Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio. Episode number 290, Christmas is upon us.

Well, that would be pretty irrelevant statement if you're listening to this show in like February 2018 but either way

we're recording it in the present in December and it's nearly Christmas and I'm very

excited because I think Christmas gives you a great time to reflect and think about things and I think for me it's

the one time of the year where like the world turns off like people ignore their

phones its friends its family you literally don't have to work you don't have to do anything I think it's family, family, you literally don't have to work, you don't have to do anything.

I think it's one of those genuinely, mentally freeing periods of time and I think maybe that

makes you think if you really enjoy that, which I do, how do you create more of that in your life?

Like, do we have enough balance away from technology and all the stuff that requires our time?

Don't get me wrong.

We want to be engaged.

We want to enjoy things, but there needs to be time

where we say, right, no, I'm away from my phone

for an hour, that kind of stuff.

To actually get that form of mental rest I think that's really important but I'm

looking forward to Christmas I know Tom's looking forward to Christmas yeah I'm really

looking forward to Christmas I don't know how much of that sort of anti-technology

things just because you've just broken your laptop

and you're really annoyed at technology at the minute but yeah I'm really

looking forward to Christmas I think it's as you see it's nice to have that almost like week to two weeks

depending on how your holidays fall gap where you are just able to do what you want to do.

You can relax, you can spend some time reading you can spend time

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