The Daily Helping

Welcome to our second annual Veterans Day special, where we feature a really amazing Veteran with an incredible story - and a nonprofit as well, where we can help veterans who may be in crisis.

Amanda E. Held is an equine specialist facilitator, lifelong equestrian, and veteran with seventeen combined years of service in the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard.

She is passionate about helping people shift their perception to live a life of radical appreciation. Amanda’s seeks to travel and teach her process to heal those who are suffering from PTSD (post traumatic stress syndrome). Her work benefits clients on both personal and professional levels, and allows them to create a life of passion, purpose, and inspiration for themselves.

Amanda is the founder of H.O.O.V.E.S. (Healing of Our Veterans through Equine Assisted Services). H.O.O.V.E.S. believes that Experiential Training makes a difference for veterans, and that Equine Assisted Learning can greatly impact our service men and women. Through transformational workshops, our team works tirelessly to provide this much needed support to our service men and women.

“Our small, nonverbal body language is attached to our subconscious. Horses have the ability to read those traits and display them back to you. So you’re going to get a clear read on what you put out to the world, with an opportunity to make real-time shifts and change that.”

The three pillars of H.O.O.V.E.S (Healing of Our Veterans through Equine Assisted Services):

• The Initial Three-Day Retreat: Veterans have a chance to leave their current environment to spend three days among fellow veterans and rescued horses to work through trauma and create a personal mission statement to take with them out into the world.
• Community: Every month, veterans complete a service project
• Ongoing Support: Veterans return monthly to continue the process.

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“If you feel like you’re the only one going through this, you’re not. I promise you’re not. The first step to healing is accepting where you’re at, and understanding that you’re not alone and you can not get through it alone. Nobody can get through this alone. I encourage everyone to get a mentor, get a coach, get a therapist, whatever you need; there’s always going to be someone just a little further along than you who can help you get there.”

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Resources:

• H.O.O.V.E.S. (Healing of Our Veterans through Equine Services)
• H.O.O.V.E.S. on Facebook
• H.O.O.V.E.S. on Twitter: @hoovesforvets
• Amanda Held on LinkedIn
• Dr. John DeMartini, Behavioral Specialist

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I’m really grateful for all of the guests that come on our show, but the individual that you’re about to hear today is somebody that I have been really excited about, and trying to get on this show for over two years. I’m so honored to have him with us today.

John O’Leary is a #1 national bestselling author and speaker. He inspires over 75,000 people at over 100 events each year. He speaks to companies and organizations across industries such as sales, healthcare, business safety, marketing, financial services, faith, education, and insurance.

One of the things that John has also done is created his first book, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life. This was an instant #1 bestseller. Over 120,000 copies have been sold, and it’s been translated into twelve languages. His Live Inspired podcast ranks in the top 20 on iTunes, and his online community is over 200,000 strong.

You’ll notice that I didn’t mention anything about John’s background within this introduction; that’s because his story is so powerful that I can’t wait for you to hear it yourself from him.

“Discover what your life is ultimately about, and what really matters, and then you encourage and guide and shepherd as many other people as possible to climb, to rise, and to cross that bridge with you.”

John’s major tip to radically improve your life: shift from being a victim to being a victor.

     Ask yourself this question every morning: “why me?” Instead of asking it as a victim to the circumstance, ask it as a victor over it, and it will influence the way you view your life . It will transform what you think, how you feel, the actions you take, and the results you get.

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You are worthy. Your life, your profession, your retirement - you are worthy. Start there. Act like it. You have a future that is even bigger and better than you can fathom right now. Open your eyes, your mind, and your heart a little bit more to that possibility. Have a little bit of faith. Children have it naturally, and we start to lose it. Grab onto that possibility that is robustly and vibrantly still present within you and in front of you. Be intentional. Ask questions like, “why me,” in the morning, before you start your day. Ask a question like, “what more can I do,” at the end of each day to make tomorrow even better than today. Lastly: have a mission that guides you forward toward something bigger than yourself. With a compelling enough “why,” not only can you move through fire, but you can climb mountains, you can overcome the insurmountable, and you can free countless individuals to do likewise in their own lives.

