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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This article originally published Nov. 24, 2015.  With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I wanted to share with you 20 quotes that really help put into perspective the power and importance of being thankful more of the time and not just on one particular day out of the year. https://www.tausiinsider.com/20-quotes-on-the-importance-of-thankfulness-and-gratitude/?feed_id=333092&_unique_id=6473e48a5272d

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This column originally published on Nov. 26, 2014. Shutterstock Thanksgiving comes around once a year, but what if we adopted the mindset that every day was Thanksgiving and were intentional about the people and things in our lives that we're thankful for? https://www.tausiinsider.com/why-you-should-treat-every-day-like-thanksgiving/?feed_id=332864&_unique_id=6465ca2b4b58a

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland testifies at the Public Order Emergency Commission at the Library and Archives building in Ottawa on Nov., 24. Spencer Colby/Tausi Insider David Moscrop is a writer and political commentator. He is the author of Too Dumb for Democracy and a new Substack newsletter . As the Public Order Emergency Commission moves on to its next phase – expert roundtable discussions ahead of tabling its findings in the House of Commons in February – observers are still working to make sense of the endless angles of the thing. But one has come into sharp relief during the hours of testimony before commissioner Paul Rouleau: It was at least partly about the economy. Of course it was. We can debate what “partly” means. But the answer will depend on whose perspective you’re interrogating. During his testimony on the last day of the commission, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said economic concerns contributed to the decision to invoke the Emerg...

Photo : Bits And Splits ( Shutterstock ) The season of giving can be…a lot. As much as you want to do all the things (buy all the presents, go to all the light displays, attend all the parties), if you do, you risk burn out . In addition, you are likely doing a lot of things for others, often, ( but not always) if you are a female. “Human-g iver s yndrome,” a term coined by Amelia and Emily Nagowski in their life-changing book, Burnout , is a subset of burnout you are particularly susceptible to this time of year. Here’s how to spot it and avoid it so you can enjoy your family and friends without exhausting yourself in the process. How does giving cause burn out? Doing unto others is good, of course, but constant caretaking and giving of yourself is a recipe for burnout. The problem is when people think that helping others is a way to move through their stress cycle. Instead of taking care of themselves, you’re taking care of everyone else to your own detriment . You’re helping...

Photo : Duet PandG ( Shutterstock ) If you have big aspirations for 2023—a big deadlift, a marathon, a change in the size of your body—I sure hope you haven’t translated them into the limited, pass-fail box-checking of a SMART goal. But I do hope that you’ve made yourself some SMART goals to guide you through the process. Let me explain. Why SMART goals are different from Dream Goals SMART goals have long been heralded as a goal- setting life hack, but the truth is that they were invented for mangers to set quotas and such for their companies (the original “A” stood for “assignable,” as in, to an employee). A SMART goal, as it’s talked about it the fitness world today, is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Put together, this means you set a deadline by which time you expect to achieve a specific measurement of an outcome. In other words, you’ve turned it into a pass-fail test. And because you wouldn’t want to fail that pass-fail test, creating a proper...