From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford, and this is bootability.

The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.

You ever feel like you just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and the rest of the day is horrible.

The way we start our day can determine everything that follows.

In Buddhism, we often talk about winning in the morning, meaning we start the day with chanting. Doing so, we win over our own negativity and make a determination to create

the most value with our day. Today's guest, Anoa Reed, slept in a lot as a teenager,

and was easily swayed by his environment.

But once he moved out and the reality of adult life hit,

he started to practice Buddhism seriously as a way to win over every challenge in his day.

Today's conversation is all about the patience and determination needed to build the muscle memory of our Buddhist practice.

Welcome Anoa to bootability. We finally made it happen. We had a couple of crazy things in each of our lives and had to reschedule a bunch.

So thank you so much for making time for me on a Wednesday morning in Hawaii.

It's afternoon for me.

To open things up, I always have people just introduce themselves.

So you can just tell me a little bit about who you are and maybe like

kind of how you spend your time, what your daily life looks like. Nice. Well, thank you very much,

Cassidy. Thank you for having me. Good morning. It's morning time here in Hawaii. I grew up on the island of

Oahu and my free time like to enjoy the outdoors, fishing, surfing yeah of course chanidamoku every day you

know so thank you for having me thank you i'm so curious um like what it was like growing up on oahu

like i have only briefly visited Hawaii.

So I don't actually know all that much or especially like what daily life kind of looks like.

So yeah, just tell me a little bit maybe about your life growing up.

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