Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping

you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 652. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset, Who this, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about how to be genuinely happy in life. I want to talk about that idea through the lens of being present in your life. And I know on the surface the topic of how to be present, it's not the most most sexy of topic but i think we have the ability to be more present in our lives today to actually enjoy what we have today and

who we are today and to find power and genuine joy in that such that we don't look back and realize

oh shit i didn't live when I was young. Truly, like,

I'm 36 and I feel like most people in their mid 30s or approaching their 40s or 40 and beyond,

the potential regret that we all share is the same. I wish I enjoyed X, Y, Z more, I wish I

enjoyed my 20s more, I wish I enjoyed my single years more,

my first years working more, my freedom and youth more, the freedom I had more, my young body

more, whatever it is, right? I think we could all relate to this in some regard. So I want to do an

episode talking about how to enjoy life when we

have it, when we're young as we have the things we have today. And the big takeaway for this

episode will be borrowed from Emily Dickinson who said in one of her poems, she said,

Forever is composed of Now's. Forever is composed of Now's. If that's not tattoo-worthy, I don't know what

is. I love it. I love a good short quote, forever is composed of nows. So let's talk about this.

Because I think, frankly, we've all been sold a bit of a lie about what it means to be present,

or rather a bit of a lie when it comes to why we're not present,

right? Like most people, the internet, the gurus, our parents, they say, well, it's, you know,

it's our phones, it's our schedules, it's our go, go, go lifestyle, it's social media,

it's our obsession with being productive that keeps us from being present in the moment. But I think that's

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