Hey, Michael Hyatt here. This week's episode is the gratitude advantage, and it shows the three

surprising benefits of cultivating gratitude in your life. This is an encore episode selected especially

for this week of Thanksgiving. I hope you enjoy it. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving,

and we'll be back next week with another brand new episode. This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by

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achieve them. Find out more at best year ever.me. It's Thanksgiving time here in America, and even though retail me.

It's Thanksgiving time here in America, and even though retailers leap straight from Halloween to Christmas, I love this holiday. Thanksgiving gives us a chance to pause

and count our blessings, something that goes back to the first American Thanksgiving celebrated

in October of 1621.

The new residents of Plymouth Plantation had a lot to be grateful for.

They arrived at Cape Cod 11 months before woefully unprepared.

As historian Nathaniel Philbrook said, by all rights, none of the pilgrims should have emerged from this first winter alive. The pilgrims were

hoping for a climate like the French Riviera. But no, even for the cooler climb, that particular

winter was brutal. In fact, half of them didn't live to see another. They knew plenty about farming, hunting, and fishing, that is if they still lived in England,

but the crops they brought weren't suited for the new soil. Their nets and hooks were the wrong

size for local fish. And while birds filled the Massachusetts skies in the summer, they flew

south for the winter. The mayflower

was supposed to be packed with fish and furs when it returned to England, but instead it sailed

home empty. Unprepared for another winter like that, the pilgrims would have been wiped out.

But that's not what happened. Wampanog Indians took an interest in the foreigners and lent a hand.

They taught the pilgrims how to fish and what would grow.

The gift was a godsend.

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