How To Live A Good Life Lewis Pratten

This episode analises a negative experience I went through with my dog suffering a heat stroke. It was a challenging few days that I struggled with, even though gererally, I feel I am well prepared and well equiped for difficult situations.

There is so much we take for granted each and every day and a lot of the time difficult situations highlight that and alow us to have a greater appreciation for the little things.

The first ep of the new series and it's a banger. Nicole is a hugely knowlegable neuroscientist with a great perspective on life and is someone that has so much value to offer every time she speaks. She's much sought after public speaker and soon to be a publsihed author as well.

This ep will be the first of a few we will do together as there is so much to unpack and get through. This episode revolves mainly around habits, perspective and getting your reps in.

A short and sweet episode bringing you a breif summary of the vibe of this past series of How To Live A Good Life as well as an introduction into this new series I am bringing next week.

I started this podcast as a way of sharing lessons, philosophies and ways of living that I have always found useful from my own experiences. Series 4 is about getting others on board and to share their perspective on what a good life is and how they look to live it every day.

The focus may be changing, but the vibe always stays the same.

Do hard things and your life will be easy.

We've all heard about how being more present can improve our lives. This episode goes into the benefits of being engaged with what you are doing moment to moment.

Focus is a skill that can be built over time. Our bains are forming habits based on our repeated behaviours. We are either exercising our ability to focus or training ourselves to be distraced.

As with all skills, the more regularly we can practice being focused, the stronger our ability to focus becomes.

If you want to make improvements in any area, it's all about getting your reps in.

Your brain and body can only learn through repeptition so the key to making a long lasting positive change, is all influenced by the small choices you are making moment to moment each day.

Small changes over time are powerful, 5.5 reps per day will take you past 10,000 reps in under 5 years.

High quality reps = high quality results.

There aren't many more valuable skills than being able to find the good in bad experiences, or better yet being able to flip negatives experience into positives ones.

How To Live A Good Life is a podast that revolves around giving you the tools to make your life better, and the only way we can truely make our lives better is to practice those using those tools.

Last week my phone was stolen and it gave me the perfect opportunty to practice using these skills. To turn this negative into a positive and to find a way to learn and grow through something that in the past I would have let get the better of me.

p.s please be patient with me in this podcast as I have been losing my voice all week! 😂