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Hey, welcome to the podcast. I'm Mike Bro, and so grateful that you tuned in today. And man, I hope you

had a great Thanksgiving day yesterday. While we gather with a bunch,

I mean a bunch, like triple digits of family members and families of friends, and we had a lot of

fun. And I hope you slowed down yesterday and started counting all the ways God has blessed

your life. I mean, just making that a regular daily practice really is attitude and life-changing.

So let me just give you one last thing today as you are counting your blessings.

Start to share the joy. Count your blessings and share the joy. You ever notice how a negative,

you know, Debbie Downer kind of person just sucks the life out of a room? Negativity, cynicism,

ingratitude is contagious.

But so is joy, and so is gratitude, and so is laughter.

My wife, Debbie, is one of the most contagiously joyful people you will ever meet.

She giggles through life, and anybody that knows her will tell you the same thing.

She changes the environment of any room. She makes our family fun. She makes anybody feel at home. Why? Because she's taking

an HGTV course on how to make your home more inviting? Nope. She's super outgoing and charismatic?

Nope. Because she's grateful. It's because she's grateful. Let me say it again. It's not joy

that makes us grateful. It's gratitude that makes us joyful. My sons took a road trip up the coast

of California to Monterey, and they drove that 17-mile drive back down the Pacific Coast Highway,

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