You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 186.

Welcome to the Lively Show.

I'm your host Jess Lively, and this blogcast is designed to

uplift, inspire, and add a little extra intention to your everyday.

Hey guys, welcome to the show.

As I am recording this, it is now past midnight in London.

I'm here in a flat in Chelsea and I'm sitting here in the dark with a candle lit. It's kind of a

dramatic way for me to record a show to be honest.

Typically I record during the day and I have lights on and all those sorts of things

but today's a little different or tonight I guess or this morning however you want to look at it.

I have decided to do something different for this episode. My initial idea came from a

listener who asked me to do a roundup of 10 things that I had learned in 2016 and I thought

it sounded like a really great idea for the last episode of the year.

However, as I was laying in bed, I was trying to fall asleep, and there's honestly a party going on in an apartment building near mine here in Chelsea, so falling asleep wasn't as easy, and I was laying in bed with my noise cancelling

headphones on trying to just fall asleep and all this said and I started to

think about that episode and how I wasn't excited to do it. There was something

about it that wasn't feeling right and to be honest the show in general

I've been having some interesting feelings around. So as I laid there and thought about that all of the sudden this blast from the past it feels like a few

years ago honestly well it was a few years ago honestly it feels like a few lifetimes

ago as well I did this post that came to mind and I've completely not thought about it in a very long time

probably two years or so I have not thought about this but way back in March of 2012 I had

to look up the date since I had no idea when I had done it that really does feel like a lifetime ago.

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