This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1785.

And X-R from the book, you end up where you're heading.

By Jimmy Rex and Cameron Carling, and I'm Joseph Ollick,

your personal narrator reading to you from the best articles that I can find

with permission from the authors, and sometimes books too, like today.

I'll tell you about the authors right after the reading, so for now let's get right to it

as we optimize your life.

In X-R from the book, you end up where you're heading,

by Jimmy Rex and Cameron Carling.

Have you ever thought to yourself, poor me?

I have, if not in those exact words, then in that sentiment,

as a single guy around the holidays, I always felt more sorry for myself than grateful.

After several years of wallowing in my loneliness, I decided to force myself back into the

giving spirit by volunteering with a charity, and that decision changed my life.

And oversight of the charity left me scrambling to find gifts for an underprivileged family,

and what felt at first like an inconvenience turned out to be the most rewarding way to spend

the holidays ever. I now believe anyone can uncover the rewards

in their personal struggles. By sharing my story, I hope you'll see how a change in perspective

can help you find happiness like it did for me. Deciding to give

That lonely holiday season, I decided to raise money for charity called Sub for Santa.

I would run a date auction and enlisted my most generous single friends to step up and help

meet the goal of raising enough money to fund Christmas for three or four families.

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