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It's that time of the year again, the hap-hap-happiest time of the year.
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On the eve of Thanksgiving, we find ourselves counting our blessings, feeling awful, grateful and handing out copious thank-yous.
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Today, on Share the Struggle Podcast, I'm going to ask you three simple questions that will reveal just how prominent gratitude is in your life.
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That's right.
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On today's episode of Share this Rago podcast, we're going to hit you with a thankful test for your Thanksgiving table.
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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations?
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
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What it do, what it hot and diddy-do good loud.
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Am I so excited to be back with you?
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Oh, it's true, it's damn true.
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I almost hit you with a ooh-ooh-ooh into a mm-mm-mm, because I am having my first official glass of eggnog for the holiday season.
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Oh God yeah.
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Mmm, mmm.
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Ah wow.
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That is eggy and delicious, I will say probably doesn't make for the best audio and you know I'll be lip smacking, freaking creamy eggs all around when I'm trying to talk.
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So I'm going to cleanse the old palate here.
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I should go ahead and edit that out, and clearly I can, I have that ability and it's early in the recording.
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I can go ahead and edit that out and clearly I can, I have that ability and it's early in the recording.
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I can go ahead and do that.
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But I think there's some humor to be found in the ridiculousness between me talking out my mistakes here.
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So I'm going to leave it.
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I'm going to leave it for the benefit of all of us, because this is the time of the year where we must be thankful, give a little thanks and give a few breaks.
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You know what I mean.
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Let some stuff slide.
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So I can trust you to let that slide.
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Hot diggity, damn y'all.
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If you are a loyal listener, a regular listener, a consistent listener, a day one, a loyal one, you know what I'm saying.
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Get your ones.
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I see you, I feel you out there, I feel your presence.
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Get your ones up to the sky all my day ones the truth from me to you the the innermost feelings of this guy is to tell you I love you and I thank you and I appreciate you.
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So if you're a loyal, a consistent, a regular in these parts, you know that our podcast drops every single week on a wednesday, not just any old wednesday, a winning wednesday.
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A little fun fact for you, in case y'all forgot or you're new around here and you don't realize why I decided to drop things on a wing Wednesdays.
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Because I do truly feel that Wednesday is the make it or break it day in the week.
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Wednesday is that hump day, right?
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Mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike, hump day.
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We all remember that commercial.
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That's not the reason why I picked Wednesday.
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It's because the old saying of hump day once you get over the hump, the weekend is upon us and it's all smooth sailing.
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It's because the old saying of hump day once you get over the hump, the weekend is upon us and it's all smooth sailing.
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It's downhill from there.
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I decided to drop our podcast on Wednesdays because I feel like we have an uplifting, motivating show.
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An inspiring show, don't you know?
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And my hope has always been that if we drop a inspirational, a motivational, a positive, uplifting message on a Wednesday.
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It can motivate you to save your week, to make the best of your week.
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I always felt that Wednesday is a make it or break it day in the week.
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If you started off and you came in on Monday with a case of the Mondays or Tuesday, you were hungover and feeling sorry for yourself from a piss-poor game of Monday night football, which has happened to me more times than I care to admit.
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But if you've mailed it in, you came in with a case of the Mondays, had a shitty day of work on Monday.
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On Tuesday you were dragging your ass through the sand, you weren't getting things done, or maybe you just had one of those projects that just went, just flopper looski, okay, you just couldn't get things done.
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You've been chasing the eight ball.
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Today is your day.
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Wednesday is your day.
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It is the last day, the opportunity day to turn things around.
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Think about it.
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If the average person works five days in a week and for some reason, if Monday and Tuesday didn't go your way, wednesday is your day.
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You can change your whole week.
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Today it is make it and break it day to day.
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If you can make things happen, you all of a sudden have a ball of positivity to build on for the rest of your week, because if you win today, if you win on Wednesday, you have an opportunity to win your week, because by the art of mathematics, three has always been greater than two.
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So if you win Wednesday and you build on that with a positive, productive Thursday and you just happen to crush it on Friday because you've got that momentum rolling in your favor, then you just won the week.
