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Welcome to the program today.

We're going to continue some things from last week.

I talked to you a bit about building out your life where it consists of a collection of hobbies. What would your life be like if everything for the most part you devoted your time to felt like a hobby? I'm talking about a whole list of things that you would do even if you didn't have to. We listed five things last week, making money, maybe as your primary job or maybe in a secondary way, but fueling

the other things in your life with something that either you enjoy very much or that pays very

direct personal dividends. Number two, a hobby that keeps you healthy. We sometimes associate health

with hard, and of course, all great things start out hard, but there are certain things you can

choose to make habits in your life that can be enjoyable and help you have more energy to do good

and enjoy life. Number three, a creative outlet, some way in which you are

creating things, things that other people can enjoy, things that may feed back towards your business,

but that bring joy to you and to others. Number four, building your knowledge, something that

you've genuinely come to make a habit, something you enjoy that's helping

you learn things or understand things better, specifically of course things related to Christ and

your walk, but maybe any other number of things using reading or personal classes or YouTube

to grow. And then number five was improve your mindset, something that helps you become a

better human, something that is making your life more purposeful, and yet the growing in that is not

laborious, it is rewarding. What we did not get to talk about as much last week is how, how do you

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