073 | C.W. Metcalf: “You Have to Be Willing to Access Joy Even in Adversity.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Ever had a bad day? You know, one of those days when you just feel a little bit blah but have no idea why. Or how about the blues? Maybe a relationship ended or you lost a job and got pretty down about it. Of course these happen to all of us. But what can we do about them?
Today on the QOD show, C.W. Metcalf gives you a few tips for how deal with those days when you’re down and out. This one comes from C.W.’s audio program Lighten Up available on Audible.
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| 0:00.0 | You have to be willing to access joy even in adversity. |
| 0:06.0 | And that is a quote of the day. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and |
| 0:38.3 | of Sean Crox and dot com. Happy Tuesday to you. Today's feature speaker is |
| 0:42.9 | CW Metcalfe has an audio program called Lighting Up and I like this guy |
| 0:47.8 | because he talks about humor and how we can use humor in order to change our |
| 0:52.3 | thoughts, our feelings as well as the way that we act and behave. And in today's |
| 0:56.7 | clip, he talks about having a bad day a few days ago, I had a bad day. And I |
| 1:02.6 | couldn't identify the reason why I was having the bad day. I was just having a |
| 1:07.5 | bad day. And you know what? It's okay to have a bad day because I think he |
| 1:12.3 | says it in this clip, you know, the bad days make us appreciate the really |
| 1:16.1 | good days. And I can remember, if you've been listening to my other podcast and |
| 1:19.6 | following my stuff for a while, you know that maybe 10 years ago, I used to be |
| 1:22.4 | an antidepressant. And when I was only antidepressant, I was happy all of the |
| 1:28.1 | time. Like it was just a consistent mood of happiness all the time. And one of |
| 1:33.4 | the reasons why I decided to get off that medication is not just because of |
| 1:39.1 | other obvious side effects, but because I wanted to feel a little more variety |
| 1:44.6 | with my emotions, because I was happy every day, I just didn't appreciate |
| 1:49.5 | anymore. It was just the same thing every day. And so I can appreciate the |
| 1:54.2 | down days as much as the good days. And so in this clip, CW talks about what a bad |
| 2:00.6 | day really means. He also gives you three steps for dealing with blues and |
| 2:05.8 | here's CW. So I don't want you to use the word depressed lightly. I want to give |
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