Welcome to Living Happy, a super short weekly encouragement sharing insights and action steps for living a happy life.

Every week I'm going to be sharing a passage from my book, The Year of Living Happy, and it's available on October 2.

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So let's dive in today for today's Living Happy Minute. Take a step toward your passion.

Remember when you were just starting out in life?

Back then, it seemed like life was presenting you with limitless opportunities and possibilities,

but now maybe it feels like you've already made your big life choices,

and you might have missed that window of opportunity.

Let me assure you it's never

too late to start something new. How do I know? I know because history is filled with so many

examples of people who stepped into their passion later in lives. Benjamin Franklin, he

discovered the properties of electricity when he was 40.

Julia Child made her debut TV appearance at 51, and J.R.R. Tolkien published the Lord of the Rings when he was 62. Then there was Abraham. Abraham was 75 years old when God called him to go to

the land of Canaan and promised him offspring, while his wife, Sarah,

was not much younger. They had spent years dreaming of what it would be like to have a family,

and then God promised them children at the ripe old ages of 75 and 65. But he didn't give them

their firstborn until Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90.

Think about what it would be like to have a promise from God that wouldn't be fulfilled

until 25 years later.

But still, Abraham spent each and every day taking one step after another toward the promises

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