How To Make Time for the Things You Actually Care About | Vinny Ferraro

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Our Teacher of the Month answers a common question: how do I find the time to meditate? Vinny turns this question on its head, and his answer might surprise you.

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.7	Happy Sunday. Hope you're having a good weekend. One of the most common questions I get is
0:24.1	how do you find the time to meditate? And what do you do if you can't find the time? I know my answer
0:29.1	to this question. I've answered this question a million times and I'm always happy to answer it.
0:33.0	But I also love hearing how other people, especially other smarter people than I am, how they answer the question.
0:40.7	So today you're going to hear the great Dharma teacher Vinnie Ferraro take a crack at it.
0:45.0	Vinny is our teacher of the month over at Dan Harris.com, which means he's been creating custom meditations to go along with all of our Monday, Wednesday-Wensday episodes here on the podcast.
0:59.6	Those meditations are only available to paid subscribers over on Dan Harris.com.
1:05.5	Paid subscribers also now get weekly live guided meditation and Q&A sessions every Tuesday at 4 Eastern.
1:06.2	I'll be doing the next live session on Tuesday, September 23rd.
1:10.5	And if you want to meditate with me in person,
1:11.9	I've got a weekend long event coming up at the Omega Institute in Upstate New York. It's the
1:17.4	weekend of October 24th. It's another installment of our ongoing meditation party events.
1:23.1	I'll put a link in the show notes if you want to sign up. We'll get started with Vinnie Ferraro
1:27.1	in conversation with our executive producer, DJ Kashmir, right after this.
1:33.7	Vinnie Ferraro, welcome back. Thanks, DJ. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm so glad you're
1:39.6	here. I really look forward to these and really excited to hear what you have to say for this particular question today.
1:47.0	It's one of the most common questions we get from our community.
1:52.0	And the question is, what do I do if I really want to meditate?
1:56.0	But I just don't have the time.
1:59.0	I get that one from head to toe, bro.
2:04.9	I guess my question is, like,
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