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So I swoop into your headset, into your headphones, into your earplugs, into your rosebuds, into your radios, whatever you listen to, whatever you're dialed into, we swing on in every damn week.
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On Wednesday Should be dropping at five in the morning, mind you, to save your week and give everybody the opportunity to win their week.
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That's why we drop episodes on Winning Wednesday.
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Hot damn, I'm feeling good right now.
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I don't know what just sprung upon me, but I just happened to realize it's been quite some time since we defined the reason as to why we drop episodes on Wednesday.
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That's my reason, y'all.
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That is the reason.
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Okay, now this Wednesday just happens to be an ultra special Wednesday because this Wednesday just so happens to be Thanksgiving Eve.
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That's right.
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Thanksgiving has long been one of my favorite holidays.
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I mean, let's just set the scene for a minute here.
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The only obligation on Thanksgiving is to show up and to eat and to watch, consume, overindulge in football.
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Me being a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, who every year for Thanksgiving has the Cowboys on it, is a true momentous special occasion to be able to sit back with no responsibility other than to eat and to watch the Cowboys, other than to eat and to watch the Cowboys.
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Now give me that Cabela's catalog.
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Put my left hand on the Cabela's catalog, beat a little eyes to the sky, raise my right hand, chew from the sky.
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The Cowboys have ruined a lot more Thanksgivings than I care to admit, and this year we're already in the shitter.
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So my expectations are low.
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So I don't think they can ruin it.
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So there's that Did.
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So I don't think they can ruin it.
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So there's that.
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Did you guys also know when this episode drops on Thanksgiving Eve?
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That also happens to be one of the biggest bar days of the year.
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I actually think it might be like the biggest bar day of the year.
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I know Super Bowl is probably close, but if I do recall, my research has led me to realize that Thanksgiving Eve is the busiest day at the bars of the year Everybody's home and all your college kids coming home.
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For, you know, holiday break and such, it's always reunion night at the bar.
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So all you folks out there looking to go to the bar, good luck, be safe, have fun, make memories and, you know, wash your face.
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I don't know, some of y'all don't clean your face.
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I don't know where that came from.
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I won't be at the bar this year because I'm going to be home with my beautiful little baby this year.
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Because I'm going to be home with my beautiful little baby and, if all things go correctly, I will be smoking my first brisket Brisket, yes, Get that right.
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No bad habits here, America.
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You thought I was going in a real bad direction when I said smoking my first.
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I know you sinners.
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Truth is, Thanksgiving depends on me not getting this wrong.
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I got a beautiful, gorgeous slab of brisket in the fridge just waiting for magic to happen.
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The unfortunate thing here is my wife bought me a beautiful smoker a couple years ago and I have yet to take it out of the box.
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I should have grabbed my Cabela's catalog and given another confessional right there, because I feel like a bad husband, a poor gift receiver, and my man card could lose a stamp because I've had this unopened smoker just waiting for awesomeness to happen.
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But the truth is y'all know that a smoker takes commitment.
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There's a lot of commitment, there's time, there's dedication, and I've been running quite low on time, but I will say, picking one of the biggest holidays of the year and cooking a pricey and my favorite slab of meat possible.
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There's a lot of pressure to not screw up and you know we'll see how this goes.
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It's a good 10, 12 hour process.
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I think I'm going to cook it on Thanksgiving Eve to prepare myself for the big Thanksgiving feast.
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Now, I didn't take all the pressure on my shoulders.
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We did purchase a family turkey.
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My mom's going to cook that, just in case I absolutely destroy this brisket as much of a sin as that would be, the possibility does exist.
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So just putting all that out there, Okay, I don't expect anything fantastic.
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I just want to pull this off, and if we could get the first one done, then we know how to build off of it.
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We know where to go from there.
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So let's just not screw it up.
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Let's just have a decent old brisket that I can just slap around and make love to for a week.
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You know what I mean?
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Just a lot of meat there.
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So I'm actually planning on Sunday, brisket and baked beans.
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Okay, Just a beautiful little weekend.
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I do have planned for myself here.
