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131. Ingredients for an Enriched Life · Your Enriched Self

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  Just a reminder that words are powerful. The words you speak over your life
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  are the most powerful things that will live on and manifest. If you are
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  not careful, it can go in a direction that is not desirable. I
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  want you to think about your words, the words you say, the things
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  you say to yourself, the things you say out loud, even in jest.
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  Think about words as many contracts that you are signing away for your life.
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  In the Bible, I believe it's in Proverbs it says that death and
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  life are in the power of the tongue. My question to you is are
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  you speaking death or are you speaking life? Hello, my friends from all
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  across the globe, and welcome to the Your and re Cell Podcast. I
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  am your host, Maileen Noir. I am a mindset coach and your mindset
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  advocate. And what this podcast is all about, it's about you. I
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  want you to become more of your enriched self. So each and every week,
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  I've curated this platform so that I can walk you through and talk with
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  you about mindset fusion topics, self care, soul care, intentional thinking.
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  Because we know that your words are inspired by your thoughts, and those thoughts
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  become the action and the activity that you participate in the world you live.
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  And if I know you and you're listening to this podcast, you want to
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  be and show up as the best verse of yourself. And that's how we
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  start from the inside out. And if you're new to the podcast, I
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  want to welcome you and thank you for being here. If you are a
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  repeat listener, we are an episode one hundred and thirty one and we are
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  growing and glowing and it's all because of you. So thank you from the
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  bottom of my heart. And before we get started with this week's episode,
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  if you know you know what I do each and every week is I make
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  a deposit in the bank of you. And I do that by way of
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  affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to start your day and to command your
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  morning. And this week's affirmation is I am thankful for all I have and
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  all I will accomplish. I am thankful for all I have and all I
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  will accomplish. I am thankful for all I have and all I will accomplish.
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  Now let's get ready for this week's episode of Your Enriched Self podcast.
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  Remember growing up watching the news, my dad would always turn on ABC World
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  News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and we would sit around the TV and watch
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  the news, and we would watch all these things that were happening in the
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  world. And if I'm being honest, I don't really remember or recall or
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  even understood what was happening in the world around me. Naturally, we would
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  watch the local news and we will follow up with the world news. And
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  again I was not very aware of all the things in my world. And
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  so as I grew and I remember being in cop and I kind of got
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  out of watching the news. I wasn't really thinking about watching the news or
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  watching TV for the news was for everything else. But and as I started
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  to, you know, mature and grow and have my family, I went
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  right back to those old habits of watching TV and watching the news specifically in
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  the morning, in the evening and whenever I could catch it. And it
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  was just because it's what I saw growing up. I think we all adopt
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  some of the things that we saw and that becomes the norm of our lives.
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  And I one day I started thinking, Man, this can't be it.
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  Why is the news always full of doom and gloom? You know?
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  Some time would go on, I would join Toast Masters, and I remember
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  giving a speech on podcasts and how I loved podcasts. I thought to myself
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  while I was preparing that particular speech, why don't I start a podcast?
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  And now I get to do the thing or be the change in the world
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  that I would like to see. Because for a long time, everything I
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  was consuming, and so much of what you might be consuming is shaping your
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  world. I saw doom and gloom growing up, and so I started to
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  set my expectation around maybe some bad things happening today. I started looking at
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  more death than life because of how the news painted the picture of the world.
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  And I remember hearing this a few years ago. I can't take credit
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  for it, but I've since adopted it. If you don't like what you
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  see, change the picture. And I didn't like what I was seeing or
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  hearing, and I became the frame for this picture, this opportunity for you
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  to listen for and listen to and become enriched. And so today I want
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  to share with you the ingredients for becoming enriched. As I mentioned, so
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  much of you want to grow. You want to grow to the best version
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  of yourself. The whole idea of an enriched life, which is really a
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  journey, and a rich life doesn't end or begin with the riches you amassed.
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  And a rich life is working not just on the outside, but starting
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  the work from the inside and leveling up from there. And so if I
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  were to put a recipe together for an enriched life, it would definitely include
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  some of these ingredients. For one, you have to walk and live with
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  the spirit of expectancy. I was at work recently and it was really interesting
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  because I was getting ready to do a quick task and some of the elements
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  of that task weren't together properly. I was really just going to the mailroom,
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  if I'm being honest, I was just taking something to the mailroom.
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  I printed something off. The label was larger than a normal mailing label,
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  and the guy that you know sits in my area said, I don't think
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  that's gonna work. I said, what do you mean. He said,
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  I don't think they're going to accept that in the mailroom. I think you're
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  gonna run into a lot of trouble. I mean, he was really pressed
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  about this label not being the normal, you know, label size, and
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  I said to him, I won't have an issue. Everything will be fine.
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  And I said, in fact, these people know how to do their
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  jobs in the mailroom, and I think everything's going to be fine, and
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  I'm not worried about a thing. And he said, I don't know.
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  I just don't think it's going to work out. And I said, well,
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  I think different, and I actually believe higher than that, and of
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  course I go to the mailroom and it was in fact not an issue at
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  all. But this is just I mean, it's just a small example,
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  right, But think about the big things in his life, or the things
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  in your life that you are already speaking death over. You are already having
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  a negative talk track about something, and it starts with the little things.
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  It was this mailroom label, and then it's going to be the next opportunity
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  that you get. It's going to be the bank account that you want to
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  grow, it's going to be the business you want to start. It's going
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  to be all these things that you start to slowly just chip away until you
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  don't have anything to expect. And the whole point of this ingredient, if
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  you will, is to embrace a positive outlook. That's it. Just embrace
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  a positive outlook. Expect good things to happen, Expect things to work out.
