Brian Tracy describes his family's Thanksgiving ritual: a massive turkey that takes Barbara half a day to prepare, a meal that stretches 2 to 3 hours with mashed potatoes, cornbread, and Brussels sprouts, and three generations gathered around the table. He's flown internationally to make it.
October 17, 2011.
December 30, 2025.
For me, Thanksgiving is one of the most important days of the year, along with Christmas, perhaps, because at Thanksgiving, going back to when I was a child, we always had a turkey at Thanksgiving. We all had family dinner. And there are always a whole bunch of other accompaniments. Mashed potatoes and beans and cornbread and Brussels sprouts, if you like, everything. So we had this great, great family dinner. Everybody gathered around, everybody ate vastly, vastly too much. And as Barbara and I got married, we kept up that tradition. And then first child, second child, and now we have all of our children. We have their husbands or wives. We have their friends or our grandchildren. And the table grows and grows and grows. But every single year, Barbara spends almost half a day preparing this massive turkey with all the other trimmings that go with it. And then we all sit down, and it takes about 152 to 3 hours to eat the dinner. And then, of course, we then spend the next two or three days getting over it. So we love the tradition of getting together at Thanksgiving every year, and we would never miss it. I've flown back from Europe or Asia to be sure to be here on Thanksgiving. And so my question to you is, what are your traditions? What are the favorite things that you do at Thanksgiving each year?
