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Be Inspired | Episode #375 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your Life Count.
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  I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international leadership expert and trusted
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  advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make your Life Count. I am so
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  delighted that you joined me today. I have an incredible show for you.
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  I am going to share with you some words of wisdom that are near and
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  dear to my heart. Today, I'm going to focus specifically on words that
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  inspire, words that lift us up, words that encourage us. I'm going
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  to ask you to share the wealth. After you listen to this episode,
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  I want you to tell a friend, and I want you to come back
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  to this podcast over and over again when you need some words of inspiration or
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  words to edify you, words to lift up your spirit. In fact,
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  if you love inspiring words like I do, you can go to my website
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  and subscribe to my Weekly Inspirations. That way you can get a breath of
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  fresh air in your inbox to start your week. I'll tell you more about
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  how to do that later in the podcast. Okay, all right, let's
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  get started. The most inspiring words come from wonderfully different cultures and different people.
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  But you know what. Ultimately, all of these words come from the
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  master Creator God. That's right, the great overall designer Hope. Hope is
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  powerful why because it inspires us to do the impossible. Hope helps us carry
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  on during difficult times. Hope can come in many different shapes and forms.
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  It may come through our favorite music or a good book, or even by
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  listening to our favorite thought leaders. However it comes through, Hope is a
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  powerful presence, a light to help us navigate through the darkness, a mighty
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  and beautiful beacon to guide us through the storm. Hope is the thing with
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  feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never
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  stops at all. You may not always have a comfortable life, and you
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  will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once.
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  But don't ever underestimate the importance you can have, because history has shown us
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  that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
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  Often, what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging
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  pathway to a far better place. Although the world is full of suffering,
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  it is also full of the overcoming of it, For I consider that the
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  sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that
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  shall be revealed in us. Faith is being sure of what we hope for
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  and certain of what we do not see. When you go through deep waters,
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  I will be with you. I don't know what the future may hold,
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  but I know who holds the future. Listen to the presences inside poems,
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  Let them take you where they will. Follow these private hints, and
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  never leave the premises. On the day of your birth, the Creator filled
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  countless storehouses and stockings with rich ointments, luscious tapestries, and antique coins of
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  incredible value, jewels worthy of a queen's dowry. They were set aside for
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  your use alone. Armed with faith and hope, and without knowing of the
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  wealth which awaited, you broke through dense walls of poverty and loosed the chains
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  of ignorance which threatened to cripple you, so that you could walk a free
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  woman into a world which needed you. My wish for you is that you
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  continue, continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean
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  world with your acts of kindness, continue to allow humor to lighten the burden
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  of your tender heart. Continue in a society dark with cruelty, to let
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  the people hear the grander of God and the peals of your laughter. Continue
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  to let your eloquence elevate the people to heights they had only imagined. Continue
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  to remind the people that each is as good as the other, and that
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  no one is beneath nor above you. Continue to remember your own young years
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  and look with favor upon the lost and the least and the lonely. Continue
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  to put the mantle of your protection around the bodies of the young and defenseless.
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  Continue to take the hand of the despised and diseased and walk proudly with
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  them in the high street. Some might see you and be encouraged to do
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  likewise. Continue to plant a public kiss of concern on the cheek of the
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  sick and the aged and infirm, and count that as a natural action to
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  be expected. Continue to let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to
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  say your nightly prayer, and let faith be the bridge you build to overcome
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  evil and welcome good. Continue to ignore no vision which comes to enlarge your
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  range and increase your spirit. Continue to dare to love deeply and risk everything
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  for the good thing. Continue to float happily in the sea of infinite substance,
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  which set aside riches for you before you had a name. Continue,
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  and by doing so, you and your work will be able to continue eternally.
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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a
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  single word. Freedom, justice, honor, beauty, mercy, hope.
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  Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of everything
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  that isn't you, all of the expectations, all of the beliefs, and
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  becoming who you are. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. I
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  have been a seeker, and I still am. But I stopped asking the
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  books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul.
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  Come new to this day. Remove the rigid overcoat of experience, the notion
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  of knowing, the beliefs that cloud your vision. Leave behind the stories of
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  your life. Spit out the sour taste of unmet expectation, Let the stale
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  scent of what ifs waft back into the swamp of your useless fears. Arrive
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  curious without the armor of certainty, the plans and the planned results of the
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  life you've imagined. Live the life that chooses you knew every breath, every
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  blink of your astonished eyes. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the
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  imagination, and instill a love of learning, love one another, and help
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  others to rise to the higher levels simply by pouring out love. Hope lies
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  in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to
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  make dreams into reality. The very least you can do in your life is
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  figure out what you hope for, And the most you can do is live
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  inside that hope, not admire it from a distance, but live right in
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  it under its roof. You are not here merely to make a living.
