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Good morning and welcome to Wake Me Up.

The podcast Where Morning People Are Made.

I'm Tyler, your host, as always.

These days, the world is full of things that claim to be instant paths to happiness or success or health,

their get-rich quick schemes, but they never really work.

And if they do, then they all but guarantee you'll lose whatever you've found just as quickly

as you got it. The truth is you can't

hack success or health or happiness. Things of real, meaningful value require hard work and dedication.

And when it comes specifically to happiness,

that personal feeling of fulfillment in life.

There's nothing more important than building a routine of good old self-reflection.

Time to introspect, because it's the long winding journey of understanding yourself

that allows for you to lead a happy life so that's what we'll do today. And before we get into anything, let's start with a couple of deep breaths.

So inhale and fill all the way up.

Hold at the top for just a second,

and then exhale, just let all of the air fall back out.

No need to force it.

Once more now, inhale,

filling even deeper this time.

Hold and exhale.

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