Jason closes out the year with a reflective episode framed around A Christmas Carol and the question of what your own Christmas story really is. He walks through the year end ritual of reviews, bonuses, taxes, and tax projections, then pivots to the deeper work of remembering why your company, team, family, or project exists in the first place. He shares the recent leadership conversation at Elevate Construction about whether to keep giving away Miro boards and free content, the inspiration that came from praying about it, and the realization that giving really is who Elevate is. He closes with Gordon B. Hinckley's quote reframed for the Elevate philosophy and a charge to focus on becoming rather than having.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why the post Christmas depression goes away when the future inspires you more than the past celebrates

• Patrick Lencioni's thematic goal and defining goals framework for the year ahead

• Dean Graziosi's discipline of asking why seven times to find the real reason your company exists

• How Elevate's purpose ("to build people in construction to build families") shaped a recent giving decision

• Why Gordon B. Hinckley's standing on the summit of your life quote captures the whole goal

• Why becoming beats having, every time, in business and in life

Find your Christmas story. Live it. Stand on the summit of your life one day and look back on a trail of accomplishment, not a slew of wasted energies.

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