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Speaker 1: ask me anything you want. We've been doing this since

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen together Email me podcast at grangersmith dot com.

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Speaker 1: And the last time we were together last week, I

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Speaker 1: this podcast is now we're looking forward. Maybe this could

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Speaker 1: should all be asking, how can I grow this year?

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Speaker 1: And you could define grow in many ways. You could

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Speaker 1: was last year. You know, I grant you guys, most

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Speaker 1: And typically I answer your questions podcast at grangersmith dot com,

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Speaker 1: be thinking through it as you're listening to this one

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Speaker 1: So I put together ten ten little titles here that

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Speaker 1: Ant Man can fill my calendar. Paul Amber, there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a crew, Chris Ly, There's a crew that could

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Speaker 1: at any time go in there and say at eleven am,

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Speaker 1: Granger has an interview on this person's radio show or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So I had to learn a few years ago that

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Speaker 1: I needed to schedule rest, So I literally put in

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Speaker 1: all caps hold for rest, so to be like on

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Speaker 1: the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth, I'll say I'll block all

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Speaker 1: three days it says hold for rest, And I'll do

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Speaker 1: that when I when I glance at the calendar and

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward, and I see there's there's some either

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of different things I have to do,

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Speaker 1: maybe a lot of travel, or it could be just

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Speaker 1: a few things I have to do, but they're heavy

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Speaker 1: thinking things, and I know coming out of that or

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Speaker 1: another way is I'm going into a bunch of heavy

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Speaker 1: thinking things. Then I should give you an example of

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Speaker 1: production company that wants to come to my house and

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Speaker 1: interview me about river or the ministry something like that,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna they're gonna be here for five hours.

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Speaker 1: And that's a heavy thinking thing because that's gonna put me.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to do that, it's a joy to

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Speaker 1: share my testimony, but that would put me in a

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Speaker 1: position where I'm just kind of drained afterward.

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Speaker 2: So the next day I.

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Speaker 1: Need to hold for rest in my calendar. Instead of

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Speaker 1: just being busy. We should always ask am I living

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Speaker 1: with purpose? Yeah, But whenever this world glorifies burnout, right,

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Speaker 1: Jesus advites us to rest. So we should build a

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Speaker 1: rhythm of work and rest that honors health, family, according

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Speaker 1: to God's design for our life.

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Speaker 2: So important.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's gonna look back on their life

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Speaker 1: and go, I just I wish I wouldn't have rested

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Speaker 1: so much, you know, I don't think anyone's gonna say that.

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Speaker 1: And I think we would be shocked to know that

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Speaker 1: the more we rested and the more our battery we charged,

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Speaker 1: the more productive we would have been if we would

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Speaker 1: have blocked for days of rest. And by the way

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Speaker 1: I do that hold for rest, I probably don't do

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Speaker 1: it nearly enough. So this is something I'm going to

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Speaker 1: lean into. Number eight, Speak life into others. Words have power.

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Speaker 1: This year, we should commit to speaking encouragement. I say

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Speaker 1: words have power. That's probably a massive understatement. We should

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Speaker 1: speak encouragement, truth, love into the lives around us, into

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Speaker 1: those people, and not just the people that matter the most.

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Speaker 1: But we should be the person that speaks encouragement and

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Speaker 1: life and love and truth consistently. We get to be

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Speaker 1: known as the person that does that. So whether that's

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Speaker 1: the person in the drive through window, or the person

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Speaker 1: at the the person at the church sitting next to you,

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Speaker 1: or your own wife, and the greatest span of of

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Speaker 1: all the people that are around us, we should be the

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Speaker 1: people that hold back from speaking things that tear down You.

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Speaker 1: Remember people say this all the time that my grandma

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Speaker 1: used to tell me, if I can't say anything nice,

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Speaker 1: don't say anything at all. There is something so true

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Speaker 1: about that. And although not saying anything at all it

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Speaker 1: could equally get you in trouble, sometimes it's typically the

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Speaker 1: better option. It's always the better option than breaking, than

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Speaker 1: tearing someone down. Because, as we said it just a

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Speaker 1: few points ago, number five, choose forgiveness over bitterness. How

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Speaker 1: many times does this forgiveness? Choosing forgiveness over bitterness come from?

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Speaker 1: The necessity comes from some words that were spoken in anger,

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Speaker 1: some words that were spoken as someone else tore someone down.

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Speaker 1: And this podcast, as I answer questions, so much of

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Speaker 1: what I answer is based on someone tore somebody down

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Speaker 1: with words. If someone spoke out of pride or anger

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Speaker 1: or resentment or impatience, our misunderstanding, but they spoke with anger,

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Speaker 1: So we should speak life proverbs eighteen twenty one reminds

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Speaker 1: us that the tongue has the power.

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Speaker 2: Of life and death.

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Speaker 1: Choose life this year.

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Speaker 2: Number nine.

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Speaker 1: Expect challenges, but look for growth.

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Speaker 2: This year.

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Speaker 1: And I said a little bit earlier, this year will

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Speaker 1: have challenges for all of us. I'm not some kind

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Speaker 1: of freaky profit, but I can tell you right now

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Speaker 1: you will have extreme challenges this year. I encourage so

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Speaker 1: many times people to journal. I use an app called

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Speaker 1: day one. I believe that that costs money. I believe

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Speaker 1: it's there's a small monthly fee, so I'm willing to

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Speaker 1: pay the monthly fee because it's so convenient. Day one

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Speaker 1: it ques the next day up for me. It stores

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Speaker 1: everything really nicely on the cloud. I could quickly access

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Speaker 1: what happened in the year's previous right there. But you

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Speaker 1: don't have to You certainly don't have to use it.

