Hello welcome back. This is episode 2,998. We're creeping up on the 3,000th episode.

This is the Daily Meditation Podcast and I am your host Mary Meckley guiding you

through insight on this week's theme of living your best life ever and then you are always guided in a meditation.

So in today's episode we continue with this theme on ways you can deal with uncertainty about the future

as you live your best life because as you go about your day and you experience all these different emotions,

despite your best plans for living your best life, you can feel capsized by outside events that happen.

Something on the news, something your coworker or colleagues said to you, something that's going on in your family or with your health

Whatever it may be so in the book we're following along with this week by Morgan Housall.

The title is Same As Ever, timeless lessons on risk, opportunities,

and living the good life. In yesterday's episode, you opportunities and

yesterday's episode you discovered how fate often steps in

despite the best laid plans and that fate can make all the difference in a positive or not

so positive direction.

Well, Morgan Hasell goes on to explain how. When you look

over your plans, risk is what's left over when you've thought of everything. And when you try to

protect against any scenario, it's the thing that's random that you don't think of that goes wrong.

So in yesterday's episode I shared with you the example of how the Brits had General George Washington during the Revolutionary War between the

U.S. and England, they had him cornered and all they had to do is sail a short distance up a river to capture and quarter him and it would have changed the direction of the Revolutionary War.

It's very doubtful the United States would have overcome

losing General Washington who went on to become

the first president of the United States.

And this happened because Wins suddenly descended upon them

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