Mindfulness mode.

And if you fall off it, your willpower is going to fall.

Just fill it back up later and get back on the train.

Hey, Mindful Tribe, thanks for joining me today.

It's great to have you with me.

It's just awesome to sit down here in my studio and just feel like you are right here

and the two of us are just sharing a conversation.

Well, you know what? I'm talking about decisions today, eating, exercising, and deciding to flourish.

Because a lot of this is about decisions. In fact, we make hundreds of decisions every day and many of those decisions

can help us live a more or less mindful life. And I'm sure you make a lot of positive decisions

that help you to definitely live a more mindful life. You would know how you feel about that.

But, you know, we can make decisions as to

whether to meditate, decide to do yoga, decide what foods to eat. We decide to exercise. We decide to

create whatever creating means to you. And for all of those activities I mentioned, of course,

we can also decide not to do them, not to exercise, not to meditate. And certainly eating

and exercising are central as to how much mindfulness we are experiencing in life. But so many of those other things are too.

My friend Alex Hofeld is one of those people who lives mindfulness

and also understands a lot of the science behind why mindfulness works for us.

Alex is a high school science teacher.

And man, he has some very fortunate students. I'm telling you because he is incredibly dedicated to the work that he does in the world.

I had a conversation with Alex back in 2016 and it was such a great conversation that I've decided to

replay this conversation again today. So you can also hear Alex's interview. It's not this

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