Giving thanks is easy on Thanksgiving. However, expressing gratitude all through the year in all circumstances can prove more challenging. 

Here's to being intentional throughout the year in giving thanks. 

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Podcast Transcript:

Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to this Thanksgiving episode of Collab with Kiva. I'm your host, Kiva Slade, and I want to extend a huge happy thanksgiving greeting to all of those in the US who are celebrating Thanksgiving. I am so blessed today to have been able to spend the last few days and a few more days coming up with my husband, our kids, my mom and dad. And it has just been a joy and a treat. And I'm so grateful. I'm seeing our kids again, my parents haven't seen them since August when they left for school. It's just been really wonderful Thanksgiving, just such a blessing. We were able to walk on the beach yesterday, and pick up shells and walk the boardwalk, and just all of those things as a family, Uno games and western movies. So it's just been a really wonderful time. And I know at this time, we spend a lot of time feeling like an extra day to be more intentional with our thinks giving or giving up things. And one of the things that I've realized is that, for me, it's had to be a more intentional act every day. Every day, I look to give things to give thanks continually. In all life circumstances. This year has been an interesting year for me, it's not over yet. But it's definitely been an interesting year, started out the year really going strong in a lot of different areas. And then you know, summer came in, preparing for kids to head off to school, and what those life changes look like turning 50. And what those life changes continue to look like my dad had some health issues and went through radiation treatments. And what that looks like clients, relationships, so many different things that literally caused a pause for a lot of things in my life.

And I'm grateful for those pauses, which I was allowed to slow down and focus on the things that needed my attention. Focus on helping my kids transition to college, focus on being a support to my dad, just focus on changes in life in the seasons that come with that. And so as I sit on this Thanksgiving, I truly do find myself giving thanks. In all circumstances, everything in life is not going to be a bed of roses. There are thorns, you know, and as beautiful as roses are, they do come with thorns. And that's a part of their beauty. And whether you journal, whether you write down every single day in your planner, the top three things that you are grateful for, whether you just verbalize those things at the moment, whether you do a combination of all three of those, find ways that work for you. For you to intentionally practice giving thanks. Not only on Thanksgiving but every single day in all of life circumstances. And trust me, there will be some life circumstances that absolutely suck. They will feel horrible. And we have to unpeel the layers back to find the good in it. To find something in it to give things. I've had my share of those throughout my life. And I'm sure each of you has as well. But as I said today, I'm reminded that togetherness is wonderful. The family is great. Being able to have amazing people that in some cases, I've never met in person. But they have enriched my life in ways that I would have never suspected That's amazing. To have clients that I've worked with that are truly Jim's kind, giving folks to have my real-life friends, I'll say real life, who so many of us have been so much more intentional and gathering together and seeing each other and communicating more regularly. COVID did slow some things down for a lot of us. But I think that even in it, there's a lot we can give things for. For many of us, we might have realized we don't need as much staff, I realized the importance of relationships, the importance of a hug, the importance of being connected. We're not meant to live this life alone. We're not on an island. We have such an interconnectedness, whether we are here, whether we are in Australia, whether we are in Africa, whether we are in Europe, our world is so interconnected. And I give thanks even for that, give thanks for technology, I've been able to meet some amazing people that I wouldn't have been able to meet. So I could wax and wane for hours of all that I'm thankful for. But I won't, because I want you to make sure you're enjoying time with your family. And that I am doing the same with mine. So on this Thanksgiving 2021, I want to give things through you. Because two years ago, this was a dream for me to have a podcast. And now I do and I appreciate each and every one of your listens to each and every one of your messages to me of something that resonated with you. Each and every review.

Each and every Hey girl, good job. Because each and every one of them means the world to me.

So happy Thanksgiving for me and mine to you and yours. See you next time.

Meet Kiva Slade - the Founder and CEO of The 516 Collaborative. With a unique background in high-power politics on Capitol Hill and sixteen years as a homeschooling mama, Kiva found her calling in the online business world as a trusted guide for entrepreneurs looking to build the business of their dreams.

Kiva's work began behind the scenes, orchestrating the back end of businesses and managing teams. But her inner data diva couldn't help but notice that small businesses needed help harnessing the power of data for growth. So she and her team set out to uncover and tidy up the data required to enable clients to grow their businesses confidently and easily.