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Now, if you are a day one, we've been talking about this.
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If you're a loyal one, you've been listening since day one get your wands up.
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I love you, I recognize you, I acknowledge you.
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If you are a day one, you know over the past few years.
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On Thanksgiving we always have a coincidence.
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Our episode always comes out on Thanksgiving Eve, right?
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Shocker Funny story.
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One of my best friends.
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He manages a meat department at a supermarket and one of his employees a year ago said to him hey, is Thanksgiving on Thursday again this year?
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He also asked is Christmas going to be on the 25th?
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Yeah, they're raising folks like that right now.
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Okay, People are getting raised wrong.
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That's just a screenshot of society.
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But I do believe next year will be Thanksgiving on Thursday again.
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So we'll drop again.
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But what I'm leading up to here is, over the past few years I came up with a little thing called a thank you bomb and what my thank you bomb is to go through, like your friends list or your recent messages list, all those types of lists the people that you commonly interact with socially interact with.
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The easiest way to find those folks is number one.
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You can think about who you haven't spoken to in a long time and surprise them, blast them right between the eyes.
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Or you can open up your phone and go through your most recent messages.
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You know you interact with those folks on a regular basis.
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But the key to a thank you bomb is to get out ahead of the Thanksgiving messages.
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You probably have some family and friends that reach out to you and say happy Thanksgiving.
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There's some power in the fact that if you reach out previous to Thanksgiving, if you get out there earlier than what is pre-prescribed, what is written in stone, right, there's always that list of people that you reach out to or you try to reach out to if you don't get too tied up into the day.
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And when somebody gets a message on Thanksgiving, they're thankful for that message, obviously.
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But if you really think about it, you're like you know what.
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I'm really happy that somebody was slowed down and they were thinking about things and they realized I need to reach out to him and say thank you, Right, and to say I appreciate you, I'm thankful for you.
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You don't have that kind of heartfelt message, but it really catches people off guard.
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If you can do it a day or two before the prescribed day to do those things, Does that make sense to you guys?
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Like before the hallmark opportunity right Before, like hey, everybody's texting on this day.
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You know, get ahead of it.
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And that's where the surprise is.
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And if you can make it genuine and heartfelt, then I think it just sets the tone.
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And here's the truth, y'all If you're spreading positivity, even if it's a small level of positive, even if it's just a simple thank you, a heartfelt message saying I appreciate you, I like you, I got you that whole type of scenario Just by being positive, you're going to get a positive message back first off.
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So you know, positive sent is positive multiplied.
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The more positivity you put in this world, the more you get back.
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And you're not going to get a message or send a message to somebody that says hey, man, I really appreciate you being in my life, I'm grateful for you, I'm thankful for you, Hope you have a great Thanksgiving.
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You're not going to get a text message back that says, hey, uh, yeah, go after yourself.
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You know what I mean.
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You're going to get a nice positive one back.
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So at the end of the day, if you send two, three, 25 messages over at Shiver, you're going to get two, three, 25 messages back.
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You understand what I'm saying.
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That's a big ball of positivity and that's one heck of a way to build up a nice positive energy, just aura, around yourself going into the holiday.
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I know Thanksgiving can be tough for some folks.
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This year is going to be my second Thanksgiving without my dad and that can be just a disappointing, sad type of situation.
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To sit down at that table and experience one of those big holiday meals without my dad, that's a tough thing to do.
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Big holiday meals without my dad, that's a tough thing to do.
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So if I can create a bunch of positivity going into that day, then it just builds my immune system right.
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It builds my defense mechanisms.
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When I'm oozing with positivity I can better handle some of the negativity.
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Maybe you're going to be saddling up at that family table and Aunt Rose is a real bitch.
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She's going to call out and criticize you for all the things that you did and didn't do.
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So build up that positivity, get ahead of it.
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Get that thank you bomb sent out today.
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If you can Surprise some people, okay, Send some surprises y'all.
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But that's not what I'm here to do today, because for the past four years that's what we've been doing, that's the messages we've been sending and I'm proud of that message.
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I came up with that thank you bomb.
