Let's be honest, you're never really alone.

Your phone is always there, your email, your texts, your notifications.

Someone is always one click away, one call away, one scroll away, except when you turn it all off,

when you're just there with yourself.

And that's when you realize how uncomfortable that is being alone with yourself.

Just you, no distractions, no escape.

And you don't know what to do with that. Let's dive in. I'm Chad Lawson,

and let's calm it down in three, two, one. When was the last time you spent time with yourself?

Not just physically alone, but actually present, actually paying attention.

No phone, no TV, no podcasts, yes, I know.

No book, which is hard for me.

No task.

Just you, your own company. A lot of us avoid it, right? Because being alone with ourselves, oh no, it's uncomfortable.

Our thoughts are loud, our feelings are messy. The silence is heavy.

So we fill up the space with noise, with people, with anything that keeps us from having to sit with ourselves.

But guess what?

The relationship you have with yourself is the longest relationship you'll ever have.

You ever thought about that? You're stuck with you for better or

worse, right? In sickness and in health for your entire life. And if you can't stand to be

alone with yourself, what does that say? Maybe you don't like who you are when no one's watching. Maybe you're harder on yourself

than you'd never be on anyone else. Maybe the voice in your head is cruel. It's critical. It's

relentless. And being alone means listening to that voice with no distraction, no buffer, no escape,

...