Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwan and I'm your host for

the Watts Essential Podcast. I'm also the author of Essentialism, the discipline

pursuit of less and my goal is to decode exactly how to design a life that

really matters because if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.

If you're new to the show take a deep breath. Almost everything is trivial. Only a

few things are essential and that's what this show is all about. My job is to

interview, get deep really with authors, entrepreneurs, psychologists and

everyday people to help explore Watts Essential through a process of listening,

unpacking and going deep with each guest we turn each episode into practical

advice for intentionally planning and living in order to move forward. If you

don't do anything else just ask Watts Essential and eliminate as much as

possible everything else.

Sherry how are you? Oh I am so good Greg. I'm excited to be here speaking with you.

Do you feel so good that that's delightful to hear that? Well listen I wake up in

the morning and decide I have a choice and my day generally goes better when I

consciously say it's a good day and I feel good. Did you do that this morning or

did you do it just as I literally asked the question? You know I do my big

appreciation like oh I'm still here. Yay! When my eyes open. Do you do it out loud?

I do it out loud. I do it out loud. Really just like you just did it just like just

yeah I'm still here. You know I continue to find that my tone and my vocabulary

literally shaped my life. So and I can do quite the opposite like you know so

I try to be conscious of how I am shaping it not perfectly but I just I try

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