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How To Be Awesome At Everything

140. How To Be Awesome At Putting Things In Perspective

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

Business

4.6621 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lindsay is sharing a personal story that took her actual life perspective and shook it up a bit.

Your perspective on life determines how you relate to people, how you handle relationships and conflicts, and how you live day-to-day.

It's the most important.  

But then why are we often walking around with a perspective that doesn't make sense. 

Picture something that you're upset about or you're losing sleep over. 

Now picture - the worst- you get a call that someone you love was hit by a bus.  That shit means nothing now. 

Lindsay says, "if someone asks me how I'm doing these days, even if shit is going bonkers all around me, I say I'm doing awesome, because I didn't get a call today that one of people closest to me is sick or hurt."

She explains that she's not saying if it's not cancer it's not allowed to stress you out, she's just trying to share the perspective shake up that she experienced. 

Lindsay tells the story of her visit to City Of Hope and how it changed her perspective on what is worth worrying about. 

Lindsay talks often about The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F all the time- but this is a bit different.  

This is about having a clear perspective of what's worth getting upset/sad/worked up/depressed over, and letting go of the rest of it. 

Sometimes things matter, until something that really matters happen. 

Care about nothing except for the health of the people you love the most. 

You know who says all of this best?  Gary V.  

Say you're being sued and that's super stressing or you run a business and you worry that your employees hate you, or you're holding on to something that a former friend or spouse did to you, or are worried about losing an account at work, or mad that someone stepped on your toes in some way, or someone gossiped about you and it came back to you… 

That's way better than someone you love being hit by a bus tomorrow.

But we don't act like that. 

It's hard to get upset about anything else besides that.

That's what's worth being upset about and everything else is awesome. 

Lindsay says, "I'm not saying you can't be upset about these things, I'm just asking you to think… is it worth it???"

Your perspective determines so much in your life.  Lindsay thinks it's worth looking at together.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In this episode, I'm sharing a personal story that took my actual life perspective and shook it up a bit.

0:07.2

I love the book, The Simple Art of Not Giving an F, so I thought I had this whole thing down, but I'm telling you, this took it to the next level.

0:15.7

Your perspective on life determines how you relate to people, how you handle relationships and conflicts, and how you

0:22.2

live day to day. It's the most important. But then, why are we often walking around with a

0:27.6

perspective that doesn't make sense? Picture something that you're upset about or you're losing

0:32.8

sleep over. Now picture, the worst, you get a call that someone you love was hit by a bus. That shit

0:39.3

means nothing now. I'm telling you, if someone asks me how I'm doing these days, even if shit is

0:44.4

going bonkers all around me, I say I'm doing awesome because I didn't get a call today that one of the

0:49.6

people closest to me is sick or hurt. I'm not saying if it's not cancer, it's not allowed to stress you out.

0:55.5

I'm just trying to share the perspective shakeup that I experienced. Let's go.

1:00.1

You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with

1:05.4

life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner,

1:12.3

a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept started

1:18.4

as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to give to her kids one day,

1:23.1

and now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do.

1:29.6

Here's Lindsay.

1:36.1

Welcome back to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast. I have a story that I am so excited to share with you today.

1:43.8

And it's all about our life perspective.

1:47.2

And I thought going into this experience that I had a very balanced life perspective. I'm constantly

1:54.6

reading and listening and learning and trying to be self-actualized and recognize my own fails, let go of the past, do all the

2:03.6

self-improvement work, work through issues. Like, I'm just constantly trying to learn. And I felt

2:10.1

like I had a good perspective. I don't let little things bother me. But I'm telling you,

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