Alright, let's be honest, how glad are you for 2020 to be over?

Maybe they've been points during this year?

Maybe even far as back is spring, will you just store, ah, why can't we just be on to 2021

already?

If so, you're definitely not alone.

I'm so glad you're with me today.

I've really been looking forward to this episode. I think it's one of the most important ones

that I'll ever record, especially right now, because I know that it's been a tough year

for so many of us.

But I also know that where they struggle, there's also a chance for learning and growth.

And that's definitely been the case for me.

Even though 2020 has brought challenges, for all of us, right, some of us have lost

some things, it's important to not give into the temptation to just judge the moment.

Or in this case, the year, when we label something as good or bad, we cut ourselves off

from the hidden gifts those experiences might be offering us.

There's an old Taoist parable I share in my book Think Like A Monk about a farmer whose

horse runs away.

How unlucky his brother tells him.

The farmer shrugs.

Good thing, bad thing, who knows, he says.

A week later, the wayward horse finds its way home and with it is a beautiful, wild

mare.

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