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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

686: How to Walk Across a Parking Lot by David Cain of Raptitude

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

David Cain of Raptitude shares how to walk across a parking lot. Seriously! Episode 686: How to Walk Across a Parking Lot by David Cain of Raptitude (Mindfulness & Happiness). David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: http://www.raptitude.com/2011/09/how-to-walk-across-a-parking-lot Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily episode 686.

0:03.6

How to Walk Across a Parking Lot by David Cain of Raptitude.com and I'm Justin Malik.

0:08.6

Welcome back or welcome for the first time if you're new here.

0:11.2

This is where I simply narrate blogs for you, sometimes books, always with permission

0:15.6

from the authors.

0:16.6

Otherwise, that would be copyright infringement.

0:18.4

And today's post is a funny title.

0:20.9

It's kinda actually about walking across a parking lot, but it's deeper than that obviously.

0:25.7

It's interesting.

0:26.7

If you post on Mr. Money Mustaches page, he reposted it with David Cain's permission.

0:31.6

He liked it that much.

0:33.1

So I hope you do too.

0:34.6

So with that, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

0:42.2

How to Walk Across a Parking Lot by David Cain of Raptitude.com

0:47.6

He's up on the gas.

0:48.6

That's the first thing.

0:50.3

Drop your speed to just a little slower than necessary because to do this right you can't

0:55.0

be getting ahead of yourself.

0:56.8

And there could be kids around.

0:58.3

Maybe yours even if this is one of those times when you don't know what they're up to.

1:02.0

As always, you're in a china shop, so be gentle.

1:05.1

When you see a vacant spot, your natural tendency might be to thrust your motor carriage in

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