Number two on the list of top things to be thankful for as an entrepreneur is getting invited to cool parties, and number three is meeting incredible people. This is real. I'm not making this up. I got invited to the Star Wars world premiere and sat next to Tony Robbins. Have a great weekend.

I am thankful for you, you great loyal listeners. The station is thankful also for you, listening 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and thank you to our great sponsors and advertisers. From all of us, Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Number 23 on my list is that, as an entrepreneur or business owner, you get to use everything in your basket. It's the best way to use all of the assets that you were given. Jobs just don't do that. Be an entrepreneur and use every skill set that you have. More tomorrow.

Number 22 on the list. Entrepreneurs and small businesses are leading the fight against misogyny, ageism, sexism, and racism. It's a much more level playing field where consumers read reviews and check out the level of service, not personal details about the owner. It's a great way of transcending all of the isms and just making some money.

I'll share more of the list tomorrow.

For the beginning of this week, we should be thinking about the things that we are grateful for. There's the obvious stereotypical good health and family and friends, but let's take it a step further. What are some of the business reasons we are happy to be here in the United States? I made a list of 50. It's on the radio website. I'll share some of the preview with you in just a second.

So the list, Top 50 Reasons to Be Thankful as a Business Owner or an Entrepreneur, number 12 on the list: you get to build something that lasts longer than you and is perhaps greater than you. I love writing a book and putting stories in it that my children or grandchildren could read 50 or 100 years from now, or building a business that has an impact on many people's lives or tomorrow.

Rest and sleep. Successful entrepreneurs plan in their sleep time, plan in their vacation time, and they take it religiously because they understand how important rest is to success. If you don't have downtime, eventually you will crash.

The media loves to point to the flashy tech entrepreneurs, but in fact, most of the rich do boring things that add up slowly over time, in the paving business or the pantyhose business, things like that. Slow, boring, consistent earners over time.

Successful serial entrepreneurs do one thing more differently than anyone else, and that is borrowing things. That's right, great entrepreneurs see business ideas all around them. They figure out how to make them a little bit better and steal the original idea. Of course, they don't steal any copyrights, trademarks, or patents. But great entrepreneurs are always looking for ideas to copy and improve. Picasso said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

Entrepreneurs embrace rejection because they learn from it. Each data point is a new way to improve and try better next time, and to persevere and fight on. Remember what Thomas Edison said about the light bulb: he had to have 1,000 rejections before one yes.

I think we can all agree that successful entrepreneurs do something differently. There's just something different about their mind, their actions, their beliefs that allows them to be so very successful. This week, we're going to go through five of those things and discuss things that successful entrepreneurs do differently.

You may think that successful entrepreneurs love goals. They do, but they're more obsessed with systems, both systems in their life and systems in their business. In their life, they design daily rituals that make results inevitable, and in their business, they love the systems that automate things and make it possible for the business to run without them there all of the time. Successful entrepreneurs love systems.