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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

2628: Why Giving Up Control is Giving In to Joy by Dr. Kelly Flanagan

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Dr. Kelly Flanagan talks about why giving up control is giving in to joy Episode 2628: Why Giving Up Control is Giving In to Joy by Dr. Kelly Flanagan Clinical psychologist Dr. Kelly Flanagan is the co-founder of Artisan Clinical Associates in Naperville, IL. He writes weekly about living out redemptive stories on his popular blog, UnTangled. Kelly has also written two books, one titled Loveable: Embracing What is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life, and another named True Companions. Kelly is married to another clinical psychologist named Kelly, and the couple has three children The original post is located here: https://drkellyflanagan.com/why-giving-up-control-is-giving-in-to-joy/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1

loves. They built thoughts together, shared sandwiches in high school and were each other's

0:39.7

first kiss. They were the dream couple until Sam got into EDM music. While Alex enjoyed

0:49.2

folk, first loves are kind of like your current account. If they aren't working for you

0:55.4

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1:00.2

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2628. While giving up control, is giving in to Joy

1:07.5

by Dr. Kelly Flanagan of Dr. Kelly Flanagan.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome back to Optimal

1:13.4

Living Daily or the OLD podcast where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find

1:18.2

and get permission from, mostly covering personal development and minimalism on this show.

1:23.2

We cover other topics in the Optimal Living Daily Podcasts Network, which includes a bunch

1:27.9

of other shows. Definitely subscribe to those if you like this one. Just search for Optimal

1:32.7

Living Daily in your favorite podcast app to find all of them. For now, let's get right

1:37.4

to it and start optimizing your life.

1:44.5

While giving up control, is giving in to Joy by Dr. Kelly Flanagan of Dr. Kelly Flanagan.com.

1:53.2

Let me think this would work better as fiction. Let's submit it in my proposal for the second

1:58.1

nonfiction work of a two book contract and I prepared myself for a rejection, but I

2:03.7

had not prepared myself for the encouragement to do the one thing I've always wanted to

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