Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser, this is the podcast designed to help you

live your life enthusiastically today, tomorrow and every other day. I am your host, Ron Kaiser,

I'm a positive health psychologist and also author of the award winning and best selling

book Rejuvenaging the Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm. My website is the

Mental Health Gym, which is the place where you can find all kinds of information relating

to positive psychology, goal achieving psychology, wellness, rejuven aging and everything along

the line of helping us to grow and become the best versions of ourselves for as long as

we live. This is the final podcast of the year 2020. As is typically the case, we take

off the last two weeks of the year and the first week of the new year in order to both replenish

ourselves, to give ourselves both me and you a break from the podcasts and to focus on

celebrating the holidays in your favorite tradition. As you know, most of these podcasts

feature interesting guests who lead their lives enthusiastically and can help us in doing

the same thing from their own perspectives. Because this is kind of a special podcast,

I thought that I would fly solo today and go over a few things that can be helpful as

we wrap up the old year, look forward to the new year. First of all, 2020 has been a year

that is unlike any that any of us have experienced in the past. It's been very unique and not necessarily

in a good way. We've had to deal with a global pandemic that has resulted in too many lives

lost, too many lives shattered by illness and by the impact of the illness. For example,

the economies of so many countries have gone really south and not been able to recover

for many, many people. So the fact is that especially now with the second surge of COVID-19

cases, all of us probably know somebody who has been affected by the disease, some of

us may know people who have died from it and probably all of us know people whose careers

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