Welcome. I'm Connor Bieden, and in this holiday special midweek mini episode, we are going to do a quick little recap of 2019 and talk about how to start your year off right.

So first, I'm going to leave you with a little quote by Soren Kierkegaard, one of my favorites, life can only be understood backwards,

but it must be lived forwards. I like this quote because it's a not so gentle reminder that

we can only understand the context of where we are heading the direction that we're heading,

how we can be more effective in creating our

purpose or deepening the intimacy within our relationship by understanding the parts that have come

before us. It reminds me of a great metaphor where it said, life is like rowing a boat.

We enter the future backwards. All we see are the scenes

of the past and no one cannot see the views of tomorrow. Now I love this analogy. I love this

quote because it's so true. I remember reading this for the very first time in thinking, huh, we do enter

the future backwards, right? We enter it not really knowing what's coming. We can kind of see

the views of tomorrow. We can kind of, you know, predict if we're going to the same job and working

the same thing, what might unfold tomorrow. but largely we entered into the future looking back,

looking back at the things that have happened.

And it's important to look back.

So as you're closing out 2019, I hope that you carve out some intentional space to recap and review

the year.

So I'm going to give you a few ways in which you can do that. But first,

I wanted to share some of the things that have happened within the Mantox community over 2019

and specifically within my own life. So this year was a big one on April 6th, Vienna and I got

married in Whistler, BC. And the five days before that, I, maybe not the five

days before that, but the week before that I spent driving her father from New Jersey all the way

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