Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Friday morning.

It's hard to believe we are almost at the end of the year.

I'm going to be taking a couple of weeks off and we're going to be running some best of

Radio Headspace over the next couple of weeks but before I do duck away, I wanted to just

sort of round out the year with you.

I'm sure the year will have been different for each and every one of you but I can't

remember a year where everybody so desperately wanted the year to end.

There is a sense I think, a collective sense that it has been one of the more challenging

years in memory and that all of us hope that there is going to be something more positive.

The other side of new year and I think that's a really healthy way of looking at life

at the same time.

I feel like we shouldn't be too quick to run away from the year gone by because as painful

as the year has been as difficult as it has been for many people.

I feel for each and every one of us there will be a lot of really valuable things to take

away as well.

I think it's been a year where many of us have reflected on what's most important to

us in our life.

How are we going to spend our time?

How are we going to find a sense of purpose, a sense of fulfillment?

Who do we want to spend that time with?

Where do we want to be spending that time fulfilling that purpose?

And I know a lot of people who've made actually really major changes.

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