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Resources:

• www.JohnOLearyInspires.com
• Listen to John’s Top 20 podcast, Live Inspired
• Read John’s bestselling book, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
• John O'Leary on Facebook
• John O'Leary on LinkedIn
• John O'Leary on Twitter: @JOLearyInspires
• John O'Leary on Instagram: @johnoleary.inspires
• John O'Leary on Pinterest
• John O'Leary on YouTube

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Celebrity nutrition and fitness expert JJ Virgin teaches clients how to lose weight and master their mindset so they can lead bigger, better lives.

Ms. Virgin is a four-time NY Times bestselling author whose work usually focuses on nutrition and fitness but recently took a turn for the personal: her newest release, Warrior Mom, chronicles the strength, positivity, and growth that JJ experienced after her son Grant was the victim of a brutal hit-and-run accident.

JJ hosts the popular JJ Virgin Lifestyle Show podcast and regularly writes for Huffington Post, Rodale Wellness, Mind Body Green, and other major blogs and magazines.

In addition to her work with nutrition and fitness, JJ is also a business coach and founded the premier health entrepreneur event and community, The Mindshare Summit.

JJ’s published works include: Miracle Mindset, The Virgin Diet, The Sugar Impact Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, The Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook, One Pot Meals, JJ Virgin’s Easy, Low-Sugar, Allergy-Free Smoothies, Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy, and Warrior Mom: 7 Secrets to Bold, Brave Resilience. She also co-authored the immensely popular The Bulletproof Diet: Lose up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life with Dave Asprey.

“I realized: the only way I’m gonna be able to pull this off, and handle this level of stress, is to put my health and self-care before everything else.”

But how can we make the time to follow through on those important health changes?

• “If you don’t have the time, find it.”
• Look at it like a series of habit shifts (don’t try to change too many things at once).
• Hire a coach. Commit with your time and your wallet.
• Surround yourself with a supportive community of people who are positive, focused, and healthy.

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So often, we’ll look at challenging situations and wish they weren’t happening, or wish they were easier, not realizing that it is that journey and how you show up that is going to define who you are and make you an even better version of yourself. Don’t wish it was easier; make yourself stronger. You are stronger than you think. 

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Resources:

• www.JJVirgin.com
• Listen to JJ’s podcast
• Read all of New York Times Bestselling Author JJ Virgin’s books HERE
• JJ Virgin on Facebook
• JJ Virgin on Twitter: @jjvirgin
• JJ Virgin on Instagram: @jj.virgin
• JJ Virgin on Pinterest
• JJ Virgin on YouTube

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Today we’re talking with Rocky Lalvani. He is a wealth coach, he has his MBA, and is an enrolled agent at the IRS. He helps people who have financial success utilize their money to live a life of abundance, but not in the typical ways that you would expect from your run of the mill financial planner.

He is the millionaire-next-door. He started out with basically nothing when his parents came to the United States, when he was two years old and his dad was forty-two. It was his parents’ second big move in their lives; they were starting over to create that American Dream.

Rocky talks to people all over the world about helping them achieve their success faster than they could have otherwise. His viewpoint on financial success is so interesting. I can’t wait to share him with you.

“You have to be intentional throughout your whole life, saying “what do I want,” “how do I finance this,” and “how does my money support the life I want to live?””

