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So, well, hi, everybody. It's David George Brooke, that gratitude guy, with my new program
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Encore Endeavor, Fulfilling Your Greater Purpose. And today I have Ted Taylor with me today to talk
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about just his experience in the beta program. And so, Ted, take it away. Well, first of all
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this was a surprise to me. I didn't know that I would get an opportunity. I've been thinking about
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retirement and this concept. I'm in the nonprofit world, which is intense, running a homeless
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shelter. And I thought, how in the world could I ever consider retirement? And when you introduced
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me to the possibility of a conversation about retirement, I had no idea how it was going to go
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But I have to tell you, the number one thing that happened for me through this entire process
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was the joy of discovery. I rediscovered things that I never thought about for many, many years
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out of my childhood, that are really passions deep inside that you were able to draw out
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through a series of questions. I find it fascinating that the process you've developed
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is not one of telling me. It was more of asking me. It is in the questioning that draws out this
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beautiful tapestry of a history of things that I may not have, I may have recessed back in my mind
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so I discovered things that I loved and indicated of that was our time moved so fast that we would
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be through a session. I'm like, wait, I don't want to stop. I just want to keep going because I was
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loving the experience. But I want to take it a step further than that, because what I was
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learning through bringing those up is how much I had pushed away in my business life
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I had pushed away the things that as a young person gave me great joy and I was rediscovering
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them. And so when I would leave our sessions, I would begin to think about, well, wait, I really
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love doing that. And I would walk toward it. So in walking toward it, what in effect was happening
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is I was I was creating new messages. It doesn't figure that would happen. I was getting new
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messages and I was walking toward those messages. And those were, Ted, there are things that you
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have always wanted to do. That now you are rediscovery. Nice. Let's walk toward them now
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without encumbrance. And I absolutely got out of this program a number of things, but one of them
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was it's OK to look with joy back at the things that you used to dream about doing. Right. I had
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not given myself permission to do that. There's one. Here's the second one. I learned that the
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past activities of my life predetermined some things that could work really well in my future
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Mm hmm. I think I learned from you in the questioning that all of the the back story
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that led to now is key to what is going to be my future, that it isn't as though it stops and
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everything is forgotten. It becomes a a part of the tapestry built for next activity. And I actually
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find that exciting. I said to you in our discussions, I'm concerned that without
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deep purpose and deep drive, I'm not going to find a home. I always feel a little empty
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I'm finding the complete opposite right now. I'm finding the desire back to go into new ventures
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to try new things that were based on joy. At an earlier age, so I think what you've developed
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in this questioning format is a beautiful way to let our own spirit drive this conversation
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I think that's the beauty of this idea. Excellent. Excellent. Well, thank you
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Ted. Very well said. And I do appreciate you so much for being part of the program
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Thank you so much. It is my pleasure
