You are given a sentence in Japanese. Your job is to translate the Japanese sentence into English.

「よい暮らしとはなんだろう」と今朝考えていたんですが残りのプレゼンをお見せする前に TEDのルールを破って私の著書の一部を読みあげたいと思いますなるべく手短にね
And I was thinking this morning of the good life, and before I show you the rest of my presentation, I'm going to violate TED rules here, and I'm going to read you something from my book as quickly as I can.