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- The band U2 has a song
called "Beautiful Day"

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and one of the lines in
the song goes like this:

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"It's a beautiful day,
don't let it get away."

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And I think it's a great sentiment.

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I really, really like
that line in that song.

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I think it's a great
way to start each day.

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And it's also a great way to think

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about finishing off this year
and starting the new year.

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By the way, this is kind of
my Christmas message video

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and my Happy New Year's video all in one.

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You'll probably be watching
this after Christmas though

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and before New Year's,

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but it'll be somewhere in between the two,

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so I think it still has some value.

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So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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and please think about that sentiment.

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"It's a beautiful day.

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Don't let it get away."

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What this means is

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that you should make sure every day,

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you live the day to its fullest.

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You do the things that bring you joy.

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You do the things that bring
other people joy as well.

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And I do want to challenge
you to do three things

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as you head into the new year.

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Three things that aren't about you,

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but they're about other people.

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And I think they're important.

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Number one is make sure
you say something kind

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to someone today.

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Make sure you try to say kind things

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to people as much as you can.

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This is not easy.

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I'm not good at this.

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I struggle every day to
be as kind as I can be.

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You might think I'm super kind

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because you only see the really
kind Bob here on YouTube.

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But every day I try to
say kind things to people.

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And then the second thing would be this.

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Try to help someone today.

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This is something that is
actually easier for me.

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Sometimes it's harder to say kind things,

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and it's easier to just do things

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that are helpful to people.

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Making these YouTube videos count.

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They count as one of the things
I do to try and help people.

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I love making these videos.

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I like helping you.

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But if you could challenge yourself,

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try to find a way in the new
year to just help someone.

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In some small way, help someone.

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It will make their day.

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And then the third thing,
which is maybe trickier,

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maybe a little harder,

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is to try and make someone smile

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or try and make someone laugh each day.

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Some days I'm really good at this.

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Some days just me laughing

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makes other people smile and laugh.

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But, of course, again, I'm human.

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There's other days where I try

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to make people smile or laugh
and it doesn't always work.

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And there's days where I
don't even try to do it.

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But I think it is a great goal every day

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to try and think about

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how will I make some of
the people around me smile

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or laugh a little bit?

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So those are the three challenges.

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Number one, try to say
kind things to people.

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Number two, try to help people.

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And number three, try
to make someone smile.

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And if you're really good at it,

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try and get people to laugh.

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I think you'll find it just
makes your day better as well.

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Hey, I do want to also say this.

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Thank you for watching my videos.

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Thanks to all of you for taking the time

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over the past year to
watch Bob the Canadian.

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It's been a blast.

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This past year was the year

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where I crossed into the land

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of having over a million subscribers.

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Still hard to believe.

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I had a lot of fun thinking of ideas

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and then making videos out of those ideas.

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So thank you so much
for watching my lessons.

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I know it sounds odd for the
teacher to thank the students

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for watching the lessons,

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but I do really appreciate it.

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So thank you, thank you,
thank you very much.

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And by the way, I'm not going anywhere.

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I'm going to keep on trucking.

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Did you hear the truck go by just now?

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That made me think of the
phrase, keep on trucking.

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I'm gonna keep making videos.

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You're watching this one today.

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There'll be another one next week.

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There'll be another one the week after.

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I have no plans to slow down.

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So thanks for watching these videos.

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Thanks for watching my
short English lessons

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on my other channel.

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It's a fun little place as
well if you haven't visited.

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It's called Bob's Short English Lessons.

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A lot of fun.

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I do wanna thank some specific people.

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I want to thank first of
all, all of my members.

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Sorry, I think I have something in my eye.

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I'm doing this video without any cuts

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so you're just gonna have to
watch me blink a little bit

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with this eye.

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I wanna thank all of my members.

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Those of you who have become
members to support my channel,

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thank you very much.

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I want to thank Todd and Dave.

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We haven't seen Todd much this fall,

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but thanks to Todd and Dave for
moderating the live streams.

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You guys are awesome.

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I really, really, really do appreciate it.

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And then thanks to, if we go back a ways,

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thanks to Audrey for editing my videos

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up until about the end of the summer.

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And thanks to Jenna for
taking over in the fall.

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Thanks to both of you for
helping make this channel better.

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If you guys didn't realize it,

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I haven't been doing my
own editing for a while.

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If you read the description,

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you'll see a thank you to either
Audrey from previous videos

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or for the last few months to Jenna.

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So thank you to the two
of you for helping me out.

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It makes it a little easier for me.

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I just need to have the idea,
go shoot all the footage,

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and send some notes, and then
a beautiful video gets made.

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So thank you for that.

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And I think that's about it.

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I'm planning to relax
a bit during the break

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but, as I said, the Christmas break.

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But as I said before in another video,

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I'm not planning to slow down.

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There will still be lots
of English lessons for you.

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So I hope to see you in a livestream.

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I hope to see you in the comments section.

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That just brings me joy as well.

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So if you want to bring
me a little joy, do that.

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Come to a live stream,
participate in the chat

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or just leave me a message
in the comments below.

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Anyways, once again, Merry Christmas.

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Happy New Year.

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I hope 2023, that is the
year it's gonna be right?

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2023? It's 2022 right now. Yes.

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I hope 2023 is an amazing year for you

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and I hope to see you around a lot.

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So anyways, good luck learning English.

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Stick with it.

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You're doing great.

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Bye.

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(bright festive music)