What's up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. This week on Founders Journal, we're doing things a little differently.

We are dropping on many series focused on being your best self. I'm giving you mental models,

strategies and tips to get you in the right mindset before the new year.

That means instead of just one episode Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week we're giving you two.

A new show that you won't want to miss plus a classic episode you maybe haven't heard before.

If you haven't listened to today's classic episode, go back and check it out.

Today I am talking about the power of gratitude as a daily practice. Let's hop into it.

So, I've come to the conclusion that we are really, really good at living life on autopilot.

Working hard day to day, finishing that next project, getting that next promotion,

hitting that new milestone, doing all of these things, and thinking about what's next for us to

achieve. And I know this because I've done this exact thing for as long as I could remember.

In the early days of Morning Brew, I was always told by my family and by seasoned entrepreneurs

that had quote unquote made it. They would say, enjoy the journey, celebrate the little wins,

take pause and appreciate all that you've done. And for the longest time, I was great at

parroting their wishes and telling the world in talks and on Twitter and when advising younger

founders how important appreciation and celebration was. But when push came to shove,

I really didn't practice what I preached. When we want to start up competition on campus,

my co-founder and I got excited for exactly 10 seconds and then we said, what's next?

When we hired our first employee, my co-founder and I got excited for 10 seconds also,

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