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The Courage to Begin Again | Episode #501 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international
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  Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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  Speaker 1: your Life Count. I'm delighted that you join me today.
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  Speaker 1: Today's episode is about making a fresh start. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're feeling stuck or you've hit a wall,
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  Speaker 1: today's show is just for you. Now, before we dive
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  Speaker 1: in today, I want to give a big thank you
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  Speaker 1: to those of you listening in. I also want to
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  Speaker 1: give a great, big shout out to all of you
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  Speaker 1: listening around the world. I'm delighted and so grateful that
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  Speaker 1: you tuned in. I sure hope you're enjoying a fabulous
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  Speaker 1: day and that you're having a fantastic week, because you
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  Speaker 1: know what, in the grand song of the universe, life
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  Speaker 1: is so very short, short, sweet, and very precious. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're making a difference in your own life,
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  Speaker 1: because when you do, you also make a difference in
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  Speaker 1: someone else's life. Now, a lot of folks really want
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  Speaker 1: to make their life count for something, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to do it, or it seems so big
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  Speaker 1: to them. They just don't know how or where to begin,
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  Speaker 1: So they ask me, doctor Gloria, how do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you make your life count? Well, it's really
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  Speaker 1: very simple, very simple. If you love people like I do,
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  Speaker 1: you can do something for them. Now. Some folks call
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  Speaker 1: this random acts of kindness or random acts of beauty.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. There is nothing random about kindness. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: kindness is a choice, a choice you can make every
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  Speaker 1: single day being kind, serving others, passing on your blessings.
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  Speaker 1: It's all part of legacy living. When I write notes
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  Speaker 1: to people, like a handwritten note of some kind, a
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  Speaker 1: thank you note, a birthday card, an anniversary card, I
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  Speaker 1: usually tuck in something small, like a tea bag or
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  Speaker 1: those little packets of coffee. Sometimes I even include a
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  Speaker 1: page of postage stamps. When I'm at the grocery store,
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  Speaker 1: I sometimes pick up something nourishing that I can give
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  Speaker 1: to our local food bank. And I always try to
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  Speaker 1: remember to look into the eyes of the person who
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  Speaker 1: is ringing up my groceries, and I ask them how
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  Speaker 1: they're doing or how their day is going, or I
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  Speaker 1: simply wish them a blessed day. Now, if I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry, I may not always remember, but I do
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  Speaker 1: try now. I also smile a lot, not a goofy
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  Speaker 1: kind of smile, though I do have one of those,
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  Speaker 1: but I just simply smile. Sometimes I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: I'm smiling until someone says, wow, I just love your smile.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, in our culture, especially northern Western Hemisphere culture,
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  Speaker 1: we often say that time is money. Well I'm not
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  Speaker 1: so sure about that. Why because a smile doesn't cost
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  Speaker 1: a thing, It doesn't cost a single dime. Yet the
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  Speaker 1: value of your smile to you and to the other
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  Speaker 1: person is positively priceless. And you know what, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: You never know who might need the warmth, the beauty,
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  Speaker 1: the kindness, the radiance of your smile. You never know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in someone else's life. You don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they're sister or brother, or neighbor or son or
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  Speaker 1: daughter just said to them, right, You don't know what
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  Speaker 1: kind of news their doctor might have just given them.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to know how to make a difference,
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  Speaker 1: that's how you do it. You make a difference by
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  Speaker 1: your everyday small big doesn't matter about size, but by
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  Speaker 1: your genuine acts of love, compassion, kindness, and generosity. You
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  Speaker 1: know what, even our thoughts, our thoughts can make a
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  Speaker 1: difference because our thoughts are made up of what of
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  Speaker 1: words and images, and words and images are made up
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  Speaker 1: of energy. You know that little saying we all learned
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  Speaker 1: when we were little. It goes something like sticks and
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  Speaker 1: stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you something that is a lie. You
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  Speaker 1: know as well as I do, and you've heard me
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  Speaker 1: say it before. Words have energy, vitality, and soul. Words
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  Speaker 1: have the power to bless or to blesspheme. They have
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  Speaker 1: the power to hurt or to heal. So take good
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  Speaker 1: care to send thoughts of love and healing, thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: hospitality and generosity. Now, I truly believe that we are
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  Speaker 1: here to love one another and to serve one another.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how you do it. You make your life count,
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  Speaker 1: day by day, step by step, moment by moment, every
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  Speaker 1: single day. Three sixty five twenty four seven. That's what
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  Speaker 1: legacy living Make your Life Count is all about. You
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  Speaker 1: can learn more about legacy living Make your Life Count
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  Speaker 1: by visiting my website. That's the Gloria Burgess website. And hey,
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  Speaker 1: you can even sign up for my weekly inspirations. You
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  Speaker 1: just scroll down on the website on the homepage, just
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  Speaker 1: scroll down a bit and look on the right hand
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  Speaker 1: side for the sidebar for my weekly inspiration and just
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  Speaker 1: put your email address right there in that little slot.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. That's all you need to do. And
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  Speaker 1: each week, every Monday morning, you'll receive a lovely inspiring
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  Speaker 1: image and a few words to get your week off
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  Speaker 1: to a marvelous start. Now, today's episode is about making
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start. So what does that mean and what
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  Speaker 1: does it take to make a fresh start, to get
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  Speaker 1: out of your routine, to break out of your comfort zone. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I want to share a little secret with you. You
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  Speaker 1: can do it. I can do it. Everyone can make
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start. Every single one of us can make
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  Speaker 1: a new beginning. Now, before we jump in today, I
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  Speaker 1: want to take a moment to welcome you, my listeners.
