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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell Zoo Tavern and Albert Ernest Bullock, published in 1936.

Life is a journey, which all of us make but once. There is no round-trip ticket. This journey,

according to present-day reckoning, lasts about 75 years on average.

Some people are able to extend the journey a little longer. Others ended in much less time.

It is not the number of years, but the values we get out of the years that count the most.

Whether to live at a slow pace over a long period of time, or whether to burn up energy at a lively pace and have it over within a short period of time, is a question each individual can decide for themselves.

Many people who have a short and unhappy journey make the fatal mistake of starting out on the

wrong road. In the maze of detours, side roads and blind alleys, it is easy for anyone to become confused, or perhaps

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