Designing a Great Life: Character, Impact, and Spiritual Connection

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay. So, what we're doing is >> we're mastering life. We're mastering life. We're designing and creating a great life for ourselves. A life needs to be designed and created. It can't be hoped for. It can't be it's not lack. Your life is as good as you make it. It's up to you to make it good. And we said in order to make it good, you have to understand the basic foundations of how you make your life good. We said the basic first structure good. We said the basic first structure of life is what's the goal? What do I need to do to achieve it? Do those things. Very simple. My goal is to become the greatest person I could become. What does that mean? It means character traits and impact and spirituality. The three things. The three things. improve my character traits, improve the world and be spiritually connected. What does it take in order to achieve those things and invest in doing those things? So there is no valid [cough] reason So there is no valid [cough] reason [clears throat] you shouldn't be a great person. >> Can you think of a valid reason why you should you couldn't shouldn't be a great person? We see people coming out of tunnels in Gaza completely transformed much greater people than they were before they went in. So never ever blame your circumstances. Never blame your circumstances. You get to choose how you respond in any situation. Have you all read Man's

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