Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I'm Karen Hunter. And if you've been following me, you know that I'm on a 40-day journey. This is going to be my 40-day year.

Every 40 days, I am re-examining, I'm resetting, I'm reading, I'm tweaking, I'm challenging myself.

You can go to a previous podcast, a couple of them, where I've talked about what this year

is going to look like. This is a special year for me.

And my 40-day year is very intentional. One of the things that I'm doing this year is rereading some books and reading some new books. And as I mentioned at the top of the year, the four

agreements is a book that I'm probably going to reread at the top of

every year because it centers. It's a really simple book by Don Miguel Ruiz, and I've talked about

it here as well, but it's a book that is easy to read. It's simple. And it's just a reminder.

So I'm up to the fourth agreement, which is always do your best, the fourth agreement.

So for those of you who are unfamiliar with the book, it's the four agreements.

And it's literally broken into the first agreement, be impeccable with your words, something

that I hold very dear.

I think it's super important.

I think your no should be no and your yes should be yes, which is why we should be

intentional before we open our mouths, even when it's something as simple as agreeing to show up someplace.

The second agreement, don't take anything personally. This is one that I've struggled with that I've worked through because while I may not, you know, outwardly show it or, you know, even process a lot. Some things people do, I'm like, what is this about? But it's really about you, you know, everything that people do, everything that happens to you, you have a choice of how you respond and how you react. It's your decision. And that's your power. Whether you're going to be angry and upset is a choice and so that's

something i'm not going to be bothered on i think collectively we're learning how to be unbothered

in a time such as this and i love it i love how we've all gotten that memo the third agreement

don't make assumptions really powerful somebody who steps on your toe may not have intended to. So don't assume that

they're out to crush your toes. Maybe they just misstepped and didn't see your foot. Don't make

assumptions. And the fourth agreement, this is the one that I'm leaning on because I had a little

bit of a hiccup last, the last 40 days, the last five days of, actually the last 10 days of my last, my first 40

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