Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode I'm going to share five perspectives,

tips, and a morning prayer that you can take into the new year.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so at the beginning of the new year, which it is right now, beginning of 2023, we're

always inundated with a lot of different perspectives and life hacks and goals and intentions, and

to be honest I'm a sucker for all of it.

I love that stuff.

I love the idea of, even if it's arbitrary, a dedicated time to reset, to look toward

the future, to let go of the past, integrate it all, I've always enjoyed that process.

And with all of that, there can be a lot of nonsense out there and a lot of people

imposing their own ideas of what your year should look like.

I guess you could view this podcast episode as a version of that, but I think as you'll

see, my invitation to you is to build your year from a place of alignment, or at least

these perspective shifts, or design more to get you closer to yourself.

So the first is to adopt the perspective of no wasted time.

Did a podcast episode on this a few days ago, but the essence of it being that we often

chastised that we're younger self for wisdom it didn't have, and why you were the way

you were at the time you were is just beyond our capacity to understand what we can do

instead is recognize that everything that's preceded this moment has been absolutely essential

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