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Saying Thank You · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamas. Do your mama's Why don't people today
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  understand just how powerful a sincere thank you is? Well, let's ask our
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  American mamas. Am mama in joining us now our American mama's turnout Ofville and
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  Kimberly Burlison. I'll tell you what. Growing up in my house, the
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  worst thing you could do would be lie near the top would be to not
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  say thank you. Oh yeah, like you needed to say thank you.
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  That's just drilled and it was just that was just how you wore. That's
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  just that's the same in our home. Yeah, you have to appreciate when
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  it's expected. You tend to lay off the pedal. You're like, okay,
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  if I'm not going to be appreciated for doing the dishes every night or
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  whatever, then you're like okay until somebody appreciates. We were just talking about
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  this. Actually this weekend we have a banquet and the people who help,
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  they're doing it on their own free time. You know, their effort,
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  their energy, their time. It's so valuable. And there is an art
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  that a lot of people some well not a lot of people. Some people
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  don't recognize the art in this and how important it is. But if you
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  don't truly value and appreciate them and let them know, and also let them
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  know in front of other people, let you know, I've got this good
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  friend that she does. She's brilliant and she can do anything and everything.
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  And I know she didn't have a lot of time to spare, but if
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  I asked her to help me with something, she's there. She shouldn't right
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  next to you. Yeah, here she is, Yeah, cubula to my
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  sister's. That's a given. We're all in it together. But it was
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  interesting because she's not used to being validated or appreciated the way that our family
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  does, like in front of the crowd, and Coach Burrows did a great
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  job of making us feel very valued as part of the team that helped put
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  this on. And it just goes. It goes so far because you're not
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  getting paid for it, but you're like, I'm gonna help that dude next
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  year because he said thinking he appreciated us not only to our faces, but
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  to the crown. So I think about all of these people who are in
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  leadership positions when they serve the people that are actually quote unquote under them,
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  they serve them, build them up, appreciate them. You'll have a successful
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  cabinet, you'll have a successful administration. And you know, well we are
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  talking about you know, being appreciated is kind of a lost ar. And
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  this is on a very very small level. But Terry has a friend whose
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  mother makes bunk cake and this is this is kind of the bunk cake,
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  the way bunk cakes are supposed to be made. Okay, it is next
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  level. Well, Terry, she brought one for Terry. Terry just ood
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  and odd and oh my gosh, Well she now brings her a bunk cake
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  every time she sees her Mississippi. Yeah, you know, so we got
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  to partake in a bunk cake this weekend and was I wrong? Oh my
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  gosh, the best bunk cake I've ever had in my entire life. Yeah,
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  you know, so we have to let her know this is the best
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  we've ever had. So she's gonna make sure we and I thought, this
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  is what it's like when anybody feels like you acknowledge something that they do that's
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  special, something that's great, they can't wait for the next time they get
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  to give that to you. And that's in every area of life. Do
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  you really talk about what you did. This was so impressive to me because
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  I know a lot of videographers that their job is to videotape weddings and right
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  well, Kimerlin and I were talking about this one day and what she did.
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  I said, Oh my gosh, tell him what you did? What
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  I do? Well, she had one of either shamed. Somebody videotaped her
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  and Mike and Stone and Morgan watching the wedding video. Oh oh, oh,
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  oh that's what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah, So the guy
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  that did our wedding video for Stone and Morgan's wedding, my son and daughter
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  in law, Shane, secretly recorded us watching the wedding video. So and
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  it's so sweet because we're crying, we're laughing, we're cheering. Well,
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  I put together their little video and I sent it to him and I said,
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  I just wanted you to see our reaction to to what he has created
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  and created. It takes hours. He said, I have watched that so
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  many times, and he goes. Anytime I feel myself kind of feel discouraged
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  about what I'm doing, I watch that video and it helps me to keep
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  on going with what I'm doing. Wow, And I thought, just showing
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  somebody some appreciation, letting them know verbally or you know, with a video.
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  This is how you made us feel. It is payment, It is
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  more than it is more than being paid money. It is a gift.
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  Well that's what I was thinking. You know, he got paid for that
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  job. But to be paid in appreciation that adds even more value to it,
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  you know, And it lets him see that what he's doing has given
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  families not only a video that they've paid for, but a treasure that will
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  be viewed and loved and loved on by generations to come, an emotional impact.
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  And there is an art to it. You've got to teach your children
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  early. Like in the South, a lot of the moms we teach our
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  children to write thank yous whenever people give you a gift, you know,
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  senior graduation gifts. And your kids are like, oh my god, I
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  have twenty letters I have to write. Well, you're gonna before you go
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  out, you gotta get five done. Because the art of appreciation, especially
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  in that sense, it goes so far. It's just a good practice.
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  You know. For our wedding, Wendy had every single thank you note for
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  the gifts written before we went on the honeymoon. That's incredible, every single
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  one of them. That is it? Check check check yeah. Wow.
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  And there were people men who sent thank you notes to my parents for having
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  received the thank you note from Wendy so fast, thank you to the thing
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  real. They were like, this is amazing thing never I've never had that
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  kind of interesting. That's incredible. A long lever it does it does?
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  button, turn out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much, thank you,