In today’s episode, Rocky discusses a few important elements of true financial success:

• Find your purpose. Very often, we don’t know what we’re an expert in, because it’s so natural to us that we don’t even think twice about it. Explore this with the people around you; what do THEY see as your expertise?
• Intentionally manage your TIME, MONEY, and HEALTH. Without health, nothing else matters.
• Build great relationships; utilize advice from those who have gone before you.
• Maintain some kind of connection to the universe, whatever that means for you.
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The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Leap with a parachute. What I mean by that is, go try something new, but don’t go do something that’s going to cause disaster in the rest of your life. And whatever that is, just take small steps, every day, to take a leap forward. Maybe it’s a meeting with someone to learn about a new area that you’re interested in. Maybe it’s going to a conference that is in a topic that you’d like to learn more about. Maybe it’s reading a book. Maybe it’s learning a new skill. Constantly leap, try new things, but minimize the risk. Don’t go out and buy a big apartment building when you’re just breaking into real estate, mortgaging your house and your entire future. Do things in small steps, and prevent the risks so that you can constantly move forward. Overcome your fears, and as you build up your muscles in doing things, the fear goes away, and you get confidence, and confidence in one area of your life crosses over to every other area of your life.”

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Resources:

• www.richersoul.com
• Rocky Lalvani on Twitter: @rockylalvani
• Richer Soul on Facebook

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

A viral marriage proposal on Reddit, multiple successful companies, and international travel - and that’s only the beginning.

Originally a neuroscientist focused on brain-computer interface and the evolution of human cognition, whose work is on display at the Smithsonian, Malcolm Collins earned an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. There he met Simone, his wife and co-author, who at the time was director of Marketing at HubPages.com, managing a team of 20,000 freelancers.

Together they co-founded the art commission marketplace ArtCorgi.com, after which Malcolm became Director of Strategy at South Korea's most desired source of early-stage capital, Simone earned her graduate degree from Cambridge while working in venture capital. The couple now runs a number of travel companies (with a focus on Travelmax), splitting their time between North American headquarters in Miami, FL and South American offices in Lima, Peru.

In their new book, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life, Malcolm and Simone Collins encourage the use of applied pragmatic thought--a framework for systematically constructing your own beliefs about the world, leveraging those beliefs to decide who you want to be as a person, and creating the person you want to be.

“Be open-minded. Actively look for signs that you may be wrong.”

Simone’s and Malcolm’s Steps For Self Improvement:

• 1) Form a game-plan. Choose the thing you want to maximize in your life. Decide what matters to you.
• 2) Develop our internal character. What sort of internal character would best execute this game plan, to maximize the thing you think matters most?
• 3) Develop your public figure. Remain open to the discomfort of feeling offended. Grow yourself out of this stage, and this costume, and away from the cast of characters that remind you of who you are now, so that you have the freedom to redesign yourself.

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David:

The emotion of offense is a red flag that you need to pay attention to that and you need to delve into that with a genuinely open mind; they may be correct in this thing that is offending you, or there may be elements of their worldview that can positively augment your own. I think it’s a really important message in our world today, where on college campuses it has become very common to say “this could be offensive to someone, so you’re not allowed to say it. You’re not allowed to share this information.” In reality, if something is offensive that means it needs to be shared a thousand times more than any other piece of information because it means that it’s challenging the way somebody sees the world.

Simone:

To add to that, if you are proven wrong about something, and you change your mind, it’s not a bad thing. You’re not a flip-flopper, you’re not weak-willed. You’re now a better person because you have better information. You’re stronger. And you’re flexible enough to improve, whereas other people just are broken and they can’t. So - get offended, get excited about being offended, and if it turns out you’ve been wrong for years, well that’s fantastic, because now you have better information and you won’t make the same mistakes!

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Resources:

• www.CollinsFamilyVentures.com
• Simone Collins on Twitter: @SimoneHCollins
• Malcolm Collins on Twitter: @CollinsMalcolm
• TravelMax on Twitter: @TravelMax
• ArtCorgi on Twitter: @ArtCorgi
• Click here to order The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life by Malcolm and Simone Collins

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Pete Mockaitis is an award-winning trainer and coach who helps professionals perform optimally at work. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and Ink. He’s delivered one-on-one coaching to over 700 leaders hailing from organizations all over the world - fifty countries, to be exact. Some of these organizations include Google, FedEx, Amazon, Apple, Anheuser-Busch, and The United Nations.