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  Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, I'm your host, doctor Gloria
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  Speaker 1: Gloria Burgess and this is Legacy Living, Make your Life Count.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd like to extend a very special welcome to
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  Speaker 1: those of you who are joining my podcast or if
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  Speaker 1: you're joining Talk Network Radio for the very first time.
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  Speaker 1: You are in for a real treat I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: have you listening in today, and I'm deeply honored that
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  Speaker 1: you've allowed me to be part of your day so
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  Speaker 1: you can be inspired by ideas and resources to make
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  Speaker 1: your life count again. Today's program is all about getting
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  Speaker 1: unstuck beginning again. My specific focus today is about making
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start. You can make a new beginning now.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite book says there is a time for everything.
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  Speaker 1: There is a time for everything. This scripture from Ecclesiastes
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  Speaker 1: says there is a time and a season for every
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  Speaker 1: activity under the heavens. A time to be born and
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  Speaker 1: a time to die, a time to plant and a
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  Speaker 1: time to uproot, a time to kill and a time
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  Speaker 1: to heal, a time to tear down and a time
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  Speaker 1: to build. A time to weep and a time to laugh,
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  Speaker 1: a time to mourn and a time to dance. A
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  Speaker 1: time to scatter stones and a time to gather them.
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  Speaker 1: A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.
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  Speaker 1: A time to search and a time to give up.
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  Speaker 1: A time to keep and a time to throw away,
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  Speaker 1: a time to tear and a time to mend. A
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  Speaker 1: time to be silent and a time to speak. A
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  Speaker 1: time to love and a time to hate, a time
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  Speaker 1: for war and a time for peace. Now, I just
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  Speaker 1: love that passage. So I want you to ask yourself
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  Speaker 1: what season are you in? Are you in a season
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  Speaker 1: where you are looking to break out of your comfort zone,
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  Speaker 1: a season where you're looking looking to take a fresh
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  Speaker 1: new approach. Are you in a season where you are
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  Speaker 1: ready to begin again but you don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: do that, or maybe you need a little encouragement. Well,
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  Speaker 1: good for you. I want you to listen up. Help
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  Speaker 1: is on the way, and I don't want you to
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  Speaker 1: think you're all alone. You are not alone. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: all of us get to a point in our life
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  Speaker 1: where we're simply tired. We just get tired of the
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  Speaker 1: same old, same old right, the same old thing. We
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  Speaker 1: get tired of our situation at work or at home,
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  Speaker 1: or in our relationships. Sometimes we even get tired of
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  Speaker 1: being in the same place physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: When we get to that point where we say I
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  Speaker 1: have had it, I'm done. Enough is enough. When we
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  Speaker 1: get to this point, it is definitely time to let go,
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  Speaker 1: to let go and to start fresh. In fact, letting
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  Speaker 1: go and starting over can be the absolute best thing
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  Speaker 1: for you to do. You can get inspiration to begin
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  Speaker 1: again right where you are. You don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: any place, right, You can get inspiration from the world
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  Speaker 1: around you. Now, think about it. Just think about this.