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  Open yourself up to the opportunities, open yourself up to the possibilities.
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  That shifts your mindset, That creates a space for optimism, that creates real
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  estate in your mind for growth, that encourages you to just go through life.
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  And even if you get a wall built, guess what, I'm still
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  embracing that on the other side of our wall that went up, there's something
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  positive for me to look for. What if you did that, how would
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  your life change? How much more enriched would you be? I would say
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  tenfold. As we further think about the ingredients for an enriched life, there
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  has to be a fundamental knowledge of failure. And I talk about failure a
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  lot because it is the thing that held me back from doing so many and
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  diving into so many opportunities and putting myself out there. I was afraid to
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  fail. I was afraid to go out there and not do well out of
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  thing. But when I started to understand the nature of failures and that setbacks
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  are just part of the story. If we would just get over the fact
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  that we are gonna fail. The thing about it is we resisted so bad
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  and the thing that you resist persist, and so you resist failure, and
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  you resist failure, and you don't do the thing, and you don't do
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  the thing, and then you wonder why you're not getting the results, and
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  you wonder why you're not further ahead, and you wonder why all these things
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  you say in this wonderland and nothing is accomplished in wonderland. Failure gives you
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  lessons. When I started thinking about failure in that way, my life got
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  enriched. And I know it's gonna enrich your life. You must embrace this
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  fundamental It's part of your story. All of your greats, the ones that
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  are greatest of all time, however you want to name or frame them,
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  Think about your parents, think about yourself. You failed only to get better,
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  only to find this new wisdom that was buried under this failure. You
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  would never have arrived to this wisdom if you didn't fall, If you didn't
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  fail, You can't pick anything up if you're standing up. So yes,
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  you fell, you fell down, You saw the thing, you picked the
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  thing up, and here you are standing with new outlooks, and now you're
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  just you're just kind of another stepping stone. So failure is such an important
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  part of your story. And again, once I figured that out and started
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  to embrace it. That way, I started to live more enriched okay,
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  and I want that for you. But it starts with this simple fundamental and
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  the last thing I'm gonna talk about when it comes to these ingredients for living
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  and enriched life and having that enriched lifestyle, and it's one of my favorite
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  topics, which is gratitude. Gratitude is probably the most I'll go on record
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  to say it is the most powerful ingredient for your enriched life. Again,
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  what you focus on expands, Gratitude says, I'm focused on the blessings.
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  I know I don't have this yet, but here's what I have now.
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  I know I haven't arrived there yet, but look at the steps I took
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  over the years to arrive where I am now. Gratitude is a now release.
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  It's a now experience. It's not waiting to be thankful in the future.
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  It's not waiting for gratitude after something's done. It's right now. Ooh,
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  I feel that gratitude. I have the appreciation now. I can connect
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  to my world differently now simply because I am able to be grateful in the
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  moment. Now, when you're grateful, you start to build, I would
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  say, many cities of contentment, and that allows you to grow your inner
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  self. The inner cities of who you are are built on gratitude. When
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  the inner cities of who you are are built on gratitude, you are connected
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  and can go anywhere. It is a beautiful symphony gratitude to just look at
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  life and appreciate what you have in the life in the moment, because we
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  know moments change. We know that life opportunities change, and some of these
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  things happen like a light sweat, the flick of a switch. Your life
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  can change. I remember there was a time I would look at photos of
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  myself and I would say, while, girl, you were this size,
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  or you look this certain way, and I would admire that photograph. But
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  I remember, after some years of maturity, I started thinking, while I
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  was having that moment taking that photograph, how I was miserable about what I
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  was looking at when I looked in the mirror because this was raised this high
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  and my eyebrows weren't filled in, and I you know, I felt fat
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  at the time. But I'm now looking at this picture and I look so
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  good now then that I do. You know what I mean? When I
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  compare. It's the crazy thing that we do. We don't appreciate what we
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  have. The fact that you are alive, and you have breath in your
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  and you have your mind, you have your faculties. You can move,
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  and you can talk, and you can you still can reach out to loved
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  ones. And you still have your mom or your dad, or your sibling,
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  your spouse, your kids. I don't know what you have, but
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  I know you have something to be grateful for. And as soon as you
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  recognize that gratitude isn't a destination. Gratitude is the here and now, you
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  will start looking around your environment even as I speak, and you will start
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  to find reasons to be grateful. There are in the room you're in,
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  on the drive you're on, wherever you are right now. If you look
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  around, you can recognize that there are thousands of things to be grateful for.
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  And you know what, I'm just gonna challenge you spend some time on
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  your drive home, on your commute home, I challenge you to turn off
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  the radio, get off your phone, and spend that ride just speaking about
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  the things you're grateful for. I promise you you're gonna get on a roll
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  there are multitudes of things to be grateful for. Those are the ingredients.
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  That's the enriched life that I want you to live. It is an absolute
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  symphony. When you combine the expectancy, the fundamental of failure, and gratitude,
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  you have a symphony of enrichment and it sets a beautiful tone for the
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  enriched life that you're gonna live. It helps you to identify the wisdom that's
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  out there from those failed attempts of life, and then it helps to cultivate
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  a heart that is just filled with gratitude. I hope you enjoyed this week's
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  we have the affirmation of the week, the quote of the week, and
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  do what you must in the next one hundred and sixty eight hours so that
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  you can become more of your enriched self until we meet again. Books in the