Happy Tuesday to you, and welcome to another edition of Positive DONUT. We've got an exciting announcement for you that'll have you feeling a bit like THIS guy🤠: 

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Without further ado, onto this week's positive news... 

🚀⏰ Ready, Set, Go: Today's newsletter takes ~3.19 minutes to read (849 words).

Today could be the best day of my life. I welcome whatever the Universe has in store for me.

Welcome to The Driving Range👆, a series of trails running through the backcountry of Vermont full of lush tree cover, bridges, streams, and stunning mountain views. 

The trails have just finished being reworked thanks to the help of Greg Durso, a mountain biker who hits the trails on his adaptable three-wheeled mountain bike. 

• The biker suffered from a spinal cord injury and is paralyzed from the waist down; he's passionate about leading an active lifestyle, however, and found mountain biking a few years ago. 

But as Greg continued learning about biking, he noticed many of the trails he would tackle were too narrow for his adaptive bike.

• “I was on some really narrow bridges that looked pretty sketchy,” he said of a group ride he took once. 
• As Greg approached each bridge, the entire team would have to stop, dismount, and carry him and his bike across the bridge before continuing their ride. It was frustrating and dehumanizing – and thus, his mission towards more adaptable trails was born. 

Berne Broudy, who rode often with Greg, took on the mission with him. She noted that there are so many problems in the world that we can’t necessarily fix. But, she says: “We can have an impact here. We can change this.”

Greg and Berne got together with a couple hundred volunteers and did something that had never been done in Vermont – and possibly the country. With the help of several nonprofits and 256 acres offered up by a Bolton landowner, they built the Driving Range trail network that was fully accessible to adaptive mountain bikes. They finished it just last week. 

👀 Looking ahead... Greg had the honor of test riding every single trail to give it his stamp of approval before opening them to the public. “The bike riding is great, but this place transcends the riding, right? It becomes this identity or vibe, or whatever it is to you," he said. "And it's bringing so many adaptive people together to have that. And that's just so hard to actually articulate and provide. But it gives that sense of normalcy back to people that don't know what that feeling is anymore.”

Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla – “The Magnificent Seven” – averaged an amazing 115%* returns in 2023 alone.

However, companies this big probably won’t offer life-changing, exponential returns again given their current size – the seven make up 33% of the entire S&P 500. But, if we’re looking for the next Mag Seven company, let’s ask: What separated them from competitors?

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The Olympics may be over, but I couldn't help but smile at this photo of Slimey the worm visiting the Eiffel Tower in honor of the Games. 

The Sesame Street character was spotted painting at the iconic landmark (😉) and taking in all the views Paris has to offer.

• "These landmarks are so much bigger up close!" reads a Sesame Street Instagram post.

🥲 Who's chopping onions in here... Tyson Cash is a pup-bus driver for a doggie daycare center in Georgia. When he spotted a stray labrador chasing after his dog bus, desperate for a ride, it broke his heart he couldn't let the pup on. After posting about the stray dog, however, the pup captured the heart of a nearby local – and found his way to his forever home🥰.

🎥 A movie-worthy entrance... Sarah Vincent was 39-weeks pregnant when she went to the movies with her young son and parents. They didn't get to see the ending, as the mom went into labor mid-screening and ended up giving birth in the movie theater lobby. Mo Williams, general manager of the Cinema World, announced the baby girl will get free movies for life.

🐼 Welcome to the world... Ying Ying, a 19-year-old giant panda in China, has given birth to twins after more than a decade of unsuccessfully trying to mate. She is officially the oldest known first-time panda mother in history. 

You can read all of the positive news in the world, but true happiness comes from within. 

And that's where mindfulness practices come in😌. Today, we're focusing on the physical side of mindfulness with a simple yoga practice. Yoga has always been linked to better physical flexibility and health, but recent research is showing it can also improve cognition and overall psychological performance. 

• Yoga provides physical and mental health benefits through four main components: breathing, physical relaxation, mindfulness meditation, and postures. And the best part about it? It meets you wherever you're at. 

🧘‍♀️ So whether you're a yoga pro or you've never done downward dog in your life, try out this 15-minute practice this week to reap some of the benefits of this amazing form of exercise. 

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Welcome to my favorite part of the newsletter, What's Your Win, where we get to celebrate all of the good news happening right here in our DONUT community. There's always something to celebrate; check out the submissions we received this week! 

❤️ One anonymous reader is remembering the power of friendship...

• "I have a friend I haven't been able to see for a while. Last night we were finally able to get together. We sat, shared a bottle of wine, and just caught up on life. I am so grateful I was able to take the time to appreciate and honor an important relationship in my life."

🤩 Amilie C. from Australia is making huge strides in finding her personal identity...

• "I am so excited to start on oestrogen next week! This is such an important step for me because it means I can finally be my true self. For so long, I've felt like my outside didn't match who I am on the inside, and now I'm taking a big step towards aligning my body with my identity. This journey hasn't been easy, but it's been worth it. I can't wait to see how this next chapter unfolds and to embrace every part of who I truly am."

🥳 Elizabeth T. from Miami, Florida, is making career strides...

• "I’m attending the national conference for my profession for the first time ever this week! I’m so excited to have this opportunity and so proud of the work I’ve put in to get here."

🇺🇸 Jessica W. from San Antonio, Texas, is ready to step into a leadership role...

• "As a high schooler in JROTC, one of my proudest achievements has been the honor of being selected as a company commander. I’ll be in charge of my own class, and that’s a big responsibility! I have to teach all the new students (we call them cadets) how the program works, how to fix their uniforms, how to march, etc…. Even though it’ll be a lot of work, I’m really excited for it! This is gonna be a good year, I can just feel it in my bones."👇

There's always something to celebrate. Whether it be a new job, a heartwarming conversation with a loved one, crossing an item off your bucket list, or simply enjoying your day a little more than usual, we want to hear about it.

Share your day-to-day wins with us here to be featured in next week's newsletter. Who knows? Sharing the positivity in your life might inspire someone to recognize the good in theirs🥰.

Share your wins here.

It's trivia time. Today's theme is the entertainment industry. How many can you get right? 

1. What was the first Taylor Swift song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100?
2. Which Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway show features the characters Mistoffelees and Old Deuteronomy?
3. Jess Day, Nick Miller, Winston Bishop, and Schmidt are all characters on what TV show?
4. What is the name of Elvis Presley's Memphis home?

(keep scrolling for the answers)

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1. "Tim McGraw"
2. Cats
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–Kailyn

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