Friends,
Since the day Life’s Golden Ticket was released, I’ve been asked to reveal what the secret message was on the golden ticket at the end of the story.
I was always reluctant to share my vision of what the golden ticket said because I wanted the reader to draw his or her own conclusion. I wanted the secret to a happy and meaningful life to be chosen by the reader, by you, not me.
Originally, the publisher and I were going to put the golden ticket in an envelope in the back of the book, along with an invitation ticket that you could give to a friend inviting them to read the book. But we chose not to include the envelope at the time, so until now the “golden ticket” has remained a *mystery*.
The time has come to finally share what I envisioned the ticket to say. I’m hoping you’ll comment on the golden ticket and also provide what YOU think is the golden ticket. (See below on how to comment).
The Golden Ticket Revealed!!
What is the secret message we were all given on our golden ticket at birth? What message did I want to include with Life’s Golden Ticket? Revealed here for the first time, below is the front-and-back of the golden ticket we were originally going to include in an envelope in the back of Life’s Golden Ticket. Print this ticket out and carry it with you as a reminder of our greatest blessing – the gift of free will and second chances.
Print the golden ticket front and back of the ticket by clicking on the following links:
Golden Ticket Front
Golden Ticket Back
Please post a comment on this blog and let me know what you think of the golden ticket. Just scroll down to leave a comment.
Also, feel free to post a comment and share what YOU think is the golden ticket. This should be your thoughts on what we all need to hear as a reminder to get us to live to our full potential. It’s your reminder to others about what to keep in mind in order to live a happy and meaningful life. Try to keep it to 2-5 sentences max. I’m sure people will like to see and comment on it.
As a thanks, I’ve also included two incredible videos below to inspire you and help you get centered despite this chaotic world of ours. Enjoy!
Thank you for your support over the years. I hope you always remember your golden ticket. And I hope our paths cross soon. Until then, may the gates to possibility always swing wide open for you.
– Brendon Burchard
Author, Life’s Golden Ticket
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Life’s Last 3 Questions
This video shares what inspired me to write Life’s Golden Ticket. Essentially, I had an accident that taught me life’s last questions and I wanted to write a parable about a man who is forced to look at his life and decide if he had ever really lived, loved, and mattered. That’s the essence of the book. It’s also the essence of what I know to be important in life based on my accident.
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The Purpose of Life
After a participant suffered a seizure during one of my seminars, I shared my thoughts on life. While conducting the seminar, my father was fighting a losing battle against leukemia. I thought this video would help you become present and emotionally connected so that you can truly appreciate the golden ticket (and hopefully help you come up with your own, too).
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Life’s Golden Ticket was another powerful reminder that we are here to live fully present in who we are, not to be swayed by judgement or criticism, but to follow our heart and the guidance we receive if we listen for it.
It was also a reminder that we all have our own way, our own path, that we should not judge others because we do not know their past, we have not lived their life. I believe we all do the best that we know how in the moment! Let go of any hurt, anger, frustration and take responsibility for your own life! You control your life – not someone else!
To feel love and joy is to know that we are living our life fully and following our destiny. We all have a gift and a contribution to this world, not to be measured by each other. There is no limit in our abilities, fear is our only limit, which we have learned our entire lives. Let fear go and start believing in this world and yourself! LISTEN to those that have lived before you, have experienced what you are experiencing, and can teach you through their own lessons as their life in this world comes to a close.
No more excuses – no more blaming someone else – no more feeling sorry for yourself! Time to start living YOUR life – you are in control – time to find gratitude and give back through living a fully present joyful life! That example is the best gift you could give anyone!!!!
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I printed out the ticket – front and back – laminated it and gave it to a high school exchange student from Bangladesh. I work with a non-profit organization that helps these kids have a great host family experience, great school and community. This particular boy had a birthday today and has been experiencing severe depression for the past two weeks. He was a twin and his brother died at birth so he has struggled with survivor’s guilt all of his life.
I put the ticket in his birthday card and then I had a beautiful box with lovely ribbons on it setting on the table in the restaurant. As he opened the card, I asked him to read your Golden Ticket out loud. He did and as he finished he had tears in his eyes. Then I told him I wasted 28 years of my life angry at my father for his alcoholism and bad behavior. Then one day I had a crises and needed God desperately. As He forgave me, I was able to forgive both my earthy father and heavenly Father for the past. I finally found both peace and purpose.
I asked this boy to look at the beautifully wrapped present on the table and think of it for a moment as the gift of life God gives us. He wouldn’t dream of not opening the gift I gave him for his birthday – why let depression or guilt rob him of opening the much BIGGER GIFT – his gift of life.
