Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,

welcome back.

We all have things we'd like to accomplish in life, but just having goals or knowing

that we should be doing something is often not even nearly enough to get us to actually

sustain the effort required to get where we want to go.

And I speak from considerable personal experience there.

So what can we do to get the brain's motivational machinery on our side and build the habit of

discipline over time?

That's what we're going to be exploring today.

To help us do that, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical psychologist,

he's a best-selling author, and he's also my dad.

So dad, how are you doing today?

I'm really good for us and one thing that I kind of hope we can explore is how you can

feel both relaxed and spacious and mellow while being continually called to do greater

good for yourself and for other people, how to find that sweet spot.

Maybe I'm giving away too much that we're going to be getting into here, but I have to tell

you not at all.

It's a great preview.

There's a kind of a line.

There are old climbers and there are bold climbers.

There are very few old bold climbers.

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