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Refresh Yourself! | Episode #445 · 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 so delighted that you joined me today.
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  Speaker 1: I have a very special show for you. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to share with you some of my favorite words of
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  Speaker 1: wisdom from some of my favorite people in the world. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to focus specifically on inspirational words. I'm
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  Speaker 1: also going to ask you to share the wealth. After
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  Speaker 1: you listen to this show, I want you to tell
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  Speaker 1: a friend, and I want you to come back to
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  Speaker 1: this podcast over and over and over again when you
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  Speaker 1: need some words of encouragement or words to edify you,
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  Speaker 1: words to lift your spirit. In fact, if you love
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  Speaker 1: inspiring words like I do, you can go to my
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  Speaker 1: website and subscribe to my Weekly Inspirations. That way you
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  Speaker 1: can get a breath of fresh air in your inbox
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  Speaker 1: to start your week. I'll tell you more about that
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  Speaker 1: later in the podcast. Okay, let's get started. The most
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  Speaker 1: inspiring words come from wonderfully different sources. Ultimately, the words
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  Speaker 1: come from the master Creator, God, the Great overall, designer
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  Speaker 1: art is human perception of natural beauty. It is also,
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  Speaker 1: in its very performance, the unique and miraculous beauty of
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  Speaker 1: being Human. Art washes from the soul the dust of
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  Speaker 1: everyday life. There is nothing more truly artistic. And to
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  Speaker 1: love people we shall draw from the heart of suffering itself,
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  Speaker 1: the means of inspiration and survival. This is precisely the
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  Speaker 1: time when artists go to work, not when everything is fine,
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  Speaker 1: but in times of dread. Imagination is the power that
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  Speaker 1: enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have
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  Speaker 1: never shared. Art is the only thing you cannot punch
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  Speaker 1: a button for. You must do it the old fashioned way.
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  Speaker 1: Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are
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  Speaker 1: no compromises. Every day, our streets and school buses become
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  Speaker 1: art galleries in the form of perfectly spiked hair, zigzagging cornrows,
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  Speaker 1: and dizzying shoelace artistry. No one is born hating another
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  Speaker 1: person because of the color of his skin, or his background,
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  Speaker 1: or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if
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  Speaker 1: they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.
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  Speaker 1: For love comes more naturally to the human heart than
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  Speaker 1: its opposite. We do not need magic to change the world.
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  Speaker 1: We carry all the power we need inside ourselves. Already
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  Speaker 1: we have the power to imagine something better. There is
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  Speaker 1: in every person an inward sea, and in that sea
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  Speaker 1: there is an island, And on that island there is
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  Speaker 1: an altar, and standing guard before that altar is the
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  Speaker 1: Angel with the flaming Sword. Nothing can get by that
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  Speaker 1: angel to be placed upon the altar unless it has
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  Speaker 1: the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes the Angel
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  Speaker 1: with the flaming sword to be placed upon your altar
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  Speaker 1: unless it be a part of the fluid area of
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  Speaker 1: your consent. This is your crucial link with the eternal.
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  Speaker 1: If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty
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  Speaker 1: and joy, it will, in the end not produce food either.
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  Speaker 1: Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready,
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  Speaker 1: and move it to tenderness. And the day came when
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  Speaker 1: the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud
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  Speaker 1: was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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  Speaker 1: It's the little things citizens do that's what will make
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  Speaker 1: the difference. My little thing is planting trees. One generation
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  Speaker 1: plants trees, another enjoys the shade. There are two ways
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  Speaker 1: to live your life. One is as though nothing is
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  Speaker 1: a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: You must give birth to your images. They are the
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  Speaker 1: future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel.
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  Speaker 1: The future must enter you long before it happens. The
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  Speaker 1: heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. Your
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  Speaker 1: heart is that large. Trust it keep breathing. Do not
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  Speaker 1: think that love, in order to be genuine, has to
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  Speaker 1: be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
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  Speaker 1: The shadows and rain of today will nourish the blossoms
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  Speaker 1: of tomorrow. Let us put our minds together and see
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  Speaker 1: what life we can make for our children. There are
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  Speaker 1: only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.
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  Speaker 1: One is roots, the other.
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  Speaker 2: Wings.
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  Speaker 1: If you save one person, you save the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: You get the best efforts from others not by lighting
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  Speaker 1: a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
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  Speaker 1: You are a lake with a channel to the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Be a shame to seek water from a pool. We
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  Speaker 1: are the mirror as well as the face in it.
