Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of On Purpose. I'm so glad to be back and

recording these weekly workshops with you because I love love love researching, I love

learning, I love preparing and I love getting to deliver these deep dives into our minds

and human behavior together. Now this is going to be a fascinating episode because we're

talking about something that is so so relevant to each and every single one of us in so many

different ways and I want to dive straight in. How many of you feel anxious? How many of you

feel worried? How many of you feel overwhelmed? That's how a lot of you tell me you're feeling these days

and I get it. There's so much going on in the world. We're meeting challenges we've never seen before

and when it comes to the pandemic what we thought at first would be a few laps around the block

while we endured a brief lockdown has actually turned into an ultra marathon. Over the past few months

I've talked about dealing with anxiety and loneliness and ways to try and prepare yourself to come back

even stronger once we start to find our new normal but there's something missing. There's something I

haven't talked about yet that actually plays a huge role in your ability to deal with setbacks

especially the big ones especially the ones that feel just crushing when they happen

and that's dealing with your ego. Today I'm going to help you uncover the role your ego is playing

in these feelings of anxiety and overwhelm and I'm going to share with you some strategies and ideas

for how to think about your ego in a bit of a healthier way. Plus I'm going to share with you

three ways to make your ego work for you instead of against you. Now I'm sure you're finding it

perplexing too because you're thinking ego J really like how does that fit into anxiety and worry

and so I hope that this approach will be counter intuitive and fresh for you. Now as you know I'm doing

something a bit special right now here on the Friday episode of on purpose where taking one

chapter at a time from my book think like a monk and using a paragraph for a few key phrases

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