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I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.

Hi, dear ones. Welcome back to House of Joy. It's episode 216 and we are talking about steps to creating a grand

vision for your future, living really more in the big picture of your life, zooming out from all the

daily problems, the daily circumstances that worry us and frustrate us and really

keeping in mind like what you really want your life to be about, what really matters to you.

And I think when I am able to do this, I enjoy my present moment so much better.

I read a quote recently.

I can't remember the exact quote,

but it's by Dan Sullivan. And he said, if you want to build a better today, if you want a better

present moment, you need a bigger vision for your future. You need a grander outlook on what your

future is about. And I know I've read things like that from the scriptures to that we do

need a vision. We need to remember what the big picture is. And I think so often in so many areas of

our lives, it's so easy to get lost in just the daily grind. Can I get an amen? It is really easy

to get lost in the daily grind. to get lost in the stresses and the

pressures of today and to forget what really matters to us, what we really want our lives to be

about who we are going to need to become in order to fulfill our own vision for our future.

So we're going to talk about that a little bit today. We're going to talk about several main areas where you can think about this in. So I'm going to give you some questions

to think about and some areas of your life where you can really think about this question in.

I actually, let me share a quick personal story. I just got back from Pittsburgh. So I went to

Pittsburgh yesterday. Me and my daughter, Emmy, woke up at like 3 a.m. flew out to Pittsburgh to be

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