Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we are going to talk about why focus equals happiness,

and also where this truth can get you in trouble. More to come on that in a moment. First,

let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. So at the time of recording this, I'm coming off about a month of travel. We spent a few weeks in New York visiting family, and then we spent some time abroad with friends for about a week.

And during that time, I'm taking more time off work.

I usually have two chunks where I scale back a little bit over the summer and at the end of the year when we're with family.

But the winter break is often a little more tricky for me

because I really like the new year. It's where I kind of do a reset, an audit of the past year,

and start to welcome in some energy for where I want to focus my attention in the new year. And so usually when I am

taking time away with family, I do my best to be present, but also in the background of my mind,

I'm just thinking through what is trying to come through. And given that we were away for a longer

chunk of time, now that we have a baby, we try to spend more time with family.

I just found myself away from work for a longer stretch and not having as much of an ability to put some of my ideas into action.

And when we came back, I just felt this swirly, soupy energy. I felt a little bit more dull.

I felt kind of scattered internally. I felt disorganized and restless. And it came up as this

like low grade stress. And I was noticing it specifically

in relationship to child care with our son, because I'm very involved in the child care in

addition to working. And Brianna works as well. And I would notice when it was you know time for me to do let's

just call it a shift or spend some time with the baby there was a little more resistance to it and then

I felt this um kind of impulse that like no I have to get things done to go back in my computer I need to

work and it was interesting because that need to work. And it was

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