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Hi, I'm Sam and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday morning.

I hope you had a good weekend and I hope your week is off to a great start.

So over the weekend, I got really caught up in planning a trip that I'm taking soon.

And I spent so much time looking for the perfect hotel and the most affordable options for transportation.

And I ended up not booking anything.

As I was trying to book a rental car, I searched for the best deal, looking up coupon codes and switching between multiple open tabs, trying out different codes with various companies.

I felt a rush as I entered one code for 15% off and it worked.

My next thought was maybe I can find one for 20%.

This was the beginning of what I called the optimization vortex that I get sucked into sometimes.

I amt up my searching, opening more tabs and copying and pasting more codes at a feverish pace.

And at some point, I paused.

I noticed the frantic energy that was sucking me into this familiar cycle.

I noticed sensations in my body, like a feeling of tunnel vision, not seeing what was going on around me, and I felt a clenching in my jaw.

I could tell that I was holding my breath.

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