This is Karen Hunter and up in the morning. I didn't get up quite as early as I wanted to so I didn't put in an hour. I only did 30 minutes, but it is going to be hopefully if I can stick with it a profound impact

because the goal is to be better the goal is to be better tomorrow than I am today

and to in order for that to happen I have to push myself to do things that a may be

uncomfortable and b may not be something that I like doing so I did two things today

that I didn't feel like doing reading I love I did

reading. I love reading but I like to read in my own time and I read in different places

but I made it a thing the first thing in the morning to read and the second thing I did today was go to the gym.

Now let me just say I know I need to go to the gym.

I have been not going to the gym as frequently and I've been giving myself an out because

I do have a gym in my home but it's not the same as going to the gym and putting myself through the torture that I did today and I tortured myself today. Can I keep it up? We're going to keep having this conversation. Hopefully I will,

hopefully doing this publicly. I will be holding myself accountable and you'll be holding me

accountable spiritually. But the reading was important because as I talked about in my last

podcast and I talked about the psychiatrist who said that you have to read an hour

every morning, I know I'm going to work up to that because I didn't get up quite as early as I expected to today,

but putting in a 30 minutes and he said reading not just ordinary things,

reading different things, reading things that challenge you.

Reading, he said reading the things that everyone else is reading is not going to make

you extraordinary.

It's going to make you ordinary.

So I downloaded or uploaded the fire next time by James Baldwin.

I'm an English major, but I never did read this book

because I went to Drew University.

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