You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast episode number 97. Today we're sharing our

2021 goals and some strategies for beating the winter blues. Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged.

I'm your host, Sherry, and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family

as we travel the world creating cruise videos and vlogs. In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics,

and strategies to help you make every cruise your dream cruise. Wow, 2021. It's here. I know a lot of people are looking forward to it.

Do you feel like this is a clean slate? Do you feel like it's a start over fresh?

I don't yet. I feel like the future of 2021 is going to bring great possibility, but I feel like

we're in the thick of some difficulty

right now. I agree. And I don't look at it that way. I think of more of a marker, you know, a checkpoint,

someplace to maybe look back and say, okay, how do we make the best of this? Instead of saying,

it's all going to be better now, how can we make the best of this? How can we

appreciate what we do have? Well, we certainly have had a lot of practice working on that for

the last 10 months, haven't we? Practice makes perfect. It really does. But yeah, we're going to,

well, first of all, everyone, happy new year, happy 2021. And we just want to say thank you so very much to all of you for, I don't,

there's so many words I could use to describe what you have done for us, for supporting us,

for keeping your subscription to our YouTube channel, for the kind reviews that you write on iTunes,

for the countless messages that you have sent us, direct messages,

emails, the words of encouragement when we had, you know, a lot of our work and livelihood

ripped out from under us in March. And yet we have grown our community this year. And that's

something we're going to talk a little bit about today is finding such deep gratitude

during difficulty.

It's something that we've been working on in our home for the last week, and it has been

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