I got the biggest smile and the biggest hug – - not because my gift was so good but because you gave me the tools to help him “get it”.
Thank you Brendon!
Blessings,
Deb Bowen -
Muchas veces nos hace falta tener un “Henry” cerca para que nos ayude a ver que está en nuestras manos cambiar y hacer q nuestra vida sea maravillosa. Por eso, le estoy muy agradecida al autor de este libro ya que para mi ha sido como mi “Henry” particular y me ha ayudado a darme cuenta de que mirar al pasado no siempre beneficia. También tengo la sensación de que el protagonista, al final del libro, vive un reencuentro con su pasado, pero de una manera muy distinta a como lo vive dentro del parque. Y eso es algo muy importante a tener en cuenta en nuestro día a día. Los padres no son perfectos y cometen errores como cualquier ser humano. Nos hacen mucho daño con sus actos y éstos nos condicionan por el resto de nuestras vidas. Es difícil, pero hay que saber enfrentarse a ello y dar una segunda oportunidad, porque ellos, por muchas cosas malas que hayan hecho, también la merecen… Asi que desde aquí invito a aquellas personas que puedan estar en una situación parecida a que les regalen un ticket dorado a sus padres distantes o desaparecidos y le den la oportunidad que todo el mundo merecemos… SOLO SE VIVE UNA VEZ, PERO A LO LARGO DE LA VIDA, NUNCA ES TARDE PARA LEVANTARSE, CURARSE LAS HERIDAS Y TENER OTRA OPORTUNIDAD DE VIVIR PLENAMENTE.
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Brendon – LOVE Life’s Golden Ticket and your information on sponsorships!
Great job – keep it up – let’s partner sometime soon through AspireNow and LifesGoldenTicket.com – we ought to be connected!
~Scott Andrews, Founder of AspireNow
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Thank you, your book has made me draw some conclusions in a moment where I felt a bit lost and was not sure as to what to do…
The golden ticket is a reminder that my life is mine and that no one can tell me what to do or what to think.
Today I choose to help others, without expecting anything in return.
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Dear Brendon,
life´s golden ticket to me is made of two components that cannot exist without each other:
#1) The discovery who I truly am and who we all truly are – at the deepest level of our being. I call it LIFE, this eternal and never ending process of being and becoming. Evolution is its nature. The whole universe has evolved from no-thing, just as you and I do with every breath we take, on and on and on …
#2) The discovery that my joy in life and my felt security in life has shifted enormously through discovery #1. I always feel safe and secure, whatever happens to me. Because I know that from this deepest perspective of who I AM I can even stand the hardest pain and worst cruelty that I can think of. The reason is because I am not only Holger, this individual I, but I also always have another identity, which is just as true as the first one: It is my transpersonal (!) identity – I AM LIFE. I AM the creator.
That to me is life’s golden ticket. It means that I had the privilege to awaken to this deepest understanding of who I am, who we all are, we are life and we are one – beneath all our different beliefs, cultures, races, sexes and behaviours.
Love , Holger
NB: Have seen you at Experts Academy in 2009. Want to contribute massively to my German people and become a famous event leader and author myself. Check me out on http://www.holgereckstein.de (videos!!
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Brendon, your golden ticket sums it all up, and I wish everyone would realise that life really is what you make it. No-one but oneself is responsible… We are thrown many challenges in our life and it is up to us to make the noble choice. When we don’t then we get knocked down, and it is up to us to get up and try again. Eventually, adopting a positive attitude in the light of all challenges, we realise that our attitude determines the outcome.
Norman D Austin
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You know, I was just talking to a friend today about small things in life, that somehow seem unfair and unperdictable and the fact of life is YOU have to get up in the morning, you have to continue on your path. I have personally been through hell and needless to say I have learned through my hell, I had to question myself daily what my reason was for continuing on my path.
Today, I have personal aches and pains and still committed to a playdate today with four children. I am sore, but I still push myself to not let anyone down.
Is it easy? NO and somedays I feel as if I want to lay around all day and not do my housework, but then something tells me that I still have limbs and I still have a mind and I have to get off my butt and continue to live and love. I love to have fun with my daughters friends, I love to paint and I love to do crafts( I don’t get paid when kids are dropped off at my home) for a short time so the parent can go do some things that they need to do. I do it because I love to see my daughter light up when she knows a friend will be coming over. You have to find what makes you happy and what makes you continue on with your day.
