Foreign. Hey, it's that time of the year where it's the end of November We start thinking about Turkey and family and football and friendsgivings and I do think a little bit about that stuff, but usually this is the time of the year where I start asking myself different questions. This is the time of the year where I go back and I re-read this book. Have you read this book I Want to see comments Below Have you read this book and if you're listening on the podcast I'm holding up a book called Think and Grow Rich matter of fact just for fun I Just found I have 24 copies of this book. The first 24 people that email Social Team at Tomferry.com Social Team I said that right Courtney Social Team at Tomferry.com I'm going to sign a copy and I'm going to send it to you as a gift, not just because I love you I'm sending it to you because I know when you go back through this book as I do every year and you read through Auto suggestion. you read through specialized knowledge all of the disciplines inside of this book that's made more millionaires they say than any other book ever. I think the Bible probably would beat that one out, but just saying thank you grow Rich So here we are. It's the end of November It's Thanksgiving week as you're listening to this. Depending upon when you're listening and what I wanted to do today is just throw out to you a couple questions. Maybe you know when you're sitting around the fam fam or your friend friends and you're you're talking about. You know what's happening in the world. Wherever you are, you know, interest rates, the economy, you know. Oh my. God What's going to do? What's Elon Musk going to do next? Maybe just maybe. you control the conversation just for a wee bit and you ask a few questions that might just open up a sense of gratitude might just open up for people. Uh, the possibility that their life is infinitely better than maybe the current complaint of the moment, or the fact that they were in traffic yesterday, or that they flew the day before. Thanksgiving And oh my goodness, the airports were busy. Isn't it funny when people complain about like things that are just so obvious I'm not I'm not. You know, judging your friends. And because I got those friends and I have those moments too. I Know this though. whoever controls our emotional state, whoever can generate gratitude by asking themselves better quality questions. These are the men and women that they're the ones that make things happen. The ones that move forward. The ones that are more powerful. We all deal with tragedy. We all deal with upset. We all deal with getting punched in the gut, right? It happens every single day to us. mentally. emotionally it happens. And yet why is it that some of us take the punch and keep moving forward right? We take the, We take the the bad news, We take the the upset and we say okay, let me compartmentalize that. Let me look for a solution for that. Maybe I'll have like a 14 second pity pot party but then I gotta get right back to it. I've always found that if you ask yourself better questions questions like who loves me and who do I love you know when you think about just those two questions like who loves me I'm like oh, you know, like my kids love me, my wife loves me, my parents love me, my stepmom loves me, my stepdad Loves Me Like My Siblings love me I hope for just kidding. If you're watching, right? like you got a lot of people in your life that that really really really really really care for you. and if you just think about the people in your life that love you and think about the people in life that you love, it just kind of changes your emotional state. And by the way, if you're watching this and you're like I've done this before and I sat there and said who loves me no one right? or you know, my puppy or you said okay, my mom loves me but you know if you say it in a way like with your tone with your energy, that is kind of debilitating, kind of negative kind of right. So even sometimes maybe you've got to put your arms in the air and say like who loves me and who do I love questions like that But that's not the dining room table conversation. Here's the kind of questions I would encourage you to ask this: Thanksgiving or at the next friendsgiving or the next dinner party or whenever. Questions like hey, what's been one highlight for this year like when you look back over the last nearly 11 months now? What was just one highlight personally and professionally all of a sudden Now like Courtney Do you have any highlights this year? Oh, that's right, you got Mary That was kind of a highlight. Kelsey Do you have any highlights this year? Yes, But but that's the point. Like people are going to start to talk about magical moments for them personally and professionally and it changes the energy in the room when people start talking about like highlights positive things that occurred right like this happened in my career. This happened to me personally. Like things are moving forward and you see the energy like literally shift in the room. Here's the second question. ready. What's one thing you learned this year that got you to move forward better faster. Etc And people start reflecting on man early on this year I Learned how to use this specific school you know, skill in my work and wow all of a sudden like things got faster, things got better I Produce better quality product, whatever it may be. What about your personal life? Wow. I learned that like I had my blood work done and hummus is bad for me. this is actually true for me. and I was eating hummus like sometimes three times a week and I was like wow I stopped eating hummus and suddenly I felt better. This is not an anti-humus thing, this is a I got my blood work done and discovered what I was allergic to as an example. It was a highlight for me then one of my favorite questions of all time. and I do this as my boys know, usually around the holidays when we're having like our little fam fam dinner. I'll go around. you know it was fun when they were like four and six and it's really fun when they're 21 and 23 now. Where I say just who are you grateful for and why, who are you grateful for and why? And you got to give me an expressive answer and just to go around the table and to hear who they're grateful for, right? What they're grateful for, Why they're grateful for something that person did or something that person said right That really impacted them in a positive way. My point for you just in this short, podcast is not just get a free copy of one of the best books on the planet by emailing social team at Tomferry.com only the first 24. It's more about controlling your emotional state. It's about truly being in a state of gratitude. And can you do that in the U.S With chaos in the economy, a looming recession, interest rates in the sixes real estate Trend Can you do that? Of course you can. Matter of fact, I would even make the argument that you have to be in a better State Because if you meet someone that really wants to do some business and you are emotionally and mentally an energy sucking vampire, they will find another choice. They will find another solution. So it's not just a Thanksgiving end of: November Let's get the right mindset. Let's think and grow a rich conversation. It's really just remembering that you are extraordinary, not ordinary, and that it's time for you to keep stepping up your mental toughness, your gratitude, and your mindset. Short message: Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving If you're in the U.S And for all my friends around the world, keep up the great work. Keep your mindset right And I hope you get a copy of the book. Alright, see you soon, Foreign.