Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals Podcast with Hell Elrod. I'm your host Nick Paul Kuski and you're listening to the show that is guaranteed to help you take your life to the next level faster than you ever thought possible.

In each episode you will learn from someone who has achieved extraordinary goals that most have it.

He is the author of the number one best-selling book The Miracle Morning, a Hall of Fame

Business Achiever, an international keynote speaker,

ultra marathon runner, and the founder of the IP success coaching.com.

Mr. Hal O'Rah.

Hey everybody, welcome to the Achievous Goals podcast podcast this is your host and your friend

Hal Elrod and today I've got something a little different for you and it actually

should be a relatively short podcast and I know in the past when I say that it

never is but today I'm actually going to read something to you so I think that keeps it

a little more controlled as long as I don't ad lib too much at the end.

But what I'm going to read to you is actually a letter from a girl named Katie and

and my response to her letter and then her response to my response and the way this came

about is I was actually I'm preparing for our upcoming best year ever coaching call and as I was preparing for our coaching module,

which the topic is holistic happiness.

I was doing a search on my computer

to see if I had anything I'd ever written

or recorded on the topic of happiness and I came across this article that I wrote in 2008

for Bliss magazine on the topic of how to choose happiness and it's based on

my response to this letter from Katie and her letter to me and what how she responded to my response and she wrote to me she

was a college student feeling hopeless and telling me about her depression and why she can't be happy.

And you'll hear her letter, my response, and then you'll see in her final response how she was able to immediately apply the

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