The day you rise to meet with presence is the day that rises to meet you with possibility.

And that is the thought for today.

Welcome to Seven Good Minutes.

I'm Clyde Lee Dennis.

Thanks for joining me me for what I believe

will be seven of the most enriching minutes of your day. In today's episode of Seven Good

Minutes, we talk about rising to meet the day, not racing through it. Enjoy. There's a difference

between rising to meet your day and racing through it one approach invites

presence intention and grace the other breeds anxiety exhaustion and the feeling

that life is happening to you rather than with you the way you begin each morning

sets the tone for which experience you'll have by the end of of this episode, you'll understand why slowing down

your morning rhythm can actually make your entire day more productive and fulfilling,

and you'll discover practical ways to rise with intention rather than rush with urgency.

Most of us have been conditioned to believe that faster equals better, that busy equals important,

that rushing equals productivity.

We wake up already behind, already stressed, already thinking about everything we need

to accomplish.

We hit the ground running before we've even fully landed in our bodies, in our breath,

in the present moment. But here's what happens when you

race your day instead of rising to meet it. You spend your precious morning energy on anxiety

about the future rather than presence in the now. You start from a place of deficit rather than

abundance, scarcity rather than sufficiency. You begin your day feeling like you're

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