it's hard to remember good things. For whatever reason, your brain has a negativity bias. There's a lot of

science, but you forget the things that you enjoy and you forget the things that keep you happy and

healthy.

Welcome back. We're in the emotional health series and today I have a special best of episode,

the best of emotional health. And I am so excited to get started. Welcome to boundaries,

balance, and breakthroughs. We're diving into some of the most meaningful conversations that

we've had on emotional health, the sweet spot where mental and spiritual well-being meet.

You're going to hear insights about balance and boundaries and living with intention from

none other than John Acuff, Lisa Turkers, Shauna Nequist, Tara Mattson, and Emily P. Freeman.

This is a great one. It's packed with my favorite highlights, my favorite moments and great

insights that it's really important for us to take a minute, go back, hear it again, because we need

repetition. We need to hear these truths repeatedly until they get down in our bones.

And now, without further ado, let's get started with our good friend,

John Acuff. For you, how do you balance your inputs and your outputs? Are you spending a lot of

time reading books? Are you, do you listen to podcasts? What inspires you? What does that look like?

Yeah, I'm a huge, huge input guy. I read 100 books last

year. I'll read 100 books this year. I might drop it down to 52 next year to kind of just mix it up,

but I'll listen to a lot of audiobooks. So for me, I am a very negative person by nature,

so I have to work very hard to be positive and

productive. So I start pretty low in the morning. It's like the joke I sometimes do is like,

it's like I forget everything overnight. Like every night I sleep, I wake up and it's like,

oh, I'm back to negative. Like yesterday we ended positive. So I have to kind of get back up. So I'll read,

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