Welcome to Karen Hudders Awesome.

And you know this is going to be our best year.

I'm starting this year reading The Four Agreements is one of the 12 books that I'm reading this year.

I'm rereading this. Actually, I'm going to be rereading Don Miguel Ruiz's book every year.

I'm going to start January with the four agreements. Why? Because I think it's important to remember and remind myself why I'm here and how I get better.

And rereading this book has never been a disappointment.

I want to start with the Toltec. Before he gets to the agreements, he is talking about the people

who were here thousands of years ago. And I want to start there because we are, those of us,

if you are 30, listening to this, 40, 15, 65, 80, you have not even scratched the surface of time.

And I know for your life, you're like, I've lived a long time.

No, this is no time at all.

And the times that we're in, I want to remind you that they're light and momentary.

They are blip in the annals of time. This is a little asterisk. This is a little dash in the

annals of time. But there were people thousands of years ago. And this is Don Miguel what he writes,

the Toltecs. Thousands of years ago, he writes, the Toltec were known

throughout southern Mexico as women and men of knowledge. And he quotes it because this is not his

writing, something he knows, he's read. Anthropologists have spoken of the Toltec as a nation or a race,

but in fact, the Toltec were scientists and artists

who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones.

They came together as masters and students at Totech Hohan, the ancient city of pyramids outside Mexico City known as the place

where, quote, man becomes gods. Over the millennia, the Nguiles were forced to conceal the

ancestral wisdom and maintain his existence in obscurity. European conquest, coupled with rampant misuse of

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