“Everything you need is underneath your nose. It’s also in your head and your heart.” — Brian Buffini The Frank Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life is more than a feel-good holiday classic starring Hollywood icon Jimmy Stewart; it’s main intention is to offer a heaping dose of encouragement to those who are feeling discouraged. In this episode, recorded at Buffini & Company’s MasterMind Summit 2017, Brian Buffini delves into what causes us to feel discouraged from time to time and reveals five encouraging ways to change your perspective and make your life wonderful. You’ll learn how comfort and our society foster feelings of entitlement, the common symptoms of discouragement and the tools you can use to feel more encouraged and optimistic about life. ‘Tis the season for gratitude and reflection; this episode will help you appreciate what you have and encourage you to find your purpose.   Inspirational quotes from today’s interview: “The purpose of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life is to encourage the discouraged.” — Brian Buffini “Everything you need is underneath your nose. It’s also in your head and your heart.” — Brian Buffini “Failure is an event, not a person.” — Zig Ziglar “Every life was designed to do something.” — Brian Buffini “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller “Happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” — Frederick Koenig “We’ve become a culture that’s addicted to comfort and with that comfort comes a sense of entitlement.” — Brian Buffini “When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” — Lao Tzu “The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.” — Heraclitus “Everything you complain about is something you think you’re entitled to.” — Brian Buffini “Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.” — Theodore Roosevelt “We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.” — Blaise Pascal “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…” –Romans 12:2 “Renewing your mind is not refreshing your screen.” — Brian Buffini “A gentle answer turns away wrath but a harsh word stirs up anger.” — Proverbs 15:1 “Diamond minds; soft hearts.” — Brian Buffini “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” — Harry S. Truman “Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.”-Elvis Presley “When you get to the end of yourself, it’s good to have something to believe in.” — Brian Buffini “The more you dig, the bigger the diamonds.” — Brian Buffini “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — from The Shawshank Redemption “Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.” — Richard Friedman “When you get exposure, your world gets bigger.” — Brian Buffini “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” — John Wesley   Mentioned in the episode: The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern   Connect with Brian Buffini http://www.brianbuffini.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brianbuffini Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianbuffini Buffini Show Insiders: http://www.thebrianbuffinishow.com/insiders Love what you heard? Share it with your friends! http://bit.ly/BrianBuffiniShow Click here to buy our Podcast theme music, “The Cliffs of Moher” by Brogue Wave. http://www.broguewave.com http://www.facebook.com/broguewave