I'm at the airport yesterday and I walk by those like diabolical places where they make

salty pretzels fresh.

And then my blind reaction to it used to be like go eat 750 calories worth of it or like

a get a bouquet of cinnamon sticks and shove that down and then hate myself for two days.

This man who used to be controlled by a whiff of a cinnabon is ABC News anchor Dan Harris.

I had a little bit of a buffer where like oh okay that's just a passing impulse I can

let that pass.

Today building a buffer to keep us from knee jerk freaking out about everything going

on around us.

Because note to self we can't slow down this crazy accelerating world but we can slow

down how we react to it.

I'm Manouche Samarote and here on the podcast last week we wrapped up the year 2017 by

talking to Google's former Zen master the lovely and soothing chaid mang tan.

I suddenly knew what I want to do for the rest of my life which was to create a condition

for world peace in my lifetime.

This week we're kicking off 2018 with a follow up to that conversation because sure you

would like world peace but maybe your goals for 2018 are a little less lofty.

You just want to stay fit and healthy or lose weight or live life to the fullest.

I didn't make those up those are the top three New Year's resolutions people make according

to Nielsen.

And I'm guessing many of us just want to try and make 2018 a little less intense.

How do we do this?

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