Dear essentialists, I'm always delighted to share episodes with you conversations that I'm

having with people that are making a difference in the world in one way or another. Today is

a delight, it's Jay Shetty. He's just come out with a book, Think Like A Monk. If you haven't heard

of it yet, you will. Today is a fellow Londoner who's also made his way to LA, so our lives are in

some sort of cosmic alignment. It's been such a pleasure to get to know Jay, first on his podcast,

on purpose, which that episode will also launch today, so you can see the first part there,

and then listen to the second part here. When I was on his podcast, I did this slightly a

reverent thing of turning the tables and asking him questions to identify something that was

essential that he's under investing in, and here we get to see how he's done. Even though the

episodes launch on the same day, they actually happened about a week apart, and we'll see whether

he fulfilled what he committed to do, and you'll get to enjoy that. But all the way through this

episode, the theme is to train your mind for purpose every day. How do we do that? What are the

challenges that take us away from doing that? What are the mental distractions, the digital distractions,

but also the emotional distractions that keep us from focusing on what's important now,

and I welcome you to this conversation with him.

Jay Shetty, it is so wonderful to have you on the show The Monk, who is enlightening the world,

a person who has reached, I don't think he's exaggerating now, billions of people,

on a mission to reach even more, help people not just to be entertained or educated,

but enlightened, help with an amazing new book, think like a monk, and here for this episode,

to help us all to train our minds for purpose. Jay, welcome to The Essentials and Podcast.

Thanks Greg, it's great to be here, I'm glad we're doing it. I'm so looking forward to this

this personalized training that I am hoping to get to be able to my own game in living by purpose,

...