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find you find your talent find your
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purpose David George Brook that
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gratitude guy with a formula that I
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think could really help your life find
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yourself find your talent find your
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passion find your purpose in that order
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it makes a big difference I contend the
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most important relationship you'll ever
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have is the one you have with yourself
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when you like that person you brushing
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your teeth every morning and you have a
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good relationship with that person your
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better Fact one of the things I think
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about is that a lot of people that you
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have in your life and you've dealt with
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throughout your life that uh don't
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behave in the best manner if you will uh
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typically you can trace that back to
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lack of self-esteem when you feel good
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about yourself you don't feel a need to
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criticize other people to backstab
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people to be negative in so ways and
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your whole life as I say just works
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really better but that relationship with
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yourself is something you can always
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fine-tune and polish up if you will on a
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regular basis one of the reasons why I'm
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such a uh proponent of a gratitude
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Journal is it keeps that relationship
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with yourself at a very very high level
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it's really it's really important and
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it's just an element that'll keep you
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focusing on all your blessings and
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abundance and not worrying about the
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lack in your life or the things that you
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don't have and that increases the
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yourself I went down to Reno um a number
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of times in the last 20 years with a
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buddy of mine and we'd go down there and
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Gamble and see a show and and uh spend
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some time together just having a good
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time for Friday Saturday Sunday and I
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remember once we were playing the slot
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machines and I was playing one he was
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over to the side and and all of a sudden
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they hear all this racket and it's a 25
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cent machine back in the days when they
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took the quarters and he'd put the 25
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cents in and he got $1,000 and he's
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going like this like Brooker Brooker my
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nickname Brooker Brooker uh I just want
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$1,000 and I come over behind him and I
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kind of put my hand on the shoulder and
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I Pat him and I go congratulations he
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goes I'm buying dinner and I thought
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yeah that's fantastic and the quarters
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keep crashing down and stuff it was
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really cool and um I just remember
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sitting there thinking I was really
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happy for him I truly was really happy
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for him but I'd be just a teeny bit
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happier if it was me and so people hear
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that and they go wow listen to you
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you're not happy friend no I'm just
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being honest I'm just telling you that
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honestly I'd feel a little bit happier
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if it was me it'd be exciting just for
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knowing that uh I had the Thousand but
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of course I was very happy for him but
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I'm just again telling the truth on that
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and so forth but I think it's so
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important and I think how you see
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yourself and how you continue to polish
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and fine-tune that relationship is so
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important and I'll give you I'll give
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you an example like I take this this is
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a a $20 bill Andrew Jackson and I think
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when I would give it to people in in my
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audiences and thing and I give it I
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think most people would take it and then
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I tell them if I crush it up like this
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would you still take it and I think most
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people would and then if I put it on the
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ground stomp on it smooth it out again
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like that and I give it to people I
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think most people would take it but if I
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look at Andrew Jackson and I go listen
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Andrew Jackson you are a waste of time
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you're worthless I don't even know why
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you're on this planet you're a
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knucklehead nobody likes you and I don't
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even know what it'd be like to beat you
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because you're such a bad person Andrew
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Jackson would look back at me and he
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would say well listen Mr Speaker man Mr
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gratitude guy you can say whatever you
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want about me but I'm still worth 20
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bucks and he would be right he still is
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worth 20 $ so why do you let somebody
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Crush you step on you tell you you're
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worthless or you're not worthy or
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whatever it is and worst of all devalue
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you from $20 to 15 to 10 to five to the
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worst zero and let them get away with it
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the bottom line is is if you focus on
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everything you're grateful for a
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gratitude Journal your gratitude your
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abundance and your um blessings in your
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life if you will uh you will have the
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best Teflon the best armor and you will
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be able to fend off people that attack
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you in your life and make you feel less
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than you should so next that's find
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yourself next find your talent you know
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think about your talent think about what
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you're good at what you like to do make
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your strengths productive make your
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weaknesses irrelevant don't worry about
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your weaknesses I have a strength I'm a
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speaker I can speak to people I've
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spoken to 10,000 soldiers at our local
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uh military base Joint Base Lewis McCord
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it's down south of Seattle where I live
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but I can't draw a circle to save my
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life so I'm not going to go take an art
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class it doesn't make sense so think
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about the things that you really good at
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it really could make a big difference I
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remember once I wanted to play soccer
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and the guy told me when we were playing
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soccer he said like just when you get
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the ball just give it to somebody else
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don't try to do anything with it and I
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didn't even know how to play very well
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it wasn't very good and I see the ball
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coming at me and it hits me in the face
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and it goes into the goal and they come
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over they come over and they're cheering
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me yay you got a goal this is fantastic
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goal I was trying to run for my life it
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hit me in the face gave me a bloody nose
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and went into the goal it wasn't even
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part of the plan I was I didn't even
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know header that what a nice header
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header I was just trying to protect my
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face so I wasn't very good at soccer but
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I was good at football and other things
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and so forth so makes really really a
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big difference and so next think about
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finding your passion so find yourself
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find your talent find your passion what
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are you passionate about what did you
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want to be when you grew up what would
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you like to be that would every day you
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couldn't wait to get out of bed to go to
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work I had a job working at Nordstrom as
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a store manager and I just remember
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going to bed at night I could not wait
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to get to sleep so I could get back up
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in the morning get back to the store
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because I felt like I was the mayor of a
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small town it was just the coolest job I
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ever had and so you really want to try
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to find your passion around something
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like that and so what would you do for
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no money if you didn't get paid what
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would you think about that so figure out
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what your passion is and I think
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ultimately what'll happen is that if you
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have a good relationship with yourself
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you figure out that relationship you
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figure out your talent you figure out
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your passion you'll probably figure out
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your purpose and I think everybody
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ultimately wants to find out what their
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purpose is I think we're hardwired to
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find our purpose they say people that
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have a purpose that are up at my age and
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later on in life live 7 to 10 years
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longer because they have a purpose
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and it's so so very important and and
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make sure it's something again that you
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you take those three steps because the
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solid foundation with yourself figure
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out what you're good at the talent that
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you have and then figuring out what
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you're passionate about will take you to
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your purpose and I think it's so
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important uh I I once had a date with a
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G and we're we're having the salad we're
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not even to the main course yet and she
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3,467 like what are you talking about
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she goes that's how many days until I
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oh my Lord check please time to go so
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you know it's like figure that out and
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make sure it's something you like you
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know and you've heard the line if you if
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you enjoy what you do you never work
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another day in your life and so figure
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out what that is but along the way use
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gratitude and if you think about it too
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also think about writing about it as
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well here's my gratitude Journal I'll
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put a a link in the description that
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gratitude guys daily gratitude Journal
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there's a little saying that says if you
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think about it it's a dream if you talk
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about it it inspires you but if you
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write about it it empowers you make such
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a big difference and so riding every day
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I'm grateful for these blessings in
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abundance my health my family my friends
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my job my house my my uh car whatever it
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might be that you're grateful for talk
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about the most important things first
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and typically I don't like to lead the
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witness but I think if Health isn't your
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number one thing you're grateful for I
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don't know what is because without your
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health you don't have much so think
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about that formula thank you for
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listening today find yourself find your
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talent find your passion find your
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purpose and you'll have a more
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fulfilling life absolutely so follow
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those steps write in the Gratitude
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journal and that'll get you there I'm
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that gratitude got remember be grateful
