Hi, I'm Bruce Lankford. I host Mindfulness Mode Podcast. I'm a Mindfulness Coach and I just love helping people reach new heights of calm, focus, and happiness.

So right now I'm working on my podcast so excited because I'm leading up to episode 100 and it's been almost well around nine months since I started the podcast and I had no idea how exciting it would be to have a

podcast but it does take a lot of time and a lot of work and so I find myself

having to just learn how to streamline my time a little bit more but I really enjoy

interviewing guests and I also enjoy my weekend episodes where I'm just sharing my own ideas

and thoughts about mindfulness.

But when I look back I think I've learned so much from my guests.

It's been a real education for me and I certainly know it has for my listeners as well because this is an area

that I think we can all benefit from how mindfulness, meditation, all of these kinds of tools related to mindfulness can help you in your life

to be happier or to be more successful whatever it is you're doing.

I noticed a lot of people that really seemed focused and really seemed

to have met success. They seem to be happy and focused. A lot of times they said that they practiced

meditation or some form of mindfulness

and

it really got me thinking because it always seemed to be just a mention

you know that's just a small part of what they would

mention and then they would talk about their lives and things that had happened.

And I started thinking, you know, that's a part of who we are that I think we need to talk about more and explore more and find out, you know, how we could learn to do those things in our life to help us become

more focused because I certainly know thinking back a few years ago I didn't know why my mind kind of went all over the place and why I sometimes felt super scattered.

I didn't really understand that and then I started meditating, then I started understanding what mindfulness meant and it helped me so much.

It helped me to be calm.

It helped me to just accept the world the way it is and not be always trying to change things, always trying

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