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Hi, my name's Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's Monday morning. I hope you enjoyed

the weekend. I know in lots of places it's a long weekend. This weekend wherever you are,

I hope you're safe and that you're well. Now, chatting to friends over the last few weeks

or last few months, a number have said to me how they're using this time to reconsider

their lives, you know, what's working for them, what's not working for them professionally,

personally. Are the things that they want to stop doing, are the things they want to

start doing. In those conversations, bought up how they feel perhaps a little nervous about

trying something different, about trying something new. And I think so often in life, we don't

necessarily follow through with the things that we would like to do because we're worried

about the outcome, because we're worried about how it might be experienced by ourselves

or perceived by others. In fact, people often ask me, you know, when you went off to become

a monk, what were you thinking? That's probably the point, I don't think I was thinking.

And of course, there are times when it's really important that we do think ahead, but there

are other times when we tend to overthink things. I'm always reminded of a particular teacher

at circus school. And yet you heard that right, circus school. So after the monastery,

I did a degree in circus arts. And as part of that training, we used to have to do sort

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