Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing yourself and your business.

Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian Bafini.

Well, top of the morning, Tia, and welcome to the Christmas edition of It's a Good Life.

I want to be the first to wish you a happy Christmas, which is what we say at home.

Merry Christmas. I'm a yank, obviously. I've been in the States now over 38 years. God bless us.

But happy Christmas is the words I always associate with it.

It's one of my favorite times a year,

especially as part of my fate tradition, but also is wrapped up with Christmas for me as the

nostalgia of grown up in Ireland and the memories of that as a kid. Christmas was a very, very special

time. You know, one of the beauties of being raised in an environment we don't have a lot of resources

is that things were special.

You know, if you eat out all the time, and it's funny, like this time of year, I've had

so many business dinners and so on so forth, trying to eat good and whatever else when

now, oh, we're at the restaurant this night, we're at the restaurant that night. And after a while, it starts to lose a little bit of its specialness.

When you eat rich foods, you know, then they stop being rich, you know.

And when you can get whatever you want, whenever you want, it stops being special.

And we, we didn't have very much and you got a few things every year as a kid.

And I always remember, you know, in Ireland, It was always dark early in the mornings and then dark

early in the evening. So we have very little sunlight. We're up much more northerly in the hemisphere

than most people realize. And we always remember in school, you'd go to school in the dark and you'd

come home in the dark. And Christmas was like that. But there was one light and that light was on the

Christmas tree. And we used to

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