This is Happiness Solved with America's Happiness Coach, Sandy Scarlotta.

Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode.

I am so happy you're here.

So you may have noticed the music is a little bit different.

I thought I would change things up a little bit.

So before I introduce today's guest, I want to talk a little bit about gratitude.

So here we are, we're approaching the holidays, 2021 is coming to an end.

Maybe that's a good thing for some people.

I'm always one that gets excited for a new year.

So gratitude is the quickest way to shift your thoughts from maybe negative or stressful

into a positive state.

There's always other people that have worse off circumstances than you do.

So it's, well, it's easy during the holidays because we want everything to be special

for your family.

We want to get the perfect gift for people and things like that.

And you know, this year things may be a little bit different.

As we all know, logistically things are not getting to places the way that we're used

to.

We're not getting that instant gratification many times.

So I just challenge everyone during this holiday season throughout the day is often as

you need to just take a few minutes and focus on everything that you have to be grateful

for because it really does shift your mood, your energy levels, your thoughts because

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