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If you were around last week, I feel compelled to report that I think I jinxed myself. I was talking about what a good job I had done the previous week of keeping myself focused and my wits about me.

Well, the forces that be decided to put that to the test this week.

It was almost as if the universe was saying to me,

oh, really, Mr. Podcast guy, who did such a good job last week.

Well, let's see how you do with this.

And let's just say, I didn't fend as well.

It's been a bit of a rough week and I've been managing as best I can.

Some of the stuff I was talking about last week in terms of feeling like I'm up against a machine.

I was talking about my daughter and the screen time on her phone.

Well, that continues to be part of what's going on, I think.

But it's bigger than that, too.

It's things that are happening in my immediate life like that with my daughter

combined with this larger

picture and general feeling of doom. Now, whether or not that feeling of doom is really

warranted, or maybe that's just been conditioned on me, if you watch the news even for like

a couple of minutes.

But I think I generally have two ways that I try to turn it around or address it for myself.

One, as you know, if you listen to this show, I enjoy wallowing in the big ideas.

Sometimes if I can hold a certain idea or value that I've contemplated and considered and it's well thought through, it gives me a certain something to go off of to to feel into what's happening it's like a

perceptual lens and me having some say about that perceptual lens like i don't have all the say

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