Finding Purpose In Your Life, Day 4 Staying Motivated When You Feel Like Giving Up
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
"Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can't escape from than a safe place you can retreat to."
― Chris Guillebeau, "The Happiness of Pursuit"
Do you feel like you're having a hard time staying motivated these days? Why not pursue a new life purpose? This week you're invited to create a Quest -- a new purpose for your life.
This is day 2 of a 7-day Staying Motivated When You Feel Like Giving Up series, episodes 2320-2326.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,323 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and here you are getting ready to do one of the most important things |
| 0:13.6 | you could do for yourself all day long and that is to meditate. |
| 0:19.3 | There's more and more research coming out these days showing how meditation is one of |
| 0:26.6 | the best things you can do for your mind, your body and to uplift your spirits. |
| 0:33.6 | And that's what this week is all about. |
| 0:37.0 | The theme we're exploring all week long is how to stay motivated when you feel like giving |
| 0:43.2 | up and to help you hone your motivation muscles. |
| 0:48.3 | You have a very special challenge this week. |
| 0:52.0 | Your challenge is to create a quest to think about what you are passionate about. |
| 1:02.8 | And this might be something that you've done in the past or it could be something that |
| 1:08.4 | you've always yearned for in your life. |
| 1:11.4 | Maybe you've always wanted to travel or maybe you have always wanted to live a certain |
| 1:18.6 | way. |
| 1:20.9 | But maybe you're not able to do that right now. |
| 1:24.2 | Maybe you could go on a quest to capture that feeling of how you want to live. |
| 1:32.2 | I did this when I moved from Japan back to the United States and at that time I was living |
| 1:41.8 | in Seattle and when I was living there I really missed the Japanese tea ceremony. |
| 1:49.8 | Fortunately in Seattle there's a strong Japanese influence. |
| 1:57.3 | So there were some tea houses and there were also some beautiful Japanese gardens and |
| 2:04.8 | some shops that had Japanese decor. |
| 2:10.0 | There was a Japanese grocery store, my favorite one when I lived in Japan. |
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