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A popular Buddhist teacher guides you through strategies to build and maintain a rock-solid daily meditation practice--from setting reminders to dealing with setbacks to introducing the philosophical concepts underpinning Buddhist meditation--and everything in between. It's widely known that there are many benefits to meditation, particularly if undertaken regularly, but making it a daily habit can be a challenge for many people. Why? Because it takes more than willpower. Here, longtime meditation teacher and Buddhist blogger Bodhipaksa presents a collection of strategies and tools to help build a rock-solid daily meditation practice into your life. The book is divided into 28 chapters, one for each day. Each chapter starts with a Practice Reminder, just a few words reminding readers of the importance of practicing meditation rather than merely reading about it. There's also a link to a web page of guided meditations. Following that is a Today section, a brief summary of the day's reading. Then there's a Strategies section, which offers suggestions to help readers build the habit of meditating daily. Strategies can be as simple as setting reminders or using a meditation timer, or more involved tools such as changing any belief that you lack what it takes to meditate daily. That's followed by a Going Deeper section, with a deeper exploration of some of the Buddhist teachings underpinning our practice, often referring to the suttas, or scriptures, of early Buddhism. Next is a Journal/Reflection section, which encourages readers to make the content of the Going Deeper section more experiential. Each chapter ends with a Last Words section, quickly summarizing the Going Deeper section.