Hey there, it's Rohan. Have you ever felt stuck? Like you'd really like to make a change in your career

or your personal life, but you just couldn't move. Most of us feel stuck at one point or another.

And here's the interesting part. We actually already have the ability to get on stuck.

So why don't we do it? Our coaching partner better up, suggest that because we fear change,

we talk ourselves out of it. Maybe even overthink or overcomplicate the steps we need to take

to keep ourselves from taking action. Our internal antibodies to change, that is to say fear,

takes over. As a quick reminder, we're collaborating with Better Up by using meditative story and

the episode themes to coach you through challenges like getting stuck. If you're feeling stuck,

Better Up can help because here's what their coaches know. We like to think of ourselves as

rational beings, but what really motivates us is positively charged emotions that act as feedback

loops when we need to act. After today's meditative story, I'll share a brief exercise from Better Up

to kickstart the change you'd like to make in your life.

Jimmy invokes all of his warmth and channels my dad to remind me how in these critical moments,

sometimes a slight shift in perspective, that little bit of distance is all I need.

And what I learned from this gratitude exercise is that I had become so zeroed in on my quest

for motherhood, I had lost sight of how otherwise rich and multi-dimensional my life is.

My Ashanka is a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans,

selected as the best show of the year by Apple in 2021. As a girl, she struggles with taking things

too seriously, herself, the sufferings of others, and the hypothetical misfortunes she imagines

for the future. She turns to her father for perspective, and he takes her on a memorable walk,

one that helps her understand her place in the universe. Spoiler alert, it's not at the center of it.

When her adult life brings a new and unexpected kind of sorrow, she turns to these lessons from

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