Hello and happy new year. I am so excited to be back, to be bringing you some fresh

episodes of the Work and Play podcast moving forward, and to start this year off on the right foot,

encouraging you in your work and in your play. Happy 2022.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 139.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

Let's dive in.

You may or may not know that I have been on a six-month sabbatical from work from this podcast,

from social media since my sweet fourth baby was born in July of 2021.

And it has given me such a gift, the gift of time, the gift of perspective, just to really stop and weigh what I want to do with my life,

how I want to spend my time, and especially what I want to do with my work.

And one thing was really clear.

For now, I want to keep the podcast going.

I really enjoy it.

I enjoy this medium.

I'm so grateful for the feedback that so many of you have given me on the encouragement, saying that you enjoy it. I enjoy this medium. I'm so grateful for the feedback that so many of you have given me

on the encouragement saying that you enjoy the podcast. And my hope and prayer is that these few

minutes that we spend together each week will continue to be an encouragement, a challenge,

and hopefully a light in these crazy times that we are living in.

So today, I want to leave you with two ideas, two ways for you to think about your work

and play, two ways that you can hopefully enhance your work and play this year.

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