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Yes, it is holiday season here in the United States—the time to celebrate with family and friends, and reflect upon those things we are most grateful for.  And although countless numbers of you are in so many places throughout the world, I want to take today to be thankful.

So, thank you first of all for meeting with me, for reading what I write to you, for listening to my voice, as I pursue my muse and my muse pursues me, and we all engage in this sometimes awkward, and sometimes hopefully brilliant conversation with each other.

And perhaps we should all say thank you: to our mothers, and to our fathers, and to our brothers and sisters, and to our teachers, and our students, and our employees, and our managers, and all those who have had an impact on the way we live, and the way we work, and the way we survive, and the way we sometimes, hopefully, thankfully, flourish.

And perhaps we should all say thank you to God, to the Higher Power which placed us here on earth, to the energy that flows from the Higher Spheres, down here to earth, up here where we live, by the side of each and every one of us, Who comes to us, to say Grace, to say Breathe, to say Love, to say Strive, to say Invent, to say Heart, to say Soul, and all those other things that have been said to us from He Who is Highest, to we who are lowest, but always, always striving to go higher than we are.

And perhaps as well we should all say thank you to that inner power that we discover on those lucky days when it speaks to us, on those brilliant days when it speaks out to others, on those confounding days even, when its voice appears to confuse us, to bewilder us, to stop us, to seek us out, to define us, to confine us, to inhibit us, to align us.  So, perhaps too should we seek out that voice to say thank you for being there, for coming awake within each and every one of us to invent our lives, to inspire our imagination, to be witty and wise and smart and beautiful and funny, too funny, too, too funny--beyond anything we had ever believed we could stand up and say, and do, and become.

So, thank you all, and thank yourselves.  God Bless you, be humble and well.

Michael E. Gerber has been named by INC magazine as “The World’s #1 Small Business Guru.”  His NY Times Bestselling E-Myth books rank among the top ten business books worldwide for all time.  His Michael E. Gerber Companies have coached, mentored and trained tens of thousands of small business owners in 145 countries to transform the way they work and grow.  His mission is to transform the state of small business worldwide. Read more about Michael Gerber here

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