Pete began his career at Bain & Company, and currently hosts the How To Be Awesome At Your Job podcast. His show has been downloaded over three million times, and consistently ranks as a top business show on iTunes. Pete lives with his wife and baby boy in Chicago, Illinois - but today, we’re lucky enough to have him with us.

“When you’re not awesome at your job, people suffer, whether they’re your patients, clients, customers, or coworkers.”

Here are some tips from Pete to improve your career performance right now:

• Communication Skills:
• - Get some video of you communicating (either in a formal presentation, or just participating in a meeting). You’ll probably be shocked at some of the things that you see.

- Make sure you’re involving some vocal variety in your speaking voice (pitch,              pace, and volume).

• Decision-Making Skills:
• - Check out your Amazon order history. Each item represents a decision that you’ve made. Reflect on them. Which do you still feel good about? Which were a mistake?
• Presence/Self Care:
• - Get enough sleep! It’s truly a game-changer.

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“Have a conversation with your boss or manager, and think through some of these big, juicy, meaty, engaging questions like: ‘what’s the biggest headache that you’re dealing with right now, and what can I do to help you out with that? What’s the one thing that you think is so critical that we really do an amazing job with this year? What does quality work mean to you? What are the top things that make you think something is great or disappointing? What are some things I do that upset or annoy you?’ Zero in on your top priorities, and how you’re relating and engaging with your manager; I think it can just open things wide in terms of the opportunities and possibilities that can flow from that. And suddenly, lo and behold, you’re that person’s favorite employee, and new opportunities and fun can emerge from that.”

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Resources:

• www.AwesomeAtYourJob.com
• Pete Mockaitis on Twitter: @PeteAwe
• Pete Mockaitis on Facebook
• Pete Mockaitis on LinkedIn

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Jessica Pettitt is a diversity trainer and motivational speaker committed to leading listeners down the path to understanding they are good enough to make the changes they seek.

She believes that if we notice our own behavior patterns, then we can keep the ones that we like, and focus on the ones that we want to change. Jessica guides audiences through this process through a lens of compassion, inclusivity, and kindness.

“What if what you currently have now is actually enough? Might not be perfect, but what if it’s enough?”

Jessica suggests that each of us possesses qualities related to the following three major archetypal figures: Ghandi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr. At any given time, we may exhibit traits from one of the three more heavily.

• Ghandi -
• - action oriented (not exercise, but simply the doing of things)
• - can be very egocentric and difficult to work with
• - doesn’t play well with others, doesn’t like to collaborate
• - his biggest initial stumbling block: at first, his work wasn’t connected to anything larger
• Mother Teresa -
• - head (detail oriented) / heart (connected to a larger idea) oriented
• - constantly questioning the will of God
• - slower to make decisions
• - her breakthrough came when she realized that she had (and began utilizing) the resources to build a school
• Martin Luther King Jr. -
• - heart (connected to a larger idea) oriented; literally had a dream, not a plan
• - dependent upon a network of supportive figures carrying out the logistics
• - his biggest initial stumbling block: he needed to find a way to connect with a tangible system, rather than ethereal ideas, to get his revolution going.

I truly can’t wait for you to experience my conversation with Jessica.

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“Do the best you can with what you already have, some of the time, and it’ll make all the difference in the world. “

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Freebies from Jessica’s website:

Resources:

• www.goodenoughnow.com
• Freebies from Jessica’s website: www.goodenoughnow.com/freebies
• Click here to purchase Jessica’s book, Good Enough Now
• Jessica Pettitt on Facebook
• Jessica Pettitt on Twitter: @jesspettitt
• Jessica Pettitt on YouTube
• Jessica Pettitt on LinkedIn

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Today’s guest is on a mission to inspire healthy living around the world while embracing the strength it took to get her to where she is today.

