Happy Wednesday, Wise Owl Nation!

In the United States we are one day away from Thanksgiving.

A day where many of us think back on the past year and show conscious gratitude for how lucky we are to live in the safest and most advanced time in human history.

It's also a holiday of over-consumption and crazed shopping, but I digress.

As a reader of Wise Owl Wednesday you are more self-aware than that. So this week's issue will not focus on cyber Monday deals or other cool discounts on products, this issue will focus on gratitude.

It won't be a long issue (I hope) but I hope you gain some value from it anyway.

Thank you so much for being a reader of the words I write. I am incredibly lucky to have your attention every week.

Let's get into it.

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🧠 Wisdom Tip(s) of The Week: The power of gratitude on your mind

The world at the end of 2021 is a really interesting place.

A place where even the word science can become divisive, and the word freedom can be misunderstood and misconstrued.

When it feels like everything is chaotic and wrong, that is a clear indicator that you are focusing solely on the wrong things and it is time to take a step back and find the silver linings.

I've written about silver linings before, so I won't go too much into them in this newsletter, but silver linings and gratitude go hand in hand. They overlap quite often.

Silver linings are what you look for when you are struggling to give grace. When gratitude seems like an outlandish idea.

I don't know how your year has been, but regardless of what has happened to you, you have an abundance to be grateful for.

1. For one, you're alive. Many people lost their lives this year.
2. For second, you have access to electricity, the internet, and a computer of some sort (phones included) that allows you access to a newsletter like this.
3. For third, you have the time to pause and read. Many people don't even have that as they fight and claw to survive.

You can't control what happens to you, but you have all the power over how you respond.

So be grateful that you have the chance to take a step forward today. Your future has potential, no matter what your past or present circumstances seem to show.

When life starts to get tough, it is vastly important to stop and take the time to find the good, the opportunities, and the reasons to be grateful.

A holiday like thanksgiving can fill many people with dread and anxiety. For many, they don't have family to visit. For some, visiting their family is stressful. Regardless of your circumstances, use this holiday, or a similar holiday in your country to take a mindful pause so you can reflect.

🤑 A focused Wealth issue coming in hot next week 🤑

I have a lot I want to write about pertaining to wealth next week, so look forward to that!

I go through phases of focus, where I spend a lot of time thinking about wisdom, health, or wealth. I have been spending a lot of time thinking about wealth lately so I want to write a newsletter dedicated solely to that.

Ethereum Stats:

Total ETH burned - 1,001 ,000 ETH (or $4.2+ billion!!)

ETH burned in the last week - 80,000 ETH !!!! 😱

Avg ETH burn per minute (all-time) - 6.26 ETH/min

My favorite website for watching the ETH 🔥 is ultrasound.money.

Have a great week!

This concludes our issue this week, I hope it gave you some perspective or injected a little motivation into your life!

If it helped, let me know! I read every newsletter response I receive, and I absolutely love hearing from all of you. This newsletter is for you, so I need your help to make it as great as possible.

If you'd like to show me some love for writing all this free stuff, you can always buy me a coffee.

More Resources

I will be adding to this section over time as we find resources that will help you all.

• Check out the Wise Owl Store
• All Wise Healthy Wealthy Articles on Medium
• Start your own Sendfox Newsletter
• Free products to help you level up

Crypto Resources

The Bankless Podcast: This is a link to the bankless podcast on Spotify. Start from the very beginning and learn why I am so positive about the power of Crypto and Ethereum in particular. You can find the podcast easily on the internet, but I am linking to episode 1 on Spotify for your convenience.

Buy your first ETH or BTC:

• On Coinbase - this is the easiest starting place for the newest beginners
• On Gemini - Another great option founded by the Winklevoss brothers. They are based out of New York.
• On Kraken - Kraken has a bit of a harder user interface, but they already have ETH staking enabled with the push of a single button.

Earn interest on your crypto

• BlockFi - Currently, you can earn 4.5% interest on BTC, 5% interest on ETH, and a whopping 8.25% on stable coins like USDC. Use the referral code b09f24fd to support the newsletter.

Other tools:

• Argent Wallet - This is the best mobile wallet for Ethereum, Defi, and all things on the Ethereum network, including staking. They even have plans to implement Layer 2 to remove network fees.
• Ethhub - this is a weekly newsletter that lists out all the interesting news, articles, and tweets that have happened in Crypto that week. It's free and awesome.
• Ethdashboard - A simple dashboard to look at various metrics in the ethereum space. I mainly use this as a quick tool to check ETH gas fees.
• Cointracker - this is one of the better tools for tracking all of your various crypto across all of the various wallets, exchanges, etc. You can also use them to do your crypto taxes each year.
• Metamask - this is a crypto wallet that you can access from your browser and allows you to easily interact with blockchain apps online.