Hey, hello. Hey, it's a hello. Hey, what's up? Welcome to what we call our weekly pep talk.

This is our five minute or less podcast you put out on Sunday nights, just to give you

some little motivation to get you into your week. If you like these cool, come on back

and we'll do them every Sunday night. If you don't, you can skip over them. It's no big

deal. We have five episodes to serve. My mom is boy up for you this week. Thank you

for keeping us on and my mom and her pep talk on the way next.

I came across a quote this week that really made me pause and think about it. It's from

Daisaku Akita. Forgive me if I butch that name up. But the quote is a genuinely happy person

is one who has rendered others happy. Now, I have to say that there is nothing in this

world that gives me more joy than making my friends, my colleagues, my family. Anyone

I know happy doing something wonderful for them or helping them in some way or preparing

a special dinner for someone or Maggie's been here this weekend and it's been wonderful

to just wait on her hand and foot and it's been terrific. It makes me very happy. But there's

a flip side to this story for me. That is that in making others happy, do you give yourself

away? And what I mean by that is I'm reflecting back on my wonderful 24 years at Rainbow Village

and that work that definitely made me happy and made others happy because it helped families

that were homeless get back on their feet and children to have a better life, you know,

have a better future for themselves, for their families. I mean, it was all good work. But,

you know, at the end of that 24 years, what I realized was that, you know, it was working

so hard to make everyone else's life better that maybe I forgot about my own life and was I

really okay? How was I doing? And the real wake-up call, you know, which always slaps us in our

face because our bodies will eventually tell us was on the opening day of the last phase of our

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