Megan Fenyoe, is a Veteran, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Transformational Mindset Coach, Professional Speaker and Author. She is also the CEO of Mission Strength.

A few years ago, Megan experienced enormously taxing personal trauma, forcing her to develop and utilize skills in the moment to navigate the tough moments with grace and strength. In today’s episode, she passes them on to you.

“You are enough, just as you are, in whatever season you’re in, and the more you celebrate and focus on that, the more you will live in your strength.”

Megan’s Steps to Believing You’re Enough:

• Step 1: discovering yourself. Dive deep into discovering who you are and what you want.

• Step 2: visualizing your passion and purpose. Visualize the details and specifics of the life you want.
• Step 3: grounding yourself. Learn coping skills in order to ground yourself from the negative thoughts, feelings, and limiting self-beliefs that are keeping you stuck.

• Step 4: developing your strength plan. Create a routine, utilizing time management, self-care, and goal planning. Write it down.
• Step 5: strengthening your healthy habits. Sometimes you’ll get complacent; remind yourself of all of the beneficial tools you’ve gained in steps one through four. Remain focused.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are enough, just as you are, in whatever season you’re in, and the more you celebrate and focus on that, the more you will live in your strength.”

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Resources:

• Mission Strength
• Mission Strength on Twitter: @missionstrongSD
• Megan Fenyoe on Instagram: @megan.fenyoe
• Megan Fenyoe on LinkedIn
• Click HERE for Megan’s book, You Are Enough

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Today’s guest, Ron Carucci, is a two-time TedX speaker, the bestselling author of eight books, and a popular contributor at Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Ron led a ten year longitudinal study on executive transition to find out why more than fifty percent of leaders fail within their first eighteen months of appointment. During this study, Ron uncovered four differentiating capabilities that set leaders apart, and these findings are highlighted in his groundbreaking, Amazon #1 bestselling book, Rising to Power, co authored with Eric Hansen.

Ron Carucci is also the cofounder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership.

In addition to his regular contributions at Harvard Business Review and Forbes, Ron has also been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Business Insider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and Thought Leaders. We feel incredibly lucky to have him here with us today, teaching us unbelievably valuable and inspiring ways to succeed in leadership.

“Hiding behind anything is not only not safe, it’s one of the most dangerous places to be in a community, because it means you’re alone. The most powerful place you can be is exposed, is vulnerable, is out in the open, where people can see you for all your goodness and all your flaws, because that’s where people give you the greatest amount of support, that’s where people will trust you, that’s where people will come and have your back when you need them.”

Ron’s Four Biggest Leadership Tips:

• 1: Context - look around you and be aware of what’s actually happening. Be curious. Understand that your environment has as much to change in you as you have to change in it. When you enter the story, the story has a history before you; study it. Be curious. Adapt accordingly.
• 2: Breadth - As organizations and communities get bigger, people pull apart further into their own camps. In order to have any kind of lasting impact, you have to create cohesion, you have to stitch the seams that naturally appear between people.
• 3: Connection - Prioritize your network, not based on who you can get something from, but who you can help succeed. Our greatest connections happen when people believe that we have their back.
• 4: Choice - So often in life, we’re so interested in pleasing people and making sure that other people like us, that we dole out way too many “yes”es. Entrepreneurs especially know how hard it is to say “no.” But too many yeses means that you’ve diluted the focus of a community, you’ve diluted resources, you’ve confused people, you’ve created competing priorities. Don’t be afraid to narrow the focus.

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My mentor said to me many, many years ago as I began my career: “nothing in life is irrevocable except death.” At a time in our careers and in our lives where we spend too much time wondering, second-guessing fear and failure, worrying about skinning our knees, apprehensive and second-guessing our own ambitions and desires ... I wish I had not done that. I wish I had been more courageous and less anxious about trying things.

