell you that's always a good thing. I

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committed to cutting out the junk and then spending the time in scripture. And depending

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on where you spend your reading or where you get your nourishing or whatever,

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definitely tried to do that. Thanks for joining us here on this unique episode. If

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you're watching this on YouTube, jump down in the comments. Tell us what you're

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thankful for, give us some thoughts ideas. Let us know if you've got a

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gratitude or a journaling habit. Love to hear about that. If you're

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listening in on some of the podcast Platforms. There's places

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you can go to all of our socials at seek go create. You can go

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to all of those and chime in and comment. If you wanna get connected to

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glory, you can do that there will include some things down in the

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notes with the resources she mentioned, but I

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appreciate all of you listening in And being a part of all

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that we're doing here at seek go create, just trying to do

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some things to impact the world in a positive way.

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So Thanks for joining us. We have new episodes every Monday.

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Have a great holiday season, and continue being

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all that you were created to be. Happy Thanksgiving.