Looking back, if this will help you… my father was very ill when I was little, I knew this and I also had to accept it. He could never play with me like other children had in their lives, I didn’t have a father who was healthy, and young. I didn’t have a mother who was young… I had to go find out who I was on my own( this is why I don’t feel sorry for spolied people). Sorry if this offends in any way, but it’s true. You have to look deep within to find your own path and what you love.
If someone truly hates the job they choose then get out, start all over. Find your way. I came from working in a factory job, then made a huge move out of the country to change who I was. If I had not done that, I would never have been able to adopt, and find my partner in life.
When someone will complain about the job, the wife the husband… I have to say… what are you going to do to make it work? HOW are you going to ever be happy when you don’t know what you want in your life. I know because I have questioned everything in my life, and had to pick myself up and keep going, no matter how bad things got. Life about feeling happy and to find your happy you have to consult yourself and then act upon it.
I believe God gets me through everyday and wake up calls are all around us. I have been “shy” in someways all my life because I was afraid to let my voice be heard, but now… I know my purpose.
Thank you and I hope I can help someone reading this.
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What a great question! I, too, believe that creating your natural mission (s) in life provides your inherent direction to live of life authentic of purpose on purpose.
Your purpose being that you create and empowering role (s) derived and created from your core values, “that which truly matters, is truly meaningful and important to you.” When these three elements are CLEAR to you, you begin to live a life of passion because out of CLARITY OF VALUES, CLARITY OF VISIONS AND CLARITY OF EMPOWERING ROLES falls a NATURAL MISSION (s)~and inherent direction and authentic purpose.
That, which you, with the synergistic leverage of other like minded people, create to provide true service to mankind based on it’s their needs and the world based on it’s needs. Thus you contribute the highest value in an truly authentic manner, coming from that “essence” which is uniquely you.
CLARITY, gratitude for, respect and reverence of this “gift” called life is key, and a true beginning or starting point for any success. Existing and living or two entirely different things. Living a life of prediction and living a life of creation are also clearly two different things.
CLARITY OF VALUES, leads to CLARITY OF VISION which leads to CLARITY OF ROLES which leads to CLARITY OF MISSION which gives you INHERENT DIRECTION and AUTHENTIC CLARITY OF PURPOSE~a life time of living your created missions~values, visions and roles~ to the mutual benefit of all.
To understand if you mattered, you need to understand what truly matters and go do that, in alignment with you values, visions and roles and natural missions. Then you “That wonderful creation and unique essence of a precious human being will matter. Your highly valuable contributions and helpful and meaningful services will make a highly significant positive and constructive impact on the lives of others whether on a micro or macro level. Whatever suits you. Yes, then you will matter. And, if you were born and/or have ever been loved, as from the very beginning of time by God, our parents, your caregivers, family members, friends, siblings, …then you obviously mattered even if you didn’t know it yet.
Did you live, YES, if it was clearly and authentically on purpose, contributing your absolute best, stretching beyond all your boundaries and limiting beliefs thus realizing your full potential, contributing in every great way! Yes, it will be and is very clear that you lived. I pray that you will share this earth with us for many many wonderful years of your and our lives. I am certain that your spirit and legacy will live on into eternity.
Did you love? Yes, if one of your core values was/is creating high quality, long lasting, mutually beneficial, respectful and loving “relationships” of any nature: God, family, wife, father, husband, mom, sister, brother, friends, customers, associates, the environment, creativity, the universe, yourself and of course if and when you were were present creating, building and nurturing these relationships! Then for sure you loved and continue to do so. That is our blessing!
It is sad but sometimes true, that we need a few wake up calls to truly appreciate and be genuinely grateful for this beautiful gift called life, which is in and of itself pure love. To communicate and share your unique essence and light with the rest of the world in every great and meaningful way to the benefit of all~ is to have lived, loved and mattered.
YOU Brendon Burchard, are very much present and loved. Your light, love, essence and warmth, simply exude across the universe touching all who have ever met you, deeply in their hearts, soul and spirits. You share the love, you share the light, you truly do matter to us and all your loved ones and you are truly living a life of passion and a life of your dreams!
Surviving a near fatal situation, you woke up, you began a life of gratitude and reverence for this gift called life, and you took control ~via responsibility and accountability of all precious moments granted and all future results you were going to and are blessed to achieve.
So not only were you blessed Brendon but so were and are we, your family and all your loved ones. That is because now, with full reverence and gratitude, you recognize that ever precious nano second of life matters, love matters, relationships matter, contributions matter, making a highly significance difference in the lives of others matters, and that YOU, a most precious and unique living creation can fill every second of your life here on earth with highly valued and highly valuable learning, growth and contribution. YOU ARE LOVED!
