Hey my friends welcome back to the morning mindset as we get this new year off to a new start I wanted to let you know

something that you probably don't know about the morning mindset and that is that

you can set up your Alexa smart speaker to play the morning mindset for you every day.

The way you would do that is to log into your Amazon account at amazon.com

and next to the search bar there's a little gray drop down arrow. Use that to choose

Alexa Skills. And then in the search box type in Morning Mindset and hit the

search. The Morning Mindset that you're listening to right

now should be the very first selection that shows up. Click on the title and then on the

right-hand side click Enable Skill. Once you do that you can just go to your Alexa speaker and say Alexa play my flash

briefing that's a funny name they've given these things but that's what they call

them is flash briefings and the

morning mindset will begin to play. So every morning when you speak that

command it will play the most recent episode of the morning mindset just

another way you can make the morning mindset an easy part of your day using your smart speaker. Well, getting back to our topic I mentioned yesterday that I was going to talk to you today about the most damaging and

debilitating problem all of us have. It's the biggest problem that we have in life.

And I actually let the cat out of the bag yesterday by saying that it is independence because that's

really what it is. That's our most debilitating problem. You see we are raised

especially in the Western world to think of ourselves as rugged individuals, as people

who are in control of our own destiny.

And while we would love for that to be true, and it does some kind of a work inside of us to make us feel better about ourselves

to think that is true. The reality is it's not true. We cannot be independent of God.

We try and we work really hard to be that way

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