306. How To Be Awesome At Turning The Worst Thing Into The Best Thing

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

Business

4.6 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Every year around my birthday I'm like, ok, what's the secret unlock at this age? Like what have I learned and what I am doing that makes the biggest difference in my life?

This year, that skill that I've unlocked in myself this ability to turn what feels like the worst thing, into the best thing.

In a very practical and realistic way.

So aside from anything really really sad in life, this strategy allows you to get out of thinking and saying how much this sucks or is unfair or is the worst thing that could happen. And flipping it to- how could this become the best thing?

I'm going to fully explain it because once you set yourself up like this - it's crazy how you can see the same situations completely differently.

It's saying to yourself, this sucks, and it's not at all what I wanted. But, how could it actually be the best thing?

You have to listen to this full episode - it's 20 minutes or so that will change the way you react when things go sideways.

Things that are awful - like getting fired or someone breaking up with you or you don't get the promotion or don't get into the college or high school that you wanted. You sprain your ankle and can't workout for 3 months and it's your favorite thing..

This is what we know for sure…
Bad things happen.
People dont know how to cope.
And they allow one bad thing to snowball into more.

THIS IS THE UNLOCK!
Bad things suck.
The only thing worse is letting one bad thing ruin many good things.

One bad thing happens and the way you operate afterwards is what more bad things happen.

Because really… things aren't good or bad- they just are.

It's becoming anti fragile as we go.

People often dont know how to cope with bad stuff.
Thats how you end up with this weird spiral with more bad things happening.
People dont know how to manage their emotions so they just react.

The more I try to create space between how I feel and what I do, the more I've been able to control my outcomes in situations.

It's a superpower, I'm telling you. The next time something in your life sucks, ask yourself, how can this actually be the best thing ever?

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0:00.0	Every year around my birthday, I'm like, okay, what's the secret unlock at this age?
0:06.1	Like, what have I learned and what am I doing that makes the biggest difference in my life?
0:10.3	This year, that skill that I've unlocked in myself is this ability to turn what feels like the
0:16.2	worst thing into the best thing in a very practical and realistic way. So aside from anything really, really
0:23.5	sad in life, this strategy allows you to get out of thinking and saying how much this sucks or is
0:29.8	unfair or is the worst thing that could happen and flipping it to how could this become the best
0:35.3	thing. I'm going to fully explain it because once you set yourself up
0:39.1	like this, it's crazy how you can see the same situations completely differently. It's saying to
0:45.1	yourself, this sucks and it's not at all what I wanted, but how could it actually be the best thing?
0:51.2	You have to listen to this full episode. It's 20 minutes or so that will
0:54.2	change the way you react when things go sideways. Let's go. You're listening to the How to Be
0:59.7	Awesome at Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome.
1:06.5	Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants
1:12.4	to do things over the top at all times. This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay
1:18.0	has learned that she was documenting to get to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast.
1:22.8	Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. Here's Lindsay.
1:32.0	There are so many examples of this in our lives of things that suck, that we have every right
1:41.3	to be mad about, that we have every right to have a chip on our shoulder.
1:45.6	But the thing is, that doesn't help you get to the other side of it.
1:51.2	And I think that if we can really ask ourselves, say honestly, this is not like a woo-woo.
1:59.5	Like, just be positive.
2:34.3	It's telling yourself, this sucks. Honestly, this absolutely is not what I wanted to happen. But how can I make it the best thing? What am I not seeing about this situation? Right. Like, say you really wanted that promotion. That's all you wanted and you didn't get it. So now you're depressed. Like I put all this in for two years for this to happen and it didn't. But here's the thing. There might be something that you aren't seeing that made that the best thing ever. You know, sometimes that when it's like, thank God, that promotion didn't happen because it wouldn't have made me available for this other thing.
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