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  Speaker 1: When we ring in the new year, that's a very
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  Speaker 1: natural time to reflect on your life, right, to think
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  Speaker 1: about what's going well, what's not working so well or
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  Speaker 1: at least as well as who would like. So you
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  Speaker 1: can find inspiration just by thinking about that particular time
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  Speaker 1: of the year. Now. I live in the Pacific Northwest
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, and in this geographic area, our
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  Speaker 1: year begins during the winter months right now. Typically during
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  Speaker 1: this time of the year, we have had weeks and weeks,
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  Speaker 1: if not several months of rainy, cold weather. But if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the ground, if you look very closely,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually see some very early signs of spring.
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  Speaker 1: You can see very early signs of new life, early
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  Speaker 1: signs of new beginnings. Maybe there are a few lovely
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  Speaker 1: crocus buds pushing their way up and out of the ground,
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  Speaker 1: or those beautiful little grape hyacinth right, and if you
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  Speaker 1: pay close attention to the birds, you'll see red breasted
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  Speaker 1: robins digging into the earth. What are they digging for? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're digging for food. They're digging for worms. Nature has
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  Speaker 1: so many wonderful telltale signs of making a fresh start.
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  Speaker 1: Another sign of nature's new beginnings are the trees in
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  Speaker 1: my yard. My husband and I have lots of flowering
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  Speaker 1: trees around our house, including several varieties of rhododendrons and
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  Speaker 1: all of these roadies. All of these rhododendrons have such
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  Speaker 1: beautiful names, names like White Angel, Mount Everest, wind Song,
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  Speaker 1: and Christmas Cheer. So when I've had enough of the cloudy,
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  Speaker 1: rainy cold days, I look into our front yard for
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  Speaker 1: our Christmas Cheer rhododendrons. I can count on the flower
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  Speaker 1: buds to be fat and full and a very beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: delicate shade of pink. And when I see those beautiful
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  Speaker 1: pink buds that are just about to pop into full bloom,
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  Speaker 1: That's when I remember why this beautiful bush is called
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Cheer, because their lovely flowers bring smiles full of joy,
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  Speaker 1: just like the very special season of Christmas. When I
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  Speaker 1: meditate on this season, I quickly begin to think about
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  Speaker 1: what I'm grateful for, especially during the many long weeks
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  Speaker 1: of gray, overcast, cold days. And as I think about
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  Speaker 1: the flowering rodies, the surefooted robins, and those tiny, brave
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  Speaker 1: little crocus buds, guess what, I'm also reminded of spring,
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  Speaker 1: another wonderful season of new beginnings. I like to think
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  Speaker 1: of spring as the queen of making a fresh start.
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  Speaker 1: Think about this spring where a person she would ask
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  Speaker 1: you what gives you life? What gives you life? What
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  Speaker 1: satisfies you? She might also ask, where can you make
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  Speaker 1: room for more satisfaction in your life? Where can you
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  Speaker 1: make more room for more satisfaction in your life? Another
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  Speaker 1: question she might ask is what do you need to
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  Speaker 1: let go of in order to make room for what
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  Speaker 1: you want more of in your life? Now? That's a
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  Speaker 1: great question. What do you need to let go of
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  Speaker 1: in order to make room for what you want more
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  Speaker 1: of in your life? What's on your to do list
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  Speaker 1: that you need to simply say no to? That's a
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  Speaker 1: good question for me, So what do you need to
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  Speaker 1: say no to? Another question is what no longer serves
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  Speaker 1: you in this particular season of your life. You can
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  Speaker 1: also ask yourself where do I want to be? Now?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question, isn't it? Most folks just sort
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  Speaker 1: of wander through life without asking any questions of themselves
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  Speaker 1: at all. They just accept the hand that life deals out.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want your life to be different, you
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  Speaker 1: know what you have to act differently and one key step,
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  Speaker 1: one key step is to ask yourself two good questions,
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  Speaker 1: and the questions are where am I now? Where am
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  Speaker 1: I now? And where do I want to be? Both
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  Speaker 1: of these questions are about vision. As a leadership coach
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  Speaker 1: and consultant, I have supported many people for many, many
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  Speaker 1: years who ask the very same questions where am I now?
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  Speaker 1: And where do I want to be? Before that, before
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  Speaker 1: I became a consultant and started my own business, I
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  Speaker 1: was a leader in corporate America right, and I supported
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  Speaker 1: people on my team using these very same questions where
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  Speaker 1: are you now? And where do you want to be?
