Hey, it's Jeff, and welcome to a new decade of the Commune podcast. Happy New Year to

everyone. Now, this is the time of year when we reflect, take a personal

inventory and make resolutions for the year ahead. So often these resolutions address

deficiencies of our character or our habits based on an imagined future, a future perhaps

with a better job, six-pack abs or a fulfilling

relationship. Well, today, on the pod, I ask you to extend this intention practice outside

of yourself and ask a bigger question, what is your vision for the world you want to live in?

Really take some time and imagine it fully in your head.

What are the attributes of that society?

What are its values?

What are its structures?

And how do we create them?

As we move into the next decade, by any account, a critical one,

I am imagining the world I want to manifest for myself,

my children, and all of society. And it is in that spirit that I share these thoughts on this

week's podcast. Now, it is undebatable that we need a roadmap for the next decade that can

address both our personal health, the epidemics of stress,

anxiety, loneliness, and chronic disease, and our societal well-being, social and economic

polarization, the erosion of public institutions, and the existential threat of global warming.

We need to take a societal inventory and make a communal resolution, not just to ensure our

special survival, but also to manifest a world in which we can thrive, a world that is

inspiring and not exasperating, that is connected and not fractured.

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