115: What is Reality?

The Teen Life Coach

Kids & Family

4.6 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever look at someone else's life and then ask yourself, "What is wrong with me?". It's easy to compare ourselves to what we perceive as another person's reality. This episode we talk about what the real reality is!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.
0:10.4	I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about what is reality.
0:18.9	Hey everyone.
0:20.6	Welcome to the podcast this week, episode 115. It is hot here in Arizona.
0:28.7	Oh my goodness. It's been 117, 118 this week. So you can just imagine me sitting here by my computer
0:37.4	sweating while I'm recording this
0:39.3	podcast, all right?
0:40.6	Because that is totally what I'm doing.
0:43.4	And I just am trying to remind myself how nice the winters are here when it starts to cool
0:49.9	down.
0:50.2	For this week's podcast, I wanted to introduce a principle to you that I learned from
0:56.9	my mentor. And I coach on this quite a bit. So I was like, you know what? I need to do a podcast
1:03.9	on it. Okay. So this principle is important because we all have misconceptions about what our lives are supposed to look like
1:13.9	and how we are supposed to be and who we are supposed to be. So we are really good at comparing
1:21.9	ourselves to what we perceive as how we should be in various situations. Okay. So I coach on this a lot where I will have a
1:32.4	teenager that I'm working with and they will be experiencing an uncomfortable emotion. And then they'll
1:38.8	feel like something's wrong with them. The fancy name for this principle that I'm going to be talking about today is it's called
1:47.7	the 50-50 principle. And basically what that means is that life is 50% positive emotion like happiness,
1:59.7	excitement, joy, love. and it's also 50% uncomfortable
2:05.9	emotion like sadness loneliness fear anxiety all right we as human beings are not
2:13.8	supposed to be happy and comfortable all of the time. Okay, that's not the purpose of our
2:20.2	existence and life comes with frustrations. Okay, that's just the way that it is. The purpose of our
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