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Here's your success mentor, Daring Hardy.

Hello there my friends, this is Daring Hardy.

If you read the compound effect, you know that today is my favorite day of the year.

Of course, here in the United States, it's Thanksgiving Day, where we get together with

loved ones, we share traditions, comfort food, and companionship.

No awkward gift giving, pressure, or gift receiving guilt, just food, family, and fun.

It is the best.

It is also, and most importantly, about what the namesake implies, thanksgiving.

This is something I take very seriously.

There are many places where I draw my personal motivation.

The motivation that I need to carry the light of success, hope, and abundance around the

world, particularly in a world that is often, if you watch Wolf Blitzer, portrayed as

dark, dismal, and scarce, whether you know it or not, you are one of my greatest sources

of inspiration.

You remember the story I told about spending the day with Maria Shriver, who at the time

was that we put her on the cover of Success Magazine, she was the first lady of California.

So I asked her for her definition of success, and it was her answer that surprised me and

challenged me to try to figure out my real definition, you know, not the one for the magazine,

we had to find that, but the one for me personally.

So I went home and I grabbed a journal and glass of wine and sat right here in my backyard,

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