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Happy Tuesday, everybody.

Hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend.

Amy here, and I am the host of this, the fifth thing, which is the Q&A and email episode

for the Four Things podcast. So you send stuff in to Four Things

with Amy Brown at gmail.com. And then I go through the emails and I share questions and then I

answer them or maybe I share an email that I think could be inspiring to you, which that's what

I'm going to start off with today.

I normally start Tuesday episodes off with a quote, but the first email I'm going to share is a

little bit of a short story in itself, so similar to some of the quotes that I share, but

longer. And so I'm just going to start with this one. It comes from Brooke. She said to me, hey, Amy, I love how much you focus on

gratitude. It is always something I'm trying to get better at. I found this story online and wanted to

share it with you. Here's the story. A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his

feet. He held up a sign which read, I'm blind. Please help. There were only a few coins in the hat, spare change from folks who hurried past. As a man walked by, he took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. Then he put the sign back in the boy's hand so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up.

A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.

That afternoon, the man who had changed the sign returned to see how things were.

The boy recognized his footsteps and asked,

Were you the one who changed my sign this morning?

What did you write? The man said, I only wrote the truth. I said, were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?

The man said, I only wrote the truth. I said, what you said, but in a different way. I wrote,

Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it. Both signs spoke the truth, but the first sign

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