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\u201cEverything you need is underneath your nose. It\u2019s also in your head and your heart.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

The Frank Capra film\xa0It\u2019s a Wonderful Life\xa0is more than a feel-good holiday classic starring Hollywood icon Jimmy Stewart; it\u2019s main intention is to offer a heaping dose of encouragement to those who are feeling discouraged. In this episode, recorded at Buffini & Company\u2019s MasterMind Summit 2017, Brian Buffini delves into what causes us to feel discouraged from time to time and reveals five encouraging ways to change your perspective and make your life wonderful. You\u2019ll learn how comfort and our society foster feelings of entitlement, the common symptoms of discouragement and the tools you can use to feel more encouraged and optimistic about life. \u2018Tis the season for gratitude and reflection; this episode will help you appreciate what you have and encourage you to find your purpose.

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Inspirational quotes from today\u2019s interview:

\u201cThe purpose of the movie It\u2019s a Wonderful Life is to encourage the discouraged.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cEverything you need is underneath your nose. It\u2019s also in your head and your heart.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cFailure is an event, not a person.\u201d \u2014 Zig Ziglar

\u201cEvery life was designed to do something.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cLife moves pretty fast. If you don\u2019t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.\u201d \u2014 Ferris Bueller

\u201cHappiness doesn\u2019t come as a result of getting something we don\u2019t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.\u201d \u2014 Frederick Koenig

\u201cWe\u2019ve become a culture that\u2019s addicted to comfort and with that comfort comes a sense of entitlement.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cWhen a person can\u2019t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.\u201d \u2014 Viktor Frankl

\u201cYou cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.\u201d \u2014 Abraham Lincoln

\u201cIf you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.\u201d \u2014 Lao Tzu

\u201cThe world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.\u201d \u2014 Heraclitus

\u201cEverything you complain about is something you think you\u2019re entitled to.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cComplaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.\u201d \u2014 Theodore Roosevelt

\u201cWe think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.\u201d \u2014 Blaise Pascal

\u201cDo not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind\u2026\u201d \u2013Romans 12:2

\u201cRenewing your mind is not refreshing your screen.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cA gentle answer turns away wrath but a harsh word stirs up anger.\u201d \u2014 Proverbs 15:1

\u201cDiamond minds; soft hearts.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cIt\u2019s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it\u2019s a depression when you lose yours.\u201d \u2014 Harry S. Truman

\u201cValues are like fingerprints. Nobody\u2019s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.\u201d-Elvis Presley

\u201cWhen you get to the end of yourself, it\u2019s good to have something to believe in.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cThe more you dig, the bigger the diamonds.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cHope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.\u201d \u2014 from\xa0The Shawshank Redemption

\u201cMoney will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.\u201d \u2014 Richard Friedman

\u201cWhen you get exposure, your world gets bigger.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cAs we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.\u201d \u2014 John F. Kennedy

\u201cDo all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.\u201d \u2014 John Wesley

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Mentioned in the episode: The Greatest Gift\xa0by Philip Van Doren Stern

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