Hello, welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I am Mary Meckley and I'm so honored you are

here giving yourself permission to slow down. In today's episode, as always, you're guided in

insight. That's related to the week's theme.

And this week we're exploring the theme

of living your best life.

And we are following along with some insight from a renowned author who wrote the very famous book called

The Psychology of Money,

Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness.

Now, the series is not about that.

I'll have to create a series on that book.

But the book that inspired me recently, create a changes. And again, this is the author, Morgan Houssell.

And I came across this book and an interview with him on the Modern Wisdom Podcast by Chris Wilcox.

And in this podcast interview it is episode 707 of the Modern Wisdom Podcast, he shares some insight.

He talks about how every bit of joy and happiness we get out of life is the gap between your

circumstances. And he goes on to give the example of

John D Rockefeller who was the richest man

who ever lived.

He was worth, and this is adjusted for inflation,

half a trillion dollars in his time. He never had penicillin during his time. He never had Advil. He did not have

the communications like what we have today. If you could trade places with John D Rockefeller, would you do it?

He had status, he had fame, he had his mansions and his servants, but he didn't have penicillin. He didn't have internet communication. He didn't have Advil if he had a headache. So think about

this for a moment and think about how all the new technologies simply become the baseline for what we expect.

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