Hello and happy Fourth of July or technically third of July.

And if you're not in the US, the scoop is the fourth of July is when

Americans celebrate the ratification of the Declaration of Independence,

which made us become our own independent nation. So there's fireworks. There's barbecues.

There's fun and often the day off of work. And so we're having a day off of the episode

this Monday. But I would encourage you if you were thinking, oh, I wanted to listen to how to be

awesome at your job today while I was driving to pick up some delicious meats or whatnot.

I'd encourage you to check out some other great episodes for declaring independence.

Like our last one, 878 Vanessa Patrick, talk it about how to say no effectively,

declare some independence from stuff that need not be done when you effectively decode that

ask and see if it really is sensible for you to do it. And how to say no without feeling guilty,

preserve the relationship, check that one out. And then going back a little farther,

Ethan Cross on episode 683 helps you declare independence from chatter,

ruminations, incessant head talking, which really accomplishes little, but stresses and exhausts us.

Ethan Cross has some great tools there. And they're a lot of fun. Again, that full title is

at number 683, how to break free from negative self-talk and chatter with Ethan Cross.

And then going back even further, episode 267, we got Tara Moore and she is such a delight.

She helps you declare independence from self-doubt. That whole title there is Episode 267,

managing self-doubt to tackle bigger challenges with Tara Moore. And you can also find that

in Episode A and the samplers right after Episode 0000 at the very beginning of the feed or

sort of by the oldest episodes first, if you will. So those are three episodes to help you

declare independence. If you were Jones and for an episode today and felt disappointed,

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