239 - Becoming Your Best Self Means Releasing Impatience and Entitlement | Life Happens
Life Happens with Barb & Michelle
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
With the New Year comes pressure to become the “best version” of yourself but true transformation starts with intention, patience, and compassion. 💫
In this week’s episode of Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re digging into a modern epidemic fueled by entitlement, comparison, and our fast-paced culture: impatience. We explore why slowing down is not a weakness, but the pathway to confidence, alignment, and ease as we enter 2026.
💬 Barb shares why she chose patience as her intention word for 2026 and offers simple, grounded ways to cultivate patience in everyday life.
💬 Michelle opens up about her struggle with waiting for things to align and how trusting her timing—and herself—completely shifted her experience.
✨ What We Talk About
• The entitlement epidemic: How instant gratification and individualism have shaped our expectations and how awareness helps us reconnect with compassion.
• How impatience hurts us: Acting out of alignment, rushing decisions, and feeling hopeless when life isn’t moving fast enough.
• Patience attains all things: Trusting your timing, embracing the “in-between,” and finding purpose in waiting seasons.
• Building a relationship with yourself: Pausing, breathing, reconnecting, and beginning again, over and over.
Remember: the day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.
Have patience. Your small shifts matter—and they are creating a better tomorrow.
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💛 Episode Topics
- The consequences of impatience
- Why we’re more entitled than ever
- How patience attains all things
- Combatting hopelessness and stress
- Cultivating patience in our daily lives
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Life Happens with Barb and Michelle and Happy New Year. We are so thrilled, |
| 0:06.6 | as always, to be with you all entering into this new season of 26, and we hope that you all |
| 0:13.9 | had a wonderful holiday, a wonderful end to 2025, and we're so grateful to be starting this new |
| 0:20.1 | chapter with you all. Hi, Mom, Happy New Year. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi, Michelle. Happy New Year. How is it feel to be in this new chapter? Well, I'm laughing because |
| 0:29.7 | I'm laughing when you said Happy New Year because I've seen so many memes and so many things |
| 0:34.9 | on social media saying, oh my gosh, please don't bring 2026 the way |
| 0:39.4 | 2025 was. I want something totally different. So it's just interesting that we always start |
| 0:44.3 | the new year saying, happy new year. I was going to say, don't you always feel like that happens, |
| 0:50.6 | like with memes, with internet culture of like we don't want what has passed we want |
| 0:55.8 | something new but yeah it's kind of how it goes yeah and I think what I really liked about seeing |
| 1:00.7 | some of the memes recently is it feels like we want a simpler life yeah we want things to be a little |
| 1:07.5 | bit less chaotic a little bit less speeded up, a little bit less, you know, filled |
| 1:14.3 | with so much that causes us to feel out of control. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.5 | Because we talk about control a lot. |
| 1:19.9 | That is our greatest thing, really, as humans. |
| 1:22.6 | We want control in places where we don't have it. |
| 1:24.6 | So yeah, I think in 2026, you know, being a lot more thoughtful, |
| 1:30.0 | maybe, and more mindful. And I hate to use the word slowing down because people think, oh, I can't |
| 1:35.0 | slow down. These don't tell me to do that. But I really mean being more intentional. Yeah. |
| 1:39.8 | Which is what we're going to talk about today. The name of the game. It is. I mean, regardless of how |
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