Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every

week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement. And I am just so glad

that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Hello my friends, it's Sally Clarkson and welcome to Add Home with Sally and friends.

I have fewer friends around me right now to interview because I can't. I'm in lockdown,

but I will add a few friends here and there as we go along. I am so happy to have you

joining me today. This is 2021 January and as I do most years and I may not do it every

year, but I am going through some of the chapters of my book that I wrote called Own Your Life.

And why do I go through this every year and have a study on it? It's because, well for

one thing, haven't we all been out of control of our lives this year? We all need a little

bit of reminding of who we are and what we're doing with everything that's happened. But

another reason I do it is because I think that whatever you plan and whatever you determine

your goals to be, which change every year because your job is different, your children

are different ages, your maybe you move to a new town, maybe you're in a new church,

whatever it is. I have found that refreshing my goals in January of every year is so very

important. And also I was pondering this the other day, why do I keep doing this because

sometimes I think maybe I should just retire. I don't know if I could ever retire that

would that wouldn't be a lot of fun because I enjoy working and writing and I enjoy carrying

for the people I do in my ministry and doing my membership and doing all the things.

So that probably won't happen anytime soon, though I may slow down some of my goals a little

bit. But one of the reasons that I do this podcast and why I'm doing this study right

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