You definitely are very much a live and are living, you exude love to all and you are loved and deeply cherished, YES Brendon, YOU TRULY MATTER!
Thank you for waking up! Thank you for all your amazing contributions and the endless energy and expertise that you share in such a loving, caring, respectful and professional manner.
God love you Brendon, we all truly care and we are very grateful to you and also to your mom and dad for their part in creating and raising you.
Keep up the fabulous work. YOu are an inspiration to all.
Warmest regards, huge hugs, lots of love and an abundance of joy and laughter too. Continued success beyond all expectations and God bless you and all your loved ones past and present! What can I say. YOU are THE BEST of the BEST!!!!!!!!!!
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Lifes golden ticket is very simply three things. Something to look forward to.Something to do. Someone to love
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La verdad es que es algo raro, pero necesitaba leer este libro… había algo dentro de mí que decía “comprálo, es la oportunidad, no la dejes pasar, es ahora o nunca”. Sólo tengo 16 años, cuando compré el libro tenía 15 pero no lo podía leerlo porque debía leer los libros para la escuela.
Sinceramente, me ayudó mucho, demasiado, a mi corta edad creía estar acabada… que mi vida ya no tenía sentido. Pero con esta historia aprendí que todo se puede y que la única barrera que me impredía ser quién quería ser y hacer lo que quería hacer, era yo misma.
En verdad te agradezco por hacer que me diera cuenta que se puede cambiar y vivir como uno quiere, porque algo dentro de mí sabía que mi vida no era esta… que había nacido para otra cosa, gracias por ayudarme a encontar la respuesta. -
I believe my work is to help adults know how to help children keep hold of and awareness of their Golden Tickets. My 39 years of experience has led me to believe that we are made to be able to keep hold of and work with our Golden Tickets (this phrase is, of course, thanks to you). I have discovered the root cause to losing touch and awareness of our Golden Ticket, and I have discovered and designed a way to heal the damage caused by this root cause. This is my work.
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My Golden Ticket, at least what I know right now, is to remain in constant contact with the core, the eternal chord, the source, the divine center of my being.
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Dear Brendon, We all start our lives conditioned by other humans -what to believe , what to wear , what to eat etc. When we realize that we can change the course of our lives we know that we have found, and are using The Golden Ticket! Thank you for putting this message into an easy to grasp idea.. ..What fun to send this out to many others who have not yet realized they hold The Golden Ticket and if they CHOOSE can go on the ride of their life!
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Happy New year 2010! May this and many years into the future be the absolute best of the best of TEH BEST! God bless you and yours! I look forward to sharing more fabulous times and precious moments with you and yours!
Please extend my heartfelt thanks also to Jason and Jen, and the many others who make sharing your great essence possible. Blessings and love to your lovely wife and family too.
Nothing but the best for the BEST! What can I say!
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I am truly blessed because despite experiencing much tragedy, terrorism, embezzlement and assault of many natures, I can still cheer many people up through my gift of music, love, laughter, understanding, forgiveness and compassion. I can influence positive outcomes and I can effect positive change. I can get people to see the best in themselves, I can bring out the best in others. I can inspire people to value themselves and I can guide people to live a life of true value.
Though I hobbled all the way to the Expert’s Seminar in San Francisco I was blessed to meet you Brendon and the many fabulous participants of the conference including one of my kindred spirits, Tony Robbins, the wonderful Mike Koenigs, the endearing John Gray and your fabulous publisher who I would like on my side any day as my very own personal dragon slayer
The precious gift that I got, among many many others, was to be present in your exhilarating presence. Your fabulous energy, extraordinary goodwill, outstanding professionalism and heart felt and genuine humanity touched me deeply, inspired me greatly, and gave me much hope; not just for myself, but for future generations who will be blessed to be influenced by you.
Well, there is much great work to be done as I too, received the world series of Golden Tickets. Nine lives doesn’t even come close to the blessings that I have received. I am grateful to be alive, to be blessed with my daughter’s presence and the gift of many dear friends and associates, not the least of which is you.
You are very much alive, Brendon. You are the epitome of love and you truly do matter and make a highly positive and deeply meaningful difference in the lives of others, myself included. You have and continue to give your utmost and contribute in every great way. If my Golden Ticket were only to be able to say that I lived to experience you, your fabulous event, the learning, the camaraderie, then I could have said, I lived, loved and mattered.
Brendon, you are truly a blessing to all of us. Thank you for being YOU!
