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45: Monday Moment: 24 Brand New Hours · Banish the Lies: Outsmart Your Inner Critic

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  Happy Monday.
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  This morning, I was reading a passage from a book called Peace Is Every Breath, and it inspired today's Monday moment.
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  The quote says,"Waking up this morning, I smile.
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  Twenty-four brand-new hours are before me.
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  I vow to live fully each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion." It really caused me to pause because, honestly, I don't think I move through most days as though they're precious or finite.
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  I mostly operate with this assumption that there will always be another tomorrow.
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  It also made me wonder, what does it actually mean to live fully?
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  I thought back to COVID during the shutdowns when I couldn't see my parents for months because they were in Canada, I was in the US, and I remember how painful that felt.
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  And how I promised that once the world opened back up, I would never again take time with loved ones for granted.
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  I think many of us made these types of silent promises.
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  We were gonna learn from this experience.
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  We were gonna slow down, prioritize relationships, stop putting busyness and productivity ahead of what really matters.
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  And then of course, life resumed and the world reopened, schedules filled back up, and many of us slowly slipped back into old patterns.
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  At least I did.
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  I mean, perhaps not completely.
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  I do think the experience changed me.
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  I'm, more aware, more intentional in certain ways, but I also recognize how easy it is to drift back into acting like time is unlimited.
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  And related to that, I've been thinking a lot about my parents as they're getting older.
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  My dad is in his mid-80s, and not to sound morbid, but even if he lives another 10 years, that's 10 summers, 10 Christmases, 10 birthdays.
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  And when I think about it that way, it suddenly doesn't feel like endless time anymore And I'm not sharing this to make anyone sad.
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  Honestly, it's landing to me more as an invitation than a fear.
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  An invitation to pay attention and stop living quite so much on autopilot.
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  To stop assuming there will always be more time later for the phone call, the visit, the conversation, the joy, the rest, the things that matter most.
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  And maybe living fully isn't something grand or dramatic.
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  Maybe it's texting or calling someone while you still can, or taking the walk instead of working through your lunch, sitting in the sun, telling people you love them.
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  Just being a little more present in your own life instead of constantly racing towards the next thing.
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  Because of course, tomorrow isn't guaranteed, and we all know this intellectually, but I think part of being human is that we live as though it is.
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  So today I'm sitting with this question.
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  If these next twenty-four hours were precious, how would I live them differently?
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  Who would I reach out to?
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  What would matter less?
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  What would matter more?
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  And maybe that's the invitation for today, to move through this day with just a little more awareness, a little more connection, a little more intentionality than usual.
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  And maybe in doing that, we begin to live a little more fully.
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  Have a good one.