Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast.

I'm your host Rob Dial.

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2025. So that is Goals with an S-20205.com. Today, I'm going to be talking to you about how to create

a great life. And I want to open up with a story that I found online that I think is

kind of a really great way to start it. And it says, imagine that you talk to the creator

of the universe before your birth, and you get to pick the person that you become. And you say to the

creator, I want to be the most courageous. And so the creator replies,

then I will give you monsters to terrify you so that you can conquer them. You say, I want to be

patient. And the creator replies, then I will make you work harder and longer so that you can

learn to wait. You say, I want to be wise.

The creator replies, then I will give you failures that crush your spirit so you can

learn the value of judgment.

Then you say, it sounds like a rough life though.

Can you give me a good life?

And the creator replies, just like we measure the quality of a blacksmith by the strength

of his steel, I measure you by what

you are at the end, not the fire and the hammer that it took to make you. A good life is not an easy life.

A good life makes you into a good person. And that, my son, is a hard life. So when you look at this, I want you to start to think about

what you want in your life and how skills to become a better person, strength, courage,

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