Hey and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I am your host Corey Muscarra and if you are a regular listener, I can say welcome back because we had a short break.

For those of you who aren't up to speed or didn't listen to the last episode. I have been down

and out with the flu, the last week and a half. You might still hear it in my voice a bit. That's where the remnants seem to be up in my chest and in my throat and kind of in my face region, which is why even though the last couple of days I've felt a little bit better, I wanted

to give my voice some rest because too much talking and leading to a lot of strain, and I've had to do, I've had to do some media lately for the book.

So I apologize for the extended delay.

I do hope you understand. And the good news is I really did miss

podcasting and connecting with you all in this way. So I'm very happy to be back and very happy to be celebrating 20 with you.

Happy New Year to you. New Year, new decade, lots to talk about and a lot of exciting things to come.

So we'll get into the episode in a bit, but let's start as we usually do,

which is maybe felt like a very long time since we've done it last, which is

settling in with the sound of the bells. So I will ring the bells, bring your full presence

and focus to the sound all the way until it dissolves into silence. Okay, so it's 2020. Holy moly. A new year, a new decade and I am feeling a lot of excitement around it. Now on the one hand right that's just

another day another moment the idea of it being a new year or a new decade doesn't necessarily mean anything

objectively, right? We're still waking up in the morning, going to bed in the evening.

In some sense, the transition is arbitrary and everything we build around it is completely

arbitrary. But I like having something put in place in this linear creation of time

that sort of like indicates the ending of something

and the beginning of something else. For me, it's just helpful to have that for my mind to

look forward to and to feel a sense of completion around and then a new beginning

around and I've always used the new year

as that arbitrary point for me

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