You're going to go. Hi everyone welcome back to bat on paper podcast I'm Becca Freeman and I'm

Olivia mentor and it is our first book club of 2024 and today we are discussing 4,000 weeks time management for mortals by Oliver Berkman and I hope you read along with us but even if you didn't I think this

conversation will be really interesting to listen to kind of talking about

mortality. What we want out of life? Just small questions.

Yeah, just those two tiny things.

But before we get into that, let's do some highs and lows.

Tell me your high.

So I was going to talk about this floral chaise lounge that I found for $70 at the thrift store that I'm very excited about that I've posted about.

But you know what? I'm going to scrap that. My high is that I think I am getting my spark back as a human being.

Like this month, just the past two weeks have been so good.

I feel so much more excited about life than I have in a really long time. I feel calmer. I don't know. I just feel a lot more like me. I don't know how like it's it's a thing where you don't realize that it was gone until it comes back.

The spark.

I am thrilled for you. Is there anything that happened or that changed that made the

spark come back or you think it just was a natural ebb and flow? I mean I think

partially it's that I've been doing the things I set out to do which of course it's only January but in terms of exercising cooking for myself

but also just being a little bit nicer to myself in general when things don't go the way I want them to which I have a lot of thoughts on that subject which we're going to talk about in this episode.

But I just, I don't know, I feel a lot better.

Like, it makes me kind of emotional.

I don't know.

I just feel really good.

So thank you for being excited about that too.

Very excited.

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