hink only about this delicious beverage you're about to have. Put all of your thoughts just into the beverage in front of you. And there, you just rebooted. And now the simultaneous sip.

I heard the best advice, maybe life-changing advice, in a partial commercial for something. I don't even know what the product was. But the advice was this. Somebody was saying they couldn't imagine meditating because how could you sit there for 20 minutes and try to clear your mind? It just seems impossible. You can't fit it in your schedule. You can't imagine clearing your mind. It's just sort of impossible.

Well, the first thing you need to know is clearing your mind isn't necessary. It's not even useful. It's not even possible. So when people tell you that meditation is clearing your mind, they're just wrong. It's not a thing. But there is such a thing as calming your mind and maybe concentrating on something that's right there in the room with you, such as your breathing. And it allows your brain—which really is not a multi-process device, your brain does not multitask. It feels like it because you can rapidly switch between thoughts, so it feels like you're multitasking, but you're not. You're really a one-thing-at-a-time device.

So if you can make yourself think of just one non-stressful thing—your breathing, how your muscles feel, the tension in parts of your body—just calm it down. Now here's the advice. When I said to you imagine taking 20 minutes and just sort of sitting quietly, a lot of you said, "I could never do that. I could never do that." Here's the life-changing advice: Do it for 10 seconds. That's it.

For some of you that just completely changed your life. I wouldn't have to say any other thing. I just changed completely the lives of a whole bunch of you. Here's why. Because you all know you could do it for 10 seconds, right? You just did it. I just did the simultaneous sip. Some of you did. You know, some of you actually went along with it and you said, "Oh yeah, I could just concentrate on what's directly in front of me for 10 seconds."

Because if you could do it for 10 seconds, maybe you liked it. And some people say, "10 seconds? I could do that for a minute." Next thing you know, you're doing it for 20 minutes. But it doesn't have to be 20 minutes. There's no magic about 20 minutes. More is better. If you could do a little bit more, do a little bit more. Sort of just chew on it over time. And nobody said you have to be the meditator tomorrow, right?

And when you look at the amount of anxiety and mental health problems there are in the world, how many of those do you think could be helped by people just learning to slow down at least once per day? Just to reboot. Probably a lot. Yeah, yeah. Meditation is one of those things that has stood th