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Today we’re going to talk about Wow experiences. What is a wow experience? It’s moments that go above and beyond expectations. Two moments that came to mind for me, one was visiting the Redwood forest in northern California. The trees and the landscape there are gorgeous. The other one was when I was 12 years old, waking up to the Nintendo 64 I’d saved up to buy for a year. The packaging was colorful and had bright pictures of all the amazing adventures I was about to have, everything was new and crisp, and I had a blast playing Super Mario 64 that day. Wow experiences— going above and beyond, don’t come naturally. We don’t have them every day. But just think if you could create one for someone else and connect in that way, what it might do for them. In his book Platform, Michael Hyatt mentions 10 principals to help you “Bake in the wow”, check it out to learn more. I think one of those principals, surprise, can be especially powerful, because it’s unexpected. We usually d