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  Speaker 1: Where do you want to go? These very simple questions
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  Speaker 1: can yield incredible life changing results. Pretty amazing, isn't it. So?
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're working on organizational strategy or building a better
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  Speaker 1: team or building a better you, these questions will help
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  Speaker 1: you move in the direction you want to go. As
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, these questions are all about vision. Having
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  Speaker 1: a vision is key to making a fresh start having
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  Speaker 1: a vision or having a dream. Having something in front
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  Speaker 1: of you, something to strive for, something to guide your
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  Speaker 1: actions and guide your choices is absolutely essential to creating
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  Speaker 1: the life you want. So let's put first things first.
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  Speaker 1: To make a new start, You've got to have a dream, right,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have a vision. And once you have
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  Speaker 1: that dream, you can visualize and pray about your dream.
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  Speaker 1: You can meditate and recite daily affirmations about your dream.
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  Speaker 1: You can even set goals and create action plans. All
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  Speaker 1: of these strategies will move you closer to achieving your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: But to make your dreams become a reality, to make
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  Speaker 1: your vision manifest, to make them come true, one thing
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  Speaker 1: is I must do. Okay, you have to act on
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  Speaker 1: your goals. You have to act on your action plans.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, You've got to act because when you do,
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  Speaker 1: when you take that first step, then guess what providence
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  Speaker 1: moves to to support you in making your dreams a reality.
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  Speaker 1: One of my many inspirations for this podcast is my
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  Speaker 1: daughter as a little girl. She was very clear about
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  Speaker 1: what she wanted. Now, she didn't have her life all
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  Speaker 1: planned out at that young age, but I remember when
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  Speaker 1: she was in her early teen. She was about maybe
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  Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen years old, and one day she declared, she said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I do not want to go to college
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  Speaker 1: here in this state of Washington. Now, her declaration seemed
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  Speaker 1: to come out of the blue, but clearly she had
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  Speaker 1: been thinking about this for quite some time. She had
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  Speaker 1: been considering what she wanted for her life, and at
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  Speaker 1: that young age, she set her sights on going to
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  Speaker 1: college on the East Coast. She wanted a different experience
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  Speaker 1: and a different life. She wanted to branch out, to
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  Speaker 1: expand her horizons, to enhance her learning opportunities. In short,
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to make a fresh start for herself, and
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  Speaker 1: several years later, when the time was right, she applied
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  Speaker 1: to and was accepted at a number of colleges on
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast, several thousand miles away. Now, my husband
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  Speaker 1: and I took her to visit several colleges, and when
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  Speaker 1: she found the one that felt like home, she was
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  Speaker 1: ready to begin again. Without knowing a single soul, my
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  Speaker 1: daughter moved across the country and made a new start,
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  Speaker 1: a new beginning. She made a new life for herself,
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  Speaker 1: not once, not twice, but several times during the past
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  Speaker 1: decade and you know what, when I think about others
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  Speaker 1: in my family, there are so many stories about people
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  Speaker 1: making a fresh start. For example, I've shared with you
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  Speaker 1: that my immediate family is part of what we call
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  Speaker 1: the Great Migration, that mass exodus of African Americans leaving
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  Speaker 1: the Southern States to make a fresh start in the
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  Speaker 1: Northern States. And even before the stories about the Great Migration,
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  Speaker 1: there are stories I remember hearing when I was a
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  Speaker 1: little girl, stories that came through my elders, those who
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  Speaker 1: remember relatives who had a memory of stories about slavery,
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  Speaker 1: who had a memory of their fathers and mothers making
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  Speaker 1: a new start in a totally different culture and place
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand miles away from their homeland of Africa. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what, when I think about my own life,
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  Speaker 1: I've made a fresh start many many times. Like my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: I also wanted to attend an East Coast college and
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  Speaker 1: I was accepted, but you know what, we just didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the money. My parents could not afford to pay
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  Speaker 1: for me to attend, so I attended a local college.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I attended the fabulous University of Michigan, and
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  Speaker 1: I got a job during my time there to help
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  Speaker 1: my parents out with my expenses. When I went to
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  Speaker 1: graduate school, I attended on scholarship, and just like my
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  Speaker 1: own daughter, I also left home to attend USC. I
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  Speaker 1: moved from Michigan to California to attend university, with no
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  Speaker 1: network to speak of, no prospects for work, and yet
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  Speaker 1: I was able to make a fresh start. What I
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  Speaker 1: know is that when you want to begin again, one
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  Speaker 1: of the most helpful things you can have is a
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  Speaker 1: vision for what's possible. Now, I want to be sure
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  Speaker 1: you heard what I just said. I didn't say you
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  Speaker 1: have to have a goal or even a plan. I
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  Speaker 1: said you have to have a vision for what's possible.
