Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

Hey, everyone.

For this week's For The Good of the Order, I'm thinking about very different ideas that

have kind of become woven together in my mind.

One is this thing that I'm working on all the time, which relates to this great Buddhist

notion that our highest impact act of agency is where we place our attention second to

second minute to minute.

And so, if you can kind of cultivate this really high quality of attention, and then you

can zero in on something, that choice of what to zero in on is the most important thing

you'll do all day.

So, either you're focusing on the positive or the negative at a very high level, but this

is something even smaller, which is either you're focused on your hunger or your thirst

or the trees out the window or a hang nail, and that you can choose in any moment to do

this meditation where you return to some part of your body as just a way to focus your

attention on something small and true that creates like a unification of mind.

And then that goes to this other idea that I think about all the time, which is if I'm

thinking about myself and my kids and my work and my husband and my house, and then I catch

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