Have you had the good fortune to share your days with someone who knew the secret of life? You would know if you had.

People who know the secret are happy almost all the time because they know happiness has nothing to do with circumstances. They create their own happiness by living into the secret.

The secret of life is not closely guarded; anyone can learn it; you need only watch the people who are happy in good times and bad. Pay attention to how they spend their time, their money, and their lives…and in no time at all, you will discover the secret as well.

The secret of life is so simple:

Do everything you can to die broke!

Are you mystified by this? Stop and think about it.

We all bring gifts, talents, skills, and unique personality traits into this world, and our many gifts only become beneficial as we release them into the lives of those around us. The purpose of life is to discover, develop, and dispense our gifts with reckless abandon!

The people who seem happy whether they are living in relative poverty or extraordinary luxury are the ones who understand that life cannot be hoarded, set aside for a rainy day, locked away in a vault, or invested for the future. It can only be spent.

This moment is a gift of indescribable worth whose value is only realized when it is given away. If you want to live–to truly live–you must do everything you can to die broke!

Here’s the best part: ask anyone who has learned this secret and they will tell you they are anything but impoverished. Within a few short days, or hours, or maybe even moments of living into the secret of life, they discovered the secret within the secret of life.

I suppose you would like to know the secret within the secret of life?

It, too, is simple.

The more you try to die broke, the richer you become!

The people who spend their lives giving themselves away soon find their lives filled with priceless memories of those they’ve love, those who’ve loved them, and the countless people who crossed their paths and changed them forever.

When you try to give yourself away, you spark a similar response in everyone around you. In no time at all, you know you are loved and you know the people around you know you love them.

And in the end, that is what we all want to know and that is what allows us to rest. In the end, if we have discovered the secret and lived into it as best we can, we can rest…in peace. Forever. Amen.

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