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A Christmas Day message.
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“Happiness in the future is never possible. Happiness is only possible in the present, in this moment, in this right now. It's not possible to have happiness living in the past are in the future, only here in the present.”
“2020, I see it as it's been a magnifying glass for a lot of people. And if you were a person who was especially lazy, the lockdown and more time has made you lazier. If you're a person who has bad dietary habits, the lockdown is exposed that further and you're using terms like the COVID stone.”
“I'm never a huge fan of New Year's resolutions and the idea of a fix that at a specific date. I rather like to kind of set the ship for America and that's my North Star and as I go, I make micro adjustments of course.”
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