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Today's episode is Living a Meaningful Life, Creating Surprises.

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Hi there, I hope you're doing fabulously well.

Several years ago, I produced a podcast episode called 50 Ways to Create a Meaningful Life.

And since then, I've taken a few of those 50 and elaborated on those topics and made

their own individual episodes, and that's what we're going to do today.

I have heard from so many of you who really appreciated that episode, the 50 Ways, but

also the individual episodes on living a meaningful life, and so I wanted to just make

sure we're still adding those to our repertoire.

So today's episode is on creating surprises, which was number 39 in the 50 Ways to Create

a Meaningful Life.

Making plans includes creating surprises, making plans, and I'll talk more about that.

And number 40 was bee spontaneous, so it's both of those things, but make plans creating

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