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Hi, it's the Berk of that Gratitude guy
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This past weekend was the Rotary District Conference up in Vancouver, British Columbia
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I was fortunate enough to do a couple of breakouts, workshops on happiness starting with gratitude
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and was absolutely overwhelmed by the incredible group of people that were gathered for this conference
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Probably five or six hundred people, maybe seven hundred people. Incredible speakers, Father Steve Sundberg, the president of Seattle University, Craig
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Kielberger, one of the co-founders of Free the Children and the We Day movement, which
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I talked about a couple of weeks ago. Pete Corelli, General Pete Corelli talked about the Army and all sorts of interesting
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things that are happening today. And probably at the top of the list, Bill Gates, Sr. spoke of just phenomenal progress
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that Rotary and some of the things that Rotary and his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates
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Foundation has done. Many many tremendous people that were there that I got a chance to meet
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And again, these two breakouts that I did, and there's actually a link right below that's
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just a little clip of one of the breakouts I did if you'd like to see a bit about the happiness starts with gratitude breakout session that I did
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But the most important message is what is the service message? What is the message, the motto if you will, of Rotary
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Service above self. And when you surround yourself with people like that, it reminded me so much of how I
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talk over and over again about how we focus on what we have versus what we don't have
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If we focus on people that want to change the world, impact lives, make a difference
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really really embrace service above self, you can't help but have that rising tide that
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raises all ships. So incredible experience, Rotary and so many service organizations are changing the world
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And when you embrace gratitude and when you understand gratitude in your life, you're
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in a position to help other people. Because as I've said many times, if you want to help yourself, help other people
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Tremendous experience, I'm so pleased to see polio has almost been completely eradicated
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from the world thanks to Rotary and so many other individuals that have helped out
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So tremendous experience, Rotary, tremendous attitude of service above self, and most of
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all it starts with you, it starts with me, and embracing gratitude
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Because by embracing gratitude, you put yourself in a position to help other people as well
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as first and foremost helping yourself so you can do just exactly that
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That's the message for today. Have a grateful day.
