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Episode 380: Choosing Gratitude When Life Isn't Perfect · Positively 365: Inspire, Motivate, Support

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Positively three hundred and sixty five, a podcast
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  Speaker 1: by Joe Wattis. We wish to entertain, instruct and motivas.
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  Speaker 1: If nothing else, Hopefully we can entertain and inspire you
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  Speaker 1: to live a more positive life three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: A man walked into a bookstore and asked, do you
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  Speaker 2: and whispered, They're right behind you. Welcome to this week's
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  Speaker 2: episode of Positively three six'. Five this week we talk about,
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  Speaker 2: gratitude more specifically the importance of choosing gratitude when life isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect we will explore why gratitude works even during difficult
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  Speaker 2: seasons and how to practice it. Daily but first we
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  Speaker 2: have our trivia question of the. Day are you ready for?
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  Speaker 2: Here it is what year Was thanksgiving declared a national
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  Speaker 2: holiday in The United. States we will have the answer
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  Speaker 2: Reading welcome. Back do you know the answer to this
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  Speaker 2: week's trivia? Question the question was in what year Was
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  Speaker 2: thanksgiving declared a national holiday in The United. States the
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  Speaker 2: answer is one eight six.' Three President abraham Lincoln proclaimed
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  Speaker 2: thanksgiving a national holiday During The. Civil war he designated
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  Speaker 2: it as a day of thanksgiving, and praise to be
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  Speaker 2: observed on The final Thursday. Of november his proclamation was
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  Speaker 2: influenced in part By Writer Sarah, josepha hale who had
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  Speaker 2: long campaign for a national day of thanks Since then
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  Speaker 2: thanksgiving has become A lasting american tradition centered, on, gratitude
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  Speaker 2: reflection and. Gathering together now, you know choosing gratitude when
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  Speaker 2: life is not perfect does not mean ignoring pain or
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  Speaker 2: pretending everything. Is fine it means recognizing that even in,
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  Speaker 2: hard seasons there is still, something, good meaningful. Or sustaining.
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  Speaker 2: To notice gratitude works because it shifts our focus from
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  Speaker 2: what is missing to what. Is present that shift can calm,
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  Speaker 2: our stress strengthen, our perspective and remind us that difficulty
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  Speaker 2: is not the. Whole story one way to practice gratitude
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  Speaker 2: daily is to name three things you are thankful for
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  Speaker 2: each morning. Or evening another is to thank people more
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  Speaker 2: often for, their, kindness time. Or support you can also
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  Speaker 2: pause during the day and notice one, simple blessing like a,
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  Speaker 2: quiet moment, a meal or a word. Of encouragement gratitude
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  Speaker 2: will not make, life perfect but it can help make, life,
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  Speaker 2: steadier lighter and. More hopeful as we close, THIS episode
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  Speaker 2: i leave you with this. Final thought gratitude does not
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  Speaker 2: require a, perfect life only a. Willing heart even on,
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  Speaker 2: difficult days there is strength in choosing to notice what is.
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  Speaker 2: Still Good As melody, beattie said gratitude turns what we have.
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  Speaker 2: Into enough so until, next time stay positive today and.
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  Speaker 2: Every day.
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  Speaker 1: stay positive today and, every day three hundred and sixty
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