Welcome. I'm Connor Beaton and today we are going to talk about how to deal with the laziest part of yourself.

So I'm going to start with this. Anthony Bourdain once said, there's a guy in my head and all he wants to do is lay in bed all day long. Smoke pot and watch old movies and cartoons. My life is a series

of stratagems to avoid and outwit that guy. Who is that guy for you? And what do you want to do to avoid him avoid him now Anthony Bordane didn't say the last part

that's a that's a question um for you to really think about and it's a question for you to dive into

on your own so I'm just going to tell you that question against the question is who is that guy

for you or that woman for you?

And what do you try and do to avoid him?

That's just a prompt for you to do some journaling on and do some writing on.

But I'm going to give you the sort of like four pillars of how I have embarked on this journey of dealing with the lazy person within me. And, you know,

first and foremost, just obviously to sort of address the fact that, you know, this past year,

Anthony Bourdain took his life and, and, you know, who knows what he was going through and who

knows what was what was happening within his mindset and his psyche, you know, that led him down that path,

obviously some personal issues. But it's, you know, it's a good reminder that we can externally

appear to have it all and internally feel like we are completely broken. And it's, it's a

reminder for us to have compassion with ourselves and to remind ourselves that if we're feeling like that,

that we're not alone in that struggle.

And to remind ourselves also that just because we feel

like we're in a great place in our lives,

doesn't mean that the people around us are.

So to connect with them with more compassion,

with more empathy and understanding than we normally

might do so. So, okay, how do we deal and face the laziest parts of ourselves? Well, first and

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