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The other day my wife, Nanette, and I were talking. I said something I want to share here because it is part of my message of living the life of your dreams.

Nanette loves decorating and designing. And me - well not so much. I love money and the ideas I am sharing in my book. And Nanette - well, not so much.

I said something like this: “Nanette, you know how you love decorating and designing things? When you wake up in the morning the first thing you do is look around the room and see things you would like to do and change. When you see me, the first thing you think about is whether my clothes match or not ( which they sometimes don’t). Well, that’s the way I am about the ideas in my new book and about money. These ideas are just part of me, like the way you feel about decorating and designing things is part of you.”

Now, here’s what I’d like to share with you who are reading this right now. I realize I will never become that interested in decorating or designing things. And Nanette will never be as interested in writing and money the way I am. But the beauty of our relationship is that we accept and celebrate our uniqueness, the things that make both of us who we are, even though we are very different in many ways.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is my new book and how I hope to get my message across to people everywhere. I used to wake up and the first thing I thought of was something about money and savings, but this new message has taken its place because it brings together all the things I’ve thought and wondered about my entire life.

Each of us is born with certain unique interests and we just naturally think of them. We haven’t chosen them over people and other things in our lives. They just are. When these thoughts and ideas are accepted and encouraged it makes us even happier.

The Bible calls them “talents.” Best-selling author Barbara Sher has the same message - that we are each to bring out those interests and find our work related to them. She isn’t advocating changing your spouse, just how you spend more of your time. It is motivating and energizing and fun!

My message is the same. We are to find and recognize those talents, our unique potentials, and bring them forth because that is where happiness lives for us. In my mind at least, my message extends the concept that we are to do the things we love but to do them with the purpose of being “in service to” our loved ones. I am to think how bringing forth my best potential at this time is, and can also be, a blessing to my loved ones. Then I am to help them do the same, which means to help them bring forth their talents in service to their loved ones. That is Love (the verb), and it is part of the never ending Circle of Love.

That’s also the Christmas message, which sometimes gets lost in the process of the cultural ritual of buying and giving gifts. The purpose of gifts is to make the person happy. But we all have so many material things. What will make us happiest is acceptance and support as we find and bring forth our potentials.

Happy holidays,

Jerry W. Willis

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Love,

Jerry W. Willis

www.jerrywwillis.com

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