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  Speaker 1: And along with your vision, you need to have one
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  Speaker 1: sure thing, one sure thing, and that one thing is commitment. Commitment.
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  Speaker 1: William H. Murray, a Scottish mountaineer and writer, says this
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  Speaker 1: about commitment. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the
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  Speaker 1: chance to draw back, always in effectiveness. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: repeat that, until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the
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  Speaker 1: chance to draw back, always in effectiveness. He goes on
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  Speaker 1: to say, concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there
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  Speaker 1: is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless
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  Speaker 1: ideas and splendid plans that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
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  Speaker 1: then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to
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  Speaker 1: help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole
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  Speaker 1: stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor,
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  Speaker 1: all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance
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  Speaker 1: which no man or woman for that matter, could have
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  Speaker 1: dreamed would have come their way. Murray says, I have
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  Speaker 1: learned a deep respect for one of Gerte's couplets. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you can do or dream, you can begin it, begin it.
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  Speaker 1: Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. So in
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  Speaker 1: other words, action plus commitment equals magic and genius. Right
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  Speaker 1: action plus commitment equals magic and genius. When you begin,
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  Speaker 1: you commit, it is as if all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: the universe just starts to cooperate with you. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not all of a sudden. It seems all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: but it isn't. The reason that it seems all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden is because we've begun, we've committed, and when
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  Speaker 1: we do, when we begin, when we commit, God moves to.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Murray means by providence know this, Providence will
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  Speaker 1: move only when you do. Now, if you still doubt
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  Speaker 1: in some way, if you only act some of the time,
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  Speaker 1: or if you work on Plan A and Plan B
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  Speaker 1: at the same time because you're afraid that plan A
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  Speaker 1: will fail, guess what. Success might very well slip right
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  Speaker 1: through your fingers. It will gape you. But once you
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  Speaker 1: really commit, once you let go and really say goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to what's behind you, and you really go for it,
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  Speaker 1: that's when magic begins to happen. So what are you
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  Speaker 1: waiting for? Go for it? Jump now, stop procrastinating. Begin
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  Speaker 1: today now. There are so many folks out there who
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  Speaker 1: know the value of going for it, who know the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of commitment, but for whatever reason, fear stops them.
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  Speaker 1: Does that sound like you. You might make a tiny step,
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  Speaker 1: but fear stops you from taking the next step, or
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  Speaker 1: stops you from following through. Sometimes your fear is so strong,
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  Speaker 1: so powerful, it can actually stop you cold, can stop
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  Speaker 1: you dead in your tracks, so you don't even begin,
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  Speaker 1: You don't even start. Here's the thing. You must not
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  Speaker 1: let fear or anything else rule you anymore. You must
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  Speaker 1: not let fear or anything else stop you in your tracks.
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  Speaker 1: You must begin, begin with a burning desire. You must
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  Speaker 1: begin with a fire in your heart, a fire in
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  Speaker 1: your soul, to make a difference first in your own life,
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  Speaker 1: so that you can make a difference in the lives
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  Speaker 1: of someone else. So when you let go of that fear,
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  Speaker 1: when you can say no to fear ruling your life,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually create. You make the space in your life,
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  Speaker 1: You clear the decks so that you can live into
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  Speaker 1: your highest and best self. You can live into your
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  Speaker 1: God given gifts. And when you do, you actually make
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  Speaker 1: an agreement with God to become the inspired, passionate person
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  Speaker 1: he designed you to be. You can actually draw strength
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  Speaker 1: from so many people, knowing if they can do it,
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  Speaker 1: if they can make a fresh start, you can do
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  Speaker 1: it too. You can begin again just like anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Now you all know that I'm a writer, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of writers get tripped up, they get stuck by
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  Speaker 1: what we call writer's block. Well, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even believe in writer's block. Why because I just look
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  Speaker 1: at all the books on my bookshelves in every room.