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  Speaker 1: We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We
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  Speaker 1: are pain, and what cures pain we are the sweet
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  Speaker 1: cold water and the jar that pours out. Beyond ideas
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  Speaker 1: of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll
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  Speaker 1: meet you there. Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy,
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  Speaker 1: the chance to draw back, always in effectiveness. Concerning all
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  Speaker 1: acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth,
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  Speaker 1: the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
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  Speaker 1: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
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  Speaker 1: All sorts of things occur to help one that would
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  Speaker 1: never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues
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  Speaker 1: from the decision raising in one's favor, all manner of
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  Speaker 1: unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man
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  Speaker 1: could have dreamt would have come his way. I have
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  Speaker 1: learned a deep respect for one of Gert's couplets. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you can do or dream, you can beget it. Boldness
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  Speaker 1: has genius, power and magic in it. Where there is
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  Speaker 1: no vision, the people perish. I try to make my
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  Speaker 1: mind large as the universe is large, so that there
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  Speaker 1: is room for paradoxes. Your language is the distance between
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  Speaker 1: you and what you need. You cannot think any deeper
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  Speaker 1: than your vocabulary will allow you to. You can't be
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  Speaker 1: what you can't see. Sometimes our light goes out, but
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  Speaker 1: it is blown again into flame by an encounter with
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  Speaker 1: another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks
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  Speaker 1: to those who have rekindled this inner light. Never let
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  Speaker 1: the cacophony of your mind drown out the symphony of
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  Speaker 1: your heart. Speak from your heart. Don't bottle up your
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  Speaker 1: music or your voice. Be brave. Poetry is a balancing
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  Speaker 1: between intellect and intuition, and if one must choose between
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  Speaker 1: the two, one should always fall on the side of intuition.
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  Speaker 1: Art is human perception of natural beauty. It is also,
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  Speaker 1: in its very performance, the unique and miraculous beauty of
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  Speaker 1: being human. The experience of art, it's making, and its enjoyment,
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  Speaker 1: is what makes us both human and humane. According to
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  Speaker 1: the ancient scriptures oral and written of people worldwide, one
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  Speaker 1: of the main purposes of music in life is to
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  Speaker 1: lead to uplift and enlightenment, establish and maintain moral consciousness
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  Speaker 1: and responsibility, and to assist in the continued spiritual evolution
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  Speaker 1: of humanity. There is a vitality, a life force, a
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  Speaker 1: quickening that is translated through you into action, and because
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  Speaker 1: there is only one of you in all time. The
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  Speaker 1: expression is.
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  Speaker 2: Unique, and if you block it, it will never exist
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  Speaker 2: through any other medium, and it will be lost.
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  Speaker 1: It is not your business to determine how good it is,
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  Speaker 1: not how valuable it is, not how it compares with
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  Speaker 1: other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours,
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  Speaker 1: clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. I have
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  Speaker 1: never thought of writing for the reputation and honor. What
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  Speaker 1: I have in my heart must come out. That is
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I compose in this endeavor to wed
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  Speaker 1: the vision of the old world with that of the new.
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  Speaker 1: It is the writer, not the statesman, who is our
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  Speaker 1: strongest arm, though we do not wholly believe it yet,
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  Speaker 1: the interior life is a real life, and the intangible
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  Speaker 1: dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ask what the world needs, Ask what makes you
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  Speaker 1: come alive, and go do it, because what the world
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  Speaker 1: needs is more people who have come a lot life inspirations.
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  Speaker 1: I just love these inspiring words, words that have brought
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  Speaker 1: so much gratitude, hope and joy into my life. I
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  Speaker 1: hope these words have inspired you as well. That word
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  Speaker 1: inspire comes from the Latin inspirare. Don't you just love
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  Speaker 1: the sound of that inspiare, which means to breathe into
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  Speaker 1: or to breathe upon. So let these words just breathe
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  Speaker 1: into you. Let these words inspire you to new life,
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  Speaker 1: new hope, new joy as they breathe into you and
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  Speaker 1: minister to you. Now, I want you to be sure
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  Speaker 1: don't keep it all to yourself. Share the wealth, share
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  Speaker 1: your blessings at somebody else's table. That's how you do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you make your life count. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to be the change you seek, remember this. How you
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  Speaker 1: live is how you lead. You have the power to
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  Speaker 1: make our world a better place. All right. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to be sure to listen to this podcast again
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  Speaker 1: and again, and hey, be sure to tell somebody. You
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  Speaker 1: about my work and Legacy Living make your life count
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  Speaker 1: by visiting the Gloria Burgess website. That's the Gloria Burgess website.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned earlier in the show that you can
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  Speaker 1: it's that simple. So again, to learn more about me
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  Speaker 1: and my work, just browse a bit on my website
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  Speaker 1: all right, before I close today, I want to thank
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  Speaker 1: each of you for tuning in to our show for
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  Speaker 1: allowing me to share a bit about my journey with
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  Speaker 1: what legacy living is all about not just living and learning,
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  Speaker 1: but living and learning and serving so that you make
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  Speaker 1: a difference in your own life, life and in the
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  Speaker 1: lives of others. It's about being on purpose every single day.
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  Speaker 1: Three sixty five twenty four seven. Legacy living is a
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  Speaker 1: powerful way to make your life count. Once again, I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank you for joining me for today's show.
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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 on Talk Network Radio for another
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  Speaker 1: show of legacy living. Make your life count. Don't just
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  Speaker 1: count the days in your life. Make the days in
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  Speaker 1: your life count. That's what legacy living is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Have a fantastic day and remember make the days in
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  Speaker 1: your life count. God bless that's our show today. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join
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  Speaker 1: me again next time. Until then, don't just count the
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  Speaker 1: days in your life, Make the days in your life count.
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  Speaker 1: That's what legacy living is all about. Here's to you
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  Speaker 1: have a fantastic day and be sure to make it
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  Speaker 1: a yes kind of day. Remember to celebrate the music
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  Speaker 1: of your life, make the days in your life count