Sincerely, appreciatively, and eternally grateful,
Gabriele L. Grach~ EAPC~Live, love and laugh lots!
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Hey Brendon!
Here is one of my favorite words of wisdom:
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” Victor FranklI have some others but they are written i swedish!
Thank you for your newsletters!
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The strong man. As soon as he knew that he could be ‘as strong as he wanted’, people around him tried to stop him, tried to keep him ‘in his place’. Out of care, or out of jealousy. That’s wat ‘awoke’ me. It’s not that I am doing wrong, it’s ‘the other’ who cannot or wil not understand my ‘drive’ to change. Next time I want to ‘grow’, next time I want to go forward I’ll thank them for caring and will continue my ‘road’ in ‘my way’. Thank you for ‘the golden ticket’.
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I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed reading a book as much as Life’s Golden Ticket. Your storying telling is magnificant, but second only to the concept that it so well conceived. I am truly hopeful the majority of the world will read you book and find the enlightenment with which I’m sure it’s intended.
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Brendon, for the first time in my life, I was laid off at the end of 2008. I realized what a golden opportunity this is to do what I’ve been preparing myself for since the 1980s: to write my book about personal security and situational awareness, a method anyone can use to save their own life and thereby experience their own Golden Ticket for the full ride. The book will be available early next year. Life is a journey. The Golden Ticket enables us to enjoy the good things, give something back in return, and enjoy the company of others along the way.
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The universe has been here for billions of years.
We are here for a split second. We now have found our Golden TIcket…..Make it count!!!
Live, Love, and Matter to oneself and to others everyday, in every way that we can…..Thanks Berndon!!!!
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i am here to be salt and light to every life that i touch. some people i will only be connected with for a brief moment. what can i give them in that moment? what will be better for them because i came their way?
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I believe that everything you mention in your Golden Ticket is soo… very true. I remembered recently what I had forgotten for a while -who I really am and why I am living on this earth. THANK YOU and people like you who keep reminding me of this truth.
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First i would like to applaud as well as encourage your efforts even further. Your inspiration helps finding that golden ticket that much easier.
I believe the golden ticket to life is giving. Giving to your friends and your family, because when you give and you see the smiles on the faces you have grown to love life becomes satisfying.
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I´ have cried, there am laugh. I was reflected in your book as in a mirror my eyes did not reflect future, until I finished reading GoldenTicket thanks, infinite to occur a reality, to occur a miracle. From Buenos Aires, Argentina. God bless you.-
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Life’s golden ticket for me is to ideally live life discovering, doing and growing continually into more and more of who I was born to be. Like an acorn, always on purpose and always reaching up (with everyone and everything around me), I want to acknowledge the perfection of everything at any given second. I don’t know the who, what , where, why, when or how’s most of the time so I’m very blessed to have had the abilities to carry out and reach many of the goals I’ve set for myself. Many things that seemed impossible at first but something kept me going. Faith is totally involved at any given moment for me with the one source being God’s Love. We are all connected I believe in this love.
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The Golden Ticket for me is to live everyday as if it is the last. The most important person is the one in front of me at any given moment. Loving each and every one who comes into contact with me and making time for myself, my family and friends. Being a teacher AND a student. Spending time in nature, prayer and gratitude. I was born to serve and being humble and living in integrity enables me to choose to surrender to God that I may be an instrument of Gods Good. Essentially, My Golden Ticket is FAITH and knowing I am never alone, that God is Good and wants to Give me the Kingdom. All I have to do is Ask, Trust and Show up!
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Life Golden Ticket for me is the opportunity to live to the fullest every day of our lives. To wake up every morning and see the sun, walk, speak, hear and specially being happy for all we have. To make someone laugh.Life Golden Ticket is the opportunity to be grateful just to be alive so like that we’ll be able do the best we can every minute, every second in order to make a positive change for ourselves and for others.
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The golden ticket is about knowing that you did your very best.
That you dared to do what you dreamed was possible.
Realizing that you have achieved what mattered most to you.
That you have achieved the outcomes that you have engineered.
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Thanks for the positive message and always leveling up, in spite of personal events. What do I think about Life’s Golden Ticket? We get tools (like coaching) put them in our toolbox and use them to build a foundation for achieving all that God has for us. The only thing holding us back…the most profound force keeping us from reaching our peak…the challenging obstacle to achieving ALL that life has to offer is…the limitation of our own mind set and how we view ourselves. Thanks again, Life is a Golden Ticket.
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Hi Brendon,
To me, Life’s Golden Ticket is to find what si our mission during this life and to follow it.
Thank you for your contribution to people’s life.
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