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A sad woman sitting on a beach thinking.

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

Some days are great, better than you would have expected when you rolled out of the bed in the morning.

Quite a few days are just good and OK days.

And then we have the other ones. The days that just wind up being bad.

What do you do then? I used to let them drag me down and I often wound up having not just one but a couple of bad days because of whatever happened.

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Friends having a Thanksgiving meal together.

Thanksgiving will soon be here and although many mainly focus on family there are also friends that are very important.

Plenty of people celebrate Friendsgiving these days to show appreciation and love for the people who choose to be in our lives, the ones that are there on tough days to listen and make us laugh and sometimes maybe understand us better than family would.

So in today’s post I want to share 85 of the most positive, meaningful and funny Thanksgiving quotes for friends.

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How to Overcome Perfectionism: 6 Powerful Habits

A woman holding a mug of coffee with a heartshape in the foam.

“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.”
Edith Schaeffer

One of the most common challenges that people email me about – and I myself have had quite a bit of trouble with – is perfectionism.

It’s an issue that can hold you back in life. Not only from achieving and finishing what you want.

But sometimes from even getting started. While at the same time draining your self-esteem, causing self-doubt and getting you stuck in a negative spiral where it can become harder and harder to start moving forward.

So today I’d like to share 6 things that have helped me – and still helps me to this day – with this destructive and distracting thought habit.

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Post-it notes expressing gratitude and thankfulness.

When we think about Thanksgiving we often think about family and close friends.

But another important part is expressing gratitude at work to your coworkers or employees (or maybe to your boss if you got a good one).

So in today’s post I’d like to help you out with that and with finding the right words. This is 101 of the most positive, heartfelt and funny Thanksgiving quotes for work.

Use one or a couple of them in a card for your favorite coworker or your team, in an email going out to your employees or maybe at a Thanksgiving lunch at work.

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