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Speaker 1: You could use any kind of note note taking app.

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Speaker 1: I actually recommend digital over spiral notebooks because because I

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Speaker 1: think for me, the most important thing about journaling is

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Speaker 1: keeping and reading the previous years, because that's what gives

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Speaker 1: you the perspective. So as we go through challenges that

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Speaker 1: sometimes feel like the whole world is caving, in on us.

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Speaker 1: We could read and look back and in subsequent years

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Speaker 1: and say, you know, it wasn't that big a deal,

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Speaker 1: or it was a big deal, and I saw, I

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Speaker 1: saw the strength that it took to get through it,

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Speaker 1: and it worked. And so you can encourage yourself, your

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Speaker 1: old self. Sometimes I'll ask myself my future self questions

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Speaker 1: in the journal.

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Speaker 2: I'll say, this is.

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Speaker 1: Tough, future self, how does this turn out? And then

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Speaker 1: I'll answer myself and say, hey, twenty twenty three, I

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Speaker 1: know it seems crazy, but it's all going to work out, And.

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Speaker 2: Then I'll answer it.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes i'll answer that and I'll say, hey, twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: you were right. It even gets better than you know.

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Speaker 1: So it's like these different versions of myself talking. And

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Speaker 1: we could expect challenges, but I think God, I know,

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Speaker 1: God works through these challenges to grow us. I say

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Speaker 1: a lot of times when I'm preaching, I'll say something

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Speaker 1: like this is this is the molten metal is when

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Speaker 1: you know that you're finally ready for the hand of

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Speaker 1: the blacksmith. But it takes the heat, it takes the

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Speaker 1: pressure for that mold, that that warped metal to finally

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Speaker 1: be melted and ready for the hand of the blacksmith

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Speaker 1: to shape it into what it needs to be, what

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Speaker 1: it's designed to be, what its purposes. So these trials

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Speaker 1: and whatever challenges we will face, that's what God is

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Speaker 1: using to grow us, to mold us. James one two

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Speaker 1: to four says remind he says, count it all joy,

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Speaker 1: my brothers. When we face trials of various kinds, these

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't think of the trials themselves as the joy.

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Speaker 1: It's like, yay, joy, you know, joy, I'm going through

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Speaker 1: this tough time, but you should count it as joy

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Speaker 1: because through that comes the endurance and the maturity. So

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Speaker 1: there isn't a question if you will face challenges this year.

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Speaker 2: You will.

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Speaker 1: The question is will you grow from them? Will you

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Speaker 1: choose to let that trial grow you?

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Speaker 2: And then number ten only if you will hear this.

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Speaker 2: Not everyone.

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Speaker 1: I've tried to make all of these for everyone, but

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Speaker 1: not everyone will hear this one. Keep an eternal perspective.

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Speaker 1: Life is short, but eternity is long. Not everyone will

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Speaker 1: believe that, but Christians speaking to you, this year will

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Speaker 1: be another year to live with Heaven and mine making

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Speaker 1: decisions that echo throughout eternity, not just what makes us

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Speaker 1: feel good right now. And for those that don't share

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Speaker 1: that same faith, you could ask this, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: mad about it if you ask what kind of legacy

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Speaker 1: am I leaving behind? What are the legacy decisions I'm

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Speaker 1: making for my kids? What are the legacy decisions I'm

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Speaker 1: making for my brand new career? What are the legacy

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Speaker 1: decisions I'm making for this this, this date, this person

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Speaker 1: I'm dating. Is this just sport dating for fun right now?

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Speaker 1: Or am I thinking long term? And when I'm talking

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Speaker 1: long term and you're dating, I'm not just talking about

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Speaker 1: marriage so that you're happy.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about children. I'm talking about the fruit of your.

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Speaker 1: Life, the arrows from your quiver, the continuation of your

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Speaker 1: father's name. You can think of in that way your legacy.

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Speaker 1: What legacy do you want to leave behind? And that

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Speaker 1: makes up my ten here. I didn't think too much

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Speaker 1: on this, y'all. I didn't. This is not something that

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Speaker 1: I've been working on for the last six months. These

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Speaker 1: are These are very general. There's not really an order

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Speaker 1: besides number one, start with a foundation that last. But

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Speaker 1: other than that, we could you could put those out

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Speaker 1: of order and then comment below. If you're on a

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Speaker 1: if you're listening on a platform that allows comments, comment

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Speaker 1: and let me know what you think of this list,

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Speaker 1: what you would add to this list, what you disagree

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Speaker 1: with on this list, And perhaps I would listen back

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Speaker 1: to this and want to correct myself too, because this

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Speaker 1: is all on the fly, so maybe I would want

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Speaker 1: to listen back and go.

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Speaker 2: I think I could have tweaked that a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: But hopefully this is a good a good way to

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Speaker 1: kick us off into the year and to maybe are

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Speaker 1: a couple questions that you could ask podcast at grangersmith

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Speaker 1: dot com. Sure, love, y'all. I'm glad to be with

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Speaker 1: you another year. See you next Monday. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: me on the Grangersmith podcast. I appreciate all of you guys.

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Speaker 1: You could help me out by rating this podcast on iTunes.

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