#17: Donkeys, Murals, and Neighboring with Rachel Anne Ridge
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
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🗓️ 3 January 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Do you have those people in your life who give off a calming presence and just being around them makes you feel like everything is going to work out in the end? My friend Rachel is like that. She is an artist who can also say has written a book about her stray donkey. Now not many people can say that.
What we chat about:
Her grown children and her perspective looking back An unexpected way she shows love to her husband A practical way in which they have been a neighbor to someone who needed it A glimpse into life with small kids and a small business How the quote "opportunity favors the prepared" has proven true in her life
Strategy to Struggle Well
Remember: you're more likely to succeed at your plan if you make it small and actionable AND if you choose when this week you'll do it.
How can you show your husband (or a friend) that you care in an unexpected way this week? Is there a neighbor that comes to mind who could use some tangible assistance this week? What project has been weighing on you that you need to just start?
My plan: I'm going to cook a nice meal with my husband because he REALLY loves that and we will discuss Tsh's questions and celebrate his new job.
What about you? Find me on your favorite social media channel and tell me about it!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You build, that's what you do. |
| 0:02.2 | Well, in reality, you stay overtime, fill out stacks of paperwork, |
| 0:06.8 | sorts through endless drawings, spend hours trying to project manage. |
| 0:11.4 | But not anymore. |
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| 0:18.0 | in real time, so you can get back to what you do best. |
| 0:22.0 | Building. |
| 0:23.0 | Request a demo now at procore.com. Procore |
| 0:27.0 | building software for the people who build the world. My name is Emily Thomas and I am a mom on a mission to get a new perspective. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi and welcome to the Mom Struggling Well podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My name is Emily Thomas and I am a mom on a mission to get a new perspective. |
| 0:45.2 | Y'all I am not proud of it but I spent far too long waiting for my daily |
| 0:49.3 | irritations to resolve before the good times can begin. |
| 0:52.9 | And I'm thinking the struggles are just going to keep coming, so I might as well get a new plan. |
| 0:57.8 | God promises if we persevere through our daily struggles, our character will be built, and we'll end up with a hope that doesn't |
| 1:03.8 | disappoint and I don't know about you but my hardest days happen when I've lost |
| 1:07.9 | sight of that hope. So if that's your story too, join me each week as I |
| 1:11.8 | interview someone who is passed from just struggling |
| 1:14.5 | to struggling well. Happy New Year friends I hope you had a great holiday |
| 1:20.3 | season and I wish you luck on all your resolutions to never eat a single cupcake in 2016. |
| 1:25.6 | I don't usually make resolutions because I already know that I have no willpower, but something |
| 1:30.4 | I can't stop talking about is Laura Casey's power sheets's not sponsoring this show by the way but I just love them so I wanted to tell you about them. |
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