Hi Besties! Welcome back to Trying It To Care. It's your girl Ashley. So apparently I have

been using my microphone wrong this entire time and I didn't know until I uploaded a video

of me using my microphone and my boyfriend was like, babe, you are such a big dummy. You're

using it wrong. So hopefully, I'm using it right now. So hopefully, this sounds better,

but maybe it'll sound worse. Maybe I have been using it wrong, but it was sounding kind

of good. I don't know. We'll see. But I'm using it correctly. Also, if you're listening

to this on Spotify, Anchor, or Apple, I also am now doing the podcast on YouTube if you

like to see a visual. So we have that going for us now. But I appreciate wherever you

listen to the podcast. And let's just dive into today's episode. We all have goals or

things that we want our life, even just things that we wish we could buy or we wish that

we could have that we don't have in our possession in the present moment. And it's very

normal for us to want instant gratification. And that's why it feels so damn good when

you get a fuck ton of likes on Instagram or your video on TikTok goes viral overnight.

It feels good to be reassured and validated for your work or validated for just who you

are as an individual. When you're doing good in life and you're making a good amount

of money and you're actively working towards your goals and things are just working out

in your favor, it's really easy not to focus on what others are doing because you're

so focused on you and what's going right in your life. But when things aren't looking

up for you and you keep running into dead ends and you're not making the amount of money

that you want, you aren't working the job that you want, you aren't living the life

that you want. You just aren't where you'd like to be in life. It's easy for our eyes

to shift to someone else who does have all of that right now and be ourselves up for

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