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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

749: Put Down Your Phone: Why Presence is the Best Gift You'll Ever Give by Will Aylward with Tiny Buddha

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Will Aylward with Tiny Buddha shares why presence is the best gift you'll ever give. Episode 749: Put Down Your Phone: Why Presence is the Best Gift You'll Ever Give by Will Aylward with Tiny Buddha (Distraction). Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha and Recreate Your Life Story, an online course that helps you let go of the past and live a life you love. Her latest book: Tiny Buddha's Gratitude Journal, which includes 15 coloring pages, is now available for purchase. For daily wisdom, follow Tiny Buddha on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. The original post is located here: https://tinybuddha.com/blog/put-down-phone-presence-best-gift Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is often a living daily episode 749.

0:03.8

Put down your phone.

0:05.3

My presence is the best gift you'll ever give

0:08.4

by WillAeword with tinybuda.com

0:10.8

and I'm just in mall like your very own personal narrator.

0:13.9

And I'll see you today's post as we optimize your life.

0:21.3

Put down your phone.

0:22.5

My presence is the best gift you'll ever give

0:25.3

by WillAeword with tinybuda.com.

0:28.9

Quote, when you love someone, the best thing you can offer

0:32.5

is your presence.

0:34.2

How can you love if you are not there?

0:37.0

Taking out Han.

0:39.0

The only thing worse than not listening to someone

0:41.4

is pretending to listen, giving the vague murmur

0:44.4

of agreement or a quick nod to communicate.

0:46.9

Yes, I'm listening totally when really we're not.

0:50.6

I remember vividly a dinner I had with friends

0:52.6

about four years ago.

0:54.0

I've been backpacking New Zealand for 12 months

0:56.8

and I just returned to the UK.

0:58.8

Traveling in the car to my friend's house,

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