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Thankful

It’s a special day for some (for others, the day already happened). Regardless, Thanksgiving is a great holiday because it (hopefully) allows you to take one moment to remember what you have to be thankful for.

Here are just some of the things I am thankful for:

Family and friends (nothing ever tops that).
Health.
Connectivity (not just the Intertubes – but being connected to people like you).
Personal happiness, passion and drive (nothing happens without it).
Education and literacy (so much more to read, listen, watch, share and consume).
Twist Image (from my business partners and team members to the clients who employ us).
Community (in all of it’s forms – from where I live to where I play – both online and offline).
Mobility (the ability to do things almost anywhere and everywhere).
Music (from the heavy stuff to the very classical).
Literature (from the self-published and Blogs to the major publishers and everyone in between).
Art (for its constant inspiration and experimentation).

Oh, and there’s one more thing I am thankful for: YOU!

Thank you for your attention and for encouraging (and sometimes discouraging) my behaviour.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.