Welcome to episode 3,157 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you.

This is day two of the series. We're exploring this week where you are on a journey to explore the art of enough and we are following along with a fascinating book called 4,000 weeks by

Oliver Burke. If you lived to the age of 80, you would have 4,000 weeks to live.

This is a book to live your life more consciously.

And as your insight for today, I want to share with you

the notion of finitude from 4,000 weeks.

And then you're going to be guided with a meditation

where you repeat an affirmation so that you remind yourself to slow down, to give yourself permission to

slow down because the idea of fortitude from Oliver Berkman's book is the inescapable truth that

our lives are limited and this is a counterintuitive approach in our culture which is

obsessed with productivity and endless growth. Well, finitude helps to give you a reality check because it

represents acknowledging that your mortality is not morbid, but rather it's

liberating. It forces you to prioritize what truly matters.

When you look at time as a scarce resource, just as you might manage your financial budgets where you don't have endless supplies of money,

maybe you do, but even so, you likely manage your finances in a way that aligns with your life.

Well, the same has to do with how you manage your time.

Finitude implies making conscious choices about how to spend your limited hours.

And a lot of times, we feel we're missing out because we feel as though there's this illusion of infinite time.

When you begin to recognize your limits on time and resources, this can help alleviate

this pressure of FOMO, of missing out and it can help you focus on the present.

So when you think about the brevity of life, it's so important to live in the moment rather than constantly planning for the future.

And when you do this, you begin to understand how your finitude can deepen your appreciation for life and

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