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  Speaker 1: I have books, books everywhere right, and I draw inspiration
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  Speaker 1: from the writers all around me. If they could do it, huh,
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  Speaker 1: I can do it. Too. As you make your fresh start,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to focus focus your vision on your future self. Also,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to surround yourself with people who love you,
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  Speaker 1: people who lift you up, not push you down, but
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  Speaker 1: people who lift you up, people who have only your
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  Speaker 1: best interest at heart. One more thing. I love listening
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  Speaker 1: to inspiring music, or reading an inspiring book or an
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  Speaker 1: inspiring scripture, or sometimes I just take in inspiring quotes
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  Speaker 1: and images. So be sure to choose something that inspires
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  Speaker 1: you and make it a part of your day. Here
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  Speaker 1: are a few words to encourage you as you make
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start in your life. This first one is
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  Speaker 1: for Plato, almost twenty five hundred years ago. Plato says,
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  Speaker 1: the beginning is the most important part of the work.
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  Speaker 1: I love that the beginning is the most important part
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  Speaker 1: of the work. Muriel Rickheiser is one of my favorite poets,
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  Speaker 1: and she says, nourish beginnings. Let us nourish beginnings. Not
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  Speaker 1: all things are blessed, but the seeds of all things
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  Speaker 1: are blessed. The blessing is in the seed. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior says about beginning. He says,
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  Speaker 1: take the first step in faith, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. Take
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  Speaker 1: the first step in faith. You don't have to see
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  Speaker 1: the whole staircase, Just take the first step. It's been
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  Speaker 1: said that change can be scary, But you know what's
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  Speaker 1: scarier allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.
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  Speaker 1: What's scarier than change is allowing fear to stop you
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  Speaker 1: from growing, evolving, and progressing. Now remember the scripture I
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  Speaker 1: shared earlier, which says there is a time for everything,
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  Speaker 1: and a season for every activity under the heavens. A
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  Speaker 1: time to be born and a time to die. A
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  Speaker 1: time to plant and a time to uproot, a time
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  Speaker 1: to kill and a time to heal. A time to
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  Speaker 1: tear down and a time to build. A time to
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  Speaker 1: weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn
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  Speaker 1: and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones
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  Speaker 1: and a time to gather them. A time to embrace
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  Speaker 1: and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to
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  Speaker 1: search and a time to give up. A time to
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  Speaker 1: keep and a time to throw away, a time to
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  Speaker 1: tear and a time to mend. A time to be
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  Speaker 1: silent and a time to speak, a time to love
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  Speaker 1: and a time to hate, a time for war and
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  Speaker 1: a time for peace. And I want you to know this,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what time it is, what season it is,
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  Speaker 1: remember these words from writer f Scott Fitzgerald. He says,
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  Speaker 1: it's never too late to become who you want to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's never too late to become who you want to be.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you live a life that you're proud of.
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  Speaker 1: And if you find that you're not, I hope you
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  Speaker 1: have the strength to start over. As one of my
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  Speaker 1: friends and colleague says, it's never too late to have
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  Speaker 1: a second childhood. Right, Okay, Now, if you missed last
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  Speaker 1: your life count by visiting the Gloria Burgess website, and
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  Speaker 1: as I've mentioned before, if you love to be inspired,
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  Speaker 1: Each week you get a lovely photograph and a short
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  Speaker 1: quotation that inspires you. You can also find me on
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  Speaker 1: Just type in my name to find me there. Before
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  Speaker 1: I close today, I want to thank each of you
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  Speaker 1: for tuning in for allowing me to share a bit
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  Speaker 1: about my journey with what Legacy living is all about,
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  Speaker 1: not just living and learning, but living and learning and
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  Speaker 1: serving so that you make a difference in your own
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  Speaker 1: life and in the lives of others. It's about being
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  Speaker 1: on purpose every single day. Three sixty five twenty four seven.
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  Speaker 1: Legacy living is a powerful way to make your life count.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, and this is
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  Speaker 1: Legacy Living. Make your life count. Please join me again
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  Speaker 1: next time right here for another episode of Legacy Living.
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  Speaker 1: Make your life count. Don't just count the days in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Make the days in your life count. That's
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  Speaker 1: what legacy living is all about. Have a fantastic day
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  Speaker 1: and remember, make the days in your life count. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. That's our show today. I'm your host, Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join me again next time.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, don't just count the days in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Make the days in your life count. That's what legacy
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  Speaker 1: living is all about. Here's to you. Have a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: day and be sure to make it a yes kind
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  Speaker 1: of day. Remember to celebrate the music of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Make the days in your life count.