Hi friends, I'm Emily Lay and you're listening to the Simplified Podcast.

If you're looking for a quiet place where you can filter out the noise and the hustle,

this is it.

Every week I invite you to slow down and join me to explore practical ways to organize

and automate the complicated parts of life so you can focus on what truly matters most.

Are you looking for some peace and calm in your day? Do you need a friend to help you slow

down and think about what your heart and soul really need? That's what I hope to give you in

my brand new book called Sure as the Sunrise. I wrote 100 meditations to help you start your day

with a bit more joy and delight and to remember that no matter what the day brings, you don't have

to face it alone. I can't wait to share this book with you when it hits shelves in a few weeks,

so go ahead and pre-order your copy from your favorite book retailer today.

All right, let's face it. Sometimes we're just over it. We're over having to get up early. We're

over having to take our kids to school. We are over having deadline after deadline or standing on

our feet and helping clients all day. We're over the same squabbles about money we keep having

with our partner. We're over our kid playing with that stupid loud toy that the mother-in-law gave

them for their birthday. We're over having to change the style of our jeans again and we're over

having to put dinner on the table every single night. It just happens and sometimes you don't know

why. Maybe someone cut you off in traffic and the day never seemed to get back on track. Maybe

you woke up that way. Maybe you got home from work and took extra time to make a new recipe you saw

on Instagram last week and maybe I had a few more veggies than your people are used to,

but you added a Chipotle lime cream sauce that you thought would score some brownie points because

who doesn't love a sauce? It scored you zero brownie points. No one finished it. No one said

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