As many of us enter retirement, we often assume the tough stuff is behind us.

But what if doing hard things now is exactly what gives the next chapter its meaning?

Embracing Challenge can unlock vitality, resilience, and it is my mission here on the podcast to deliver clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life. If you're new to the show, I want you to know what to expect, what to look out for. We have both non-financial and financially-based conversations for those over 50.

If you're looking for those financially-based conversations, we just started naming those

specifically by the numbers.

So you can look for those episodes titled By the Numbers, released every other Friday

between these episodes you're joining us for today, which is on the non-financial

side of retirement freedom after 50. So if you're looking for the number stuff, maybe this isn't

for you or maybe it's exactly what you need right now. Today I am joined by my good friend,

Les McDaniel, our certified retirement coach here at Howard Bailey Financial, to discuss

an article that came to us from Net Worthwhile Weekly titled The Narrow Path, Why Choosing

Hard Things is Your Best Investment.

And I want to go ahead and tee up a hard thing for you to maybe do right now.

I know it was a hard thing for me when I bit the bullet, but that is unlocking your core values.

We have a giveaway today, a white paper, actually not even a white paper, a worksheet that

less put together that gives you a step-by-step process, a five-step process specifically

to unlock the power of your core values.

You can get that worksheet by texting us the word power to 888-599-4491 and the man, the legend, himself, Les McDaniel.

I'm here, my friend.

Let's do this.

Oh, Les, we're talking about doing hard things. And this article was not going to make it in a weekend reading. I can tell you that. I had already throwing this one aside. I made my decisions. I like this article. I thought this is a great article. I shared it with some of my friends. And I went into your office and said, hey, Les, what are we going to talk about? And so we're going to talk about this article. And I said, well, I already decided I wasn't going to do that article. And he said, well, we need to do this one because you said yourself, you've shared this with many friends. I think you said you shared with all your kids. Yeah. I said to my wife, my kids. Yeah.

It's been down the list of people because, I mean, we've been through some hard things, but there's also something about having gone through hard things that were not chosen, which we'll get into more later on too. The reality is, is that once you've gone through the hard things that you don't necessarily choose, you kind of want the easy life a little bit more. You're kind of like, can I just get a break for a little while? And yet you forget that there's

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