She always says to her students, “your career is not about a linear path. Your career is not some predictable upward climb on a ladder. Your career is about going through open doors when they’re open. And if you never go through the open door, you’ll never know. And if you go through the open door and it winds up being not what you thought, find another open door. But you’ve got to stay open to the world around you, and try, and not worry so much about skinning your knees.

Life gives you do-overs. There are some very critical things for which there really is only one shot, but those are far more rare than we think they are. If we allow ourselves those do-overs, we’ll try things more courageously and more joyfully.”

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Resources:

• Ron Carucci on Twitter: @RonCarucci
• Ron Carucci on LinkedIn
• Get Ron Carucci’s entire catalogue of books HERE
• Ron Carucci’s Contributor Page on Forbes
• Ron’s Ted Talk 2017: How to Be More Powerful Than Powerless
• Ron’s Ted Talk 2018: The Secret to Having Influence
• Navelent on Twitter: @Navalent

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

John Israel, AKA Mr. Thank You, is on a mission to elevate the level of gratitude on the planet, inspiring 74 million thank-you cards written all over the world.

This all started one morning back in October of 2016, when John woke up to realize that he was, in his own words, “a gratitude salesman who wasn’t very grateful.” John decided to do everything within his power to live a more authentic life, and explore his capacity to experience and express gratitude.

So John writing 5 thank-you cards a day, every day, for a year. The mission transformed his life, family, community, and businesses. His story has been featured on ABC News, Fox News, Popsugar, MarthaStewart.com, and Good Morning America.

Professionally, John is a corporate gifting consultant, where he helps companies and businesses retain clients and appreciate referral partners through high-quality gifts.

John now speaks at business and organizational conferences where he shares his story and inspires people to make gratitude a habit in their lives.

Most recently, John launched his book, The Mr. Thank You Project: A Journey To Elevate The Level Of Gratitude On The Planet, One Card At A Time.

“When do I not want to be grateful, and how can I bring gratitude to that experience?”

In today’s episode, John will expand upon the following thoughts:

• Do all you can to work on your ability to be present in the moment; this makes it possible to notice the gifts right in front of you.
• Gratitude can help you learn to deal with and process your emotions more quickly and effectively, so you can move into a state where you can be your best self.
• If you can say thank you to someone, do it right away. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed; tell them today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“About a month after beginning the Mr. Thank You project, I got a call from my best friend. We had known each other for years, and his parents were practically like my parents. Unfortunately, my friend was calling to tell me that his father had passed away. Not good news, right? No one likes to hear that. What made it worse, though, was that on my desk, sitting in front of me while my friend had called me was a thank-you card that I had written to his dad but had failed to send because i had gotten “too busy.” It was such a powerful experience, and while I’m not happy that it happened, I’m grateful to have had the experience early on in the Thank You project because what I saw was an urgency to let people know what they mean to me. An urgency to tell people how much they matter. An urgency to forgive people, to ask for forgiveness, to heal relationships, because at the end of someone’s life, one of the most common things that is expressed as a regret is what wasn’t said, conversations they wish they’d had, someone they wish they had forgiven, or what they wish they had expressed.

“By making something like this project a habit, making gratitude a habit, sharing with people what you love about them, you don’t have to have that regret at the end of your life, because you’ve said everything that you need to say.

“And people ask, ‘what’s the biggest takeaway for this experience for you?’ And my answer is: ‘I said it. I’ve said what I need to say to people. I have no regrets in any of my relationships because I got to complete them. And that is immeasurably valuable.’

If you can say thank you to someone, you should do it. Not tomorrow, but today.”

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Resources:

• Connect with John online at www.MrThankYou.com
• Read his new book, The Mr. Thank You Project
• Hear more about John’s story at his blog: www.JohnIzzy.com
• Twitter: @themrthankyou
• Experience John’s Ted Talk

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