21: The Importance of Selecting the Best Reality
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Inspired by Shawn Achor's best-selling book Before Happiness, today's episode focuses on how we can shift the reality in which we see our lives. From setting self-imposed barriers to opening our lives up to more success and happiness, how we see the world and our own lives is a tremendous determinate in our everyday contentment.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. The Welcome to this week's podcast of the Simple Sophisticate. I hope that your |
| 0:50.6 | weekend went well and I am excited to get back to the 21st episode and |
| 0:55.8 | dive right back in. I don't know if any of you guys have been watching the news this |
| 0:59.8 | past week but if you have you no doubt heard the good news of the successful |
| 1:05.8 | free climb up the dawn wall of the El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The |
| 1:12.0 | two climbers were Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy |
| 1:15.3 | Codwell and they did something that many people believed was absolutely |
| 1:20.4 | impossible. I'll provide a link so that you can look at all the details so I won't go into them in depth now but the premise and why I bring this up is just that whole concept of |
| 1:31.2 | Doing something completing, finishing something that many people never thought could |
| 1:37.0 | be done can and often is done constantly every single day more than we realize. So today the |
| 1:46.8 | episode is going to be all about the importance of setting or choosing our best reality so that we can be successful, be more content |
| 1:58.0 | and experienced life at the level that it's meant to be enjoyed to reach our full potential in other words. |
| 2:04.0 | I want to start off with a quote from this book I just recently read called from Before Happiness |
| 2:10.1 | by Sean Acre and he says quote |
| 2:13.0 | happiness is not about being blind to the negatives in our environment. It's about believing we have the power to do something about them |
| 2:26.4 | Okay, so let's get into this. The reality of the world we live in at first seems to be a constant that we can't change it right? |
| 2:30.4 | Like no matter what we do or say the sky will be blue when the sun is out and there's no clouds and the earth will be round. |
| 2:38.0 | Those kind of things, we think, oh, there's no way we can change it. |
| 2:40.0 | That's reality, it's just the way it's going to be. |
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