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Oh, loa, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about

knowing when enough is enough. Today I'm taking a piece out of the Dow de Ching and it is, you know, another

one of those ancient books that has so much amazing wisdom in it and it's great to

stop once in a while and actually review these things. I'm going to talk about the 44th verse. The ancient

sage Lautu had to say about stopping some really interesting things, knowing when enough is enough.

And I think I'll just read you the 44th verse straight up here before we get going.

Which means more to you? straight up here before we get going.

Which means more to you?

You or your renown.

Which brings more to you?

You or what you own. I say what you gain is more trouble than what you lose. Love is the fruit of sacrifice. Wealth is the fruit of generosity. A contented man is never disappointed. He who knows when to stop is preserved from peril. Only thus can you endure long. So it's interesting to me it feels like Lautu was saying he who

knows that enough is enough shall always have enough and it's kind of interesting in this day and age because we don't always look at life that

way.

We have a tendency to attach and to go overboard sometimes.

And I wanted to deal, I wanted to talk about it because it shows up in a lot of different ways with anxiety.

And just to begin with, of course everyone knows when you are searching, searching

endlessly, there is no peace in that.

So let's see what it is that's going on here

with having enough and knowing that we have enough.

Dealing with stress and anxiety, that we often spend a lot of time focused outside ourselves looking for both the problems and the answers to be external.

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