Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at

Rachelcable.com.

Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress

and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 249 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, I'll be talking about a simple mindset shift that involves changing rules

into preferences. This little shift was actually something I learned from my psychologist a few months ago

and it's been really powerful for me.

So I'm looking forward to sharing more about that with you.

But first, I thought I'd let you know a little bit about what I've been up to lately

because it's been a few big weeks in my little world.

I finally got to launch my online course, Mindfulness Made Easy, after working on it for more than a

year and we welcomed over 80 amazing students into the course. Enrollment has now closed until

next year and I'm focusing on supporting my students as

they make their way through five weeks of building a consistent mindfulness practice. It's so

exciting and I'm really grateful to be sharing mindfulness in such a fun and meaningful way.

Of course, I'll still be sharing a new episode of this podcast each week too.

I've actually had some great questions from my students, which I'm planning to turn into new

podcast episodes over the coming weeks. For example, two of my students mentioned that they've

been feeling anxious about making decisions. So I thought that's a brilliant topic

for a podcast episode because it's something that so many of us deal with at some point in our

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