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I don't remember where the hell that, how that hit me and what exactly went into it, but I'm proud of it and I want to keep that tradition rolling and I know some of you continue to keep that rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling and I'm proud of that.
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But this year I said for the loyal ones, for the day ones, let's think of something different.
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Let's really dig into the weeds a little bit here.
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Let's uncover, discover, peel back the sheets, core out the onion.
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You know what I mean.
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We're going to get to the center of it.
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We're going to figure this out.
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I wanted to change things up.
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You want to learn more about a thank you bomb?
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Great news, you can find those things at wwwshadestrugglepodcastcom or on all major podcasting platforms, because that's what the hell we do and that's how things go when you have 229 episodes.
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Look at him, oh gosh, aren't we all just so thankful for him being so committed to this show?
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Oh, isn't he just a little blessing?
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Look at him, oh, little biceps and blessings.
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That's what he is he's biceps and blessings.
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I am so thankful, yeah, oh thankful, yes, for him.
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With all this rambling and gambling put out there on the table, let's get down to the meat and bananas.
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That's right, meat and bananas.
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I was doing some research, trying to think of a creative thing for us to explore Today.
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I found a well-written, informative, creative, fun little exercise to count our blessings.
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Yes, you're all so blessed, you're probably tired of being blessed.
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That's what we're going to be talking about today.
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My search for Inspirado led me to the National Christian Foundation.
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Little pop quiz, a thankful test for your Thanksgiving table.
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That's right.
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I mean, who are we kidding?
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There's nothing like a little Winnie Wednesday holiday pop quiz, am I right?
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We all love a good pop quiz?
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Well, maybe we don't, but you're going to deal with it today.
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All right, everybody's doing it.
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It's family.
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This is what happens.
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We do lots of dumb stuff.
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That was a Tommy Boy reference for anybody, because this test isn't dumb.
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This test is enlightening.
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Okay, that's the way I'm going to describe it.
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We're going to hit ourselves up with a little thankful test for our Thanksgiving tables today, courtesy of the National Christian Foundation.
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This comes down to the premise of how often do you say thankful, or how often do you use words like blessed and grateful in the research here from the um uh national christian foundation.
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I should have wrote down the actual author's name here, but I I'm not that good at research so I didn't do it.
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Okay, I'm not that prepared, all right, just you know, forgive me, forgive me.
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Okay, forgive me.
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What the researcher had mentioned was that he took a test on Facebook actually that revealed how often he says certain things.
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I think the way he described it was he did a test on Facebook to identify the top like five most used words on his Facebook page and that's pretty cool.
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But I'm not that smart Shocker.
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But I kind of asked myself those questions what are some of the things that I always say, that I commonly repeat, and of those things, if we had to identify the top five or 10 words or terms that we say every day?
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I know some of you right now are saying that boy over there, he says y'all.
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He says y'all way too much.
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That's one of the things.
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But y'all might think, damn it, I'm dead right there, idiot.
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You might assume that I always say blessed, as I'm doing my Trump impersonation, but the truth is I say blessed all the time I work, blessed into my daily routine, all the time I like to count my blessings, I like to feel blessed and I know that's a word that kind of got overused by, like social media right, everybody hashtag blessed, hashtag blessed.
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I hate the fact that, like these hashtags, social media movements kind of dumbed down or lowered the impact of some of our words, because I do feel like the word blessed is a powerful word and if we don't overuse it, then when we hear it we put a whole different layer of importance on it.
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You know what I'm saying when we overuse something, we oversay something, then it doesn't have the same effect.
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Like I've been known to use the F-bomb as a comma, it doesn't always have the same effect when it's applied accurately, precisely, in a sentence, as a comma, right.
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But same thing can be said about some of our favorite words.
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But I like to give myself credit and say, if I was going to identify five or 10 words that I commonly go to, I do feel like blessed is one of them.
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How often do I say things like thankful?
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How often do I say things like grateful?
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Because if you're saying those things, then you're thinking those things and then you're believing those things and you're living those things.
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Do you understand what I'm saying, because we were just talking about this with our thank you bombs.
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When you put positive out, you get positive back.
