So what if you had the ability to feel peaceful at ease, grounded, focused, and calm?

No matter what was happening around you, no matter how calamitous or virtuous, loud or quiet things were.

And what if that power also came with the ability to notice when your mind had dropped into a spin

cycle of self-destructive overthinking, chattered, doom-looping, fear, and overwhelm, and then

literally just let it all go.

Even if the circumstances were still there, it would give you this proverbial off switch and guide you back to

peace and ease. Today I want to share a deeply personal journey with you, one that in

a sense builds on the conversation that we began last week around attention and also

probably explains to you my long-standing fascination with and commitment to meditation and why I believe

it is the single most powerful and

accessible meta skill in your quest to live a good life no matter what comes

your way because it gives you agency over your attention.

And as you will hear me share even more than circumstance,

where your attention goes, so goes your life.

This will also be the final bonus episode. As regular

listeners know for many years, we've produced two episodes a week but

starting in December of last year. We added a third bonus episode, first to help guide you through

a special year-end review process.

And for the first few weeks in January to support our month-long January jumpstart series, with a clear framework for achievement,

and now in this final bonus episode with a much more personal story about the power of

meditation in a way that you may have never thought about it and why you might want to explore saying yes to starting your own practice today.

And I'll wrap this final bonus episode with a very special kind of guided practice that's designed to both bring you

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