The Mindfulness and Resilience Lesson That Keeps Resurfacing

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What happens when you can't control the weather, but you still have to keep pedaling?

That's the question Michael is wrestling with mile after mile on the Empire State Trail, as he rides over 400 miles from the Canadian border to New Jersey.

Michael shares a lesson that keeps resurfacing on every long ride he's ever taken, one of the nine qualities of mindfulness: acceptance.

Not passive resignation, not lowering the bar, but the active practice of seeing things as they actually are before trying to change them.

Because arguing with a headwind, or with the rain, or with reality itself, is an argument you will always lose, and every ounce of energy spent resisting is energy you don't have left to move forward.

Michael also opens up about what's ahead: the anniversary of his last bad day, and tomorrow's episode of this summer's series, A Perfectly Imperfect Union, where he's been talking with everyday Americans about hope, division, and what it takes to come together.

His question for you this week is simple.

Where are you arguing with reality instead of accepting it and taking intentional action?

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