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  You are here in order to enable the world to live more aptly, with
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  greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here
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  to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the Errand there
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  is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an
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  island, and on that island there is an altar, and standing guard before
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  that altar is the angel with the flaming sword. Nothing can get by that
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  angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner
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  authority. Nothing passes the angel with the flaming sword to be placed upon your
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  altar unless it be a part of the fluid area of your consent. This
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  is your crucial link with the eternal. For years, copying other people,
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  I tried to know myself from within. I couldn't decide what to do,
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  unable to see. I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
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  The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to
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  sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to
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  sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds
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  touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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  Barns burnt down. Now I can see the moon. Life isn't about waiting
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  for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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  Now I know in part. Then I shall know fully even as I am
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  fully known. And now these three remain faith, hope, and love.
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  But the greatest of these is love. A dream is the bearer of a
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  new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. A lot of people
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  have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way.
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  But you can never give up hope, and you just really hold on
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  to it hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up,
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  and then you get that breakthrough. Darkness comes in the middle of it.
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  The future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't you
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  are in good company. You will argue with yourself that there is no way
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  forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and
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  ladders and tunnels out of the pits than you can conceive. Wait, pray
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  without ceasing Hope. Hope is the companion of power and mother of success.
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  For whoso hopes strongly has within them the gift of miracles. Hope begins in
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  the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to
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  do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and
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  work. The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a
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  source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. But
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  those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on
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  wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk
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  and not be faint inspirations. I just love these inspiring words, words that
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  have brought so much gratitude, encouragement, hope and joy into my life.
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  I sure hope these words have inspired you as well. Inspiration, you know
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  what. We all need a daily dose of it to keep us energized,
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  edified, and encouraged, to keep us lifted up, looking forward, and
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  on the path to be all we are meant to be. Here's what I
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  know. Inspiration is something we can joyfully pass on to those around us,
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  our family, our friends, our neighbors, and our coworkers. Now you
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  all know how much I love that word inspire, which comes from the Latin
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  inspirare. That's right in spirrare, which means to breathe into or to breathe
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  upon. So my prayer, my prayer, is that you let these words
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  just breathe into you. Let these words inspire you to new life, new
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  hope, new energy, and new joy. And as they breathe into you,
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  as these words minister to you, be sure to share the wealth,
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  share your blessings at somebody else's table. That's how you do it. That's
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  how you make your life count. If you want to be the change you
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  seek. Remember this, how you live is how you lead, It's how
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  you do everything right now, you have the power to make our world a
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  better place. You have that power within you all right now, Once again,
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  I want you to be sure to listen to this episode again and again
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  and again, and hey be sure to tell somebody. You can find me
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  right here on iTunes, Audible, Alexa, SoundCloud, iHeart, tune in,
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  spreaker, dot Com, Talk Network Radio, and so many other places.
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  Now, if you happen to miss any part of this week's episode,
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  or if you missed last week's, you can simply download the recording and listen
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  to it at your convenience. You can even listen to it on the go.
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  Forward Slash Legacy Living. You can learn more about my work and Legacy Living
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  Make your life count by visiting the Gloria Burgess website, And as I mentioned
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  earlier in this episode, you can subscribe to my inspirations on my website.
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  You just scroll down a little bit. You look on the right sidebar until
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  you see the place to add your email to subscribe to my weekly inspirations.
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  It's that simple, right, okay. So gain to learn more about me
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  and my work, just browse a little bit on my website, or you
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  can visit me on LinkedIn or Facebook and that's Facebook dot Com, forward slash
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  doctor Gloria Burgess, PhD and doctor is Dr Gloria Burgess, PhD. You
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  can also find me on the TEDx site and listen to one of my ted
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  talks. Just type in my name to find me there. Before I close
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  today, I want to thank each of you for tuning in to today's show
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  for allowing me to share a bit about my journey with what legacy living is
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  all about, not just living and learning, but living and learning and serving
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  so that you make a difference in your own life and in the lives of
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  others. It's about being on purpose every single day. Three sixty five twenty
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  four seven. Legacy living is a powerful way to make your life count.
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  Once again, I want to thank you for joining me for today's show.
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  I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, and this is Legacy living.
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  Make your life count. Please join me again next time for another episode of
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  Legacy Living. Make your life count. Don't just count the days in your
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  life. Make the days in your life count. That's what Legacy Living is
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  all about. Have a fantastic day and remember make the days in your life
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  count. God bless you. That's our show today. I'm your host,
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  Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join me again next time. Until
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  then, don't just count the days in your life. Make the days in
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  your life count. That's what Legacy Living is all about. Here's to you.
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  Have a fantastic day and be sure to make it a yes kind of
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  day. Remember to celebrate the music of your life. Make the days in
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  your life count.