3314: How Can We Have Faith When Things Don't Look Good In The Moment by Allison Carmen on Overcoming Anxiety

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🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3314: Allison Carmen explores how to cultivate faith during challenging times by introducing the concept of "Maybe." When fear and past experiences cloud our vision of the future, embracing the possibility that things might turn out differently can help open us to new opportunities. This approach allowed her friend Ben to transform his anxiety into hope, ultimately finding success in unexpected places. Read along with the original article(s) here: http://www.allisoncarmen.com/how-can-we-have-faith-when-things-dont-look-good-in-the-moment/ Quotes to ponder: "Faith doesn’t create our reality according to our fears and desires; it gives us the ability to move forward without judging the future." "Maybe enables us to question our beliefs and open our hearts to experience space and light in the midst of a crisis." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is optimal living daily. How can we have faith when things don't look good in the moment?
0:06.8	By Allison Carmen of Allison Carmen.com, and I'm just a molecule personal narrator
0:12.1	reading to you every single day of the year
0:14.4	with permission from the authors. It's kind of like an audiobook but kind of not.
0:18.7	Hopefully you find it better than an audiobook that would be a huge compliment.
0:22.4	Anyway let's get right to it as we optimize your life. better than an audiobook, that would be a huge compliment.
0:22.6	Anyway, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:26.5	How can we have faith when things don't look good in the moment?
0:33.4	By Allison Carmen of Allison Carmen.com.
0:37.8	A few months ago I spoke to an old friend named Ben who has been struggling with his business. He owns a computer consulting firm and has
0:44.8	lost many of his big clients over the last year to bigger consulting firms. He must have
0:50.0	told me at least ten times how the computer consulting business has changed. He then told me he is a
0:55.5	dinosaur in his industry and is just waiting for the month that he can't pay his rent.
1:00.5	No matter what I asked or suggested to him about pursuing new opportunities or
1:05.4	technologies, there was a reason he gave me that it would not work out.
1:09.9	After speaking for 30 minutes, Ben said to me,
1:13.0	I wish I could have more faith that things will work out, but I don't.
1:18.0	Ben has definitely encountered some bumps in the road the past year
1:21.0	and is seeing his lack of success today as foretelling the worst for his future.
1:26.0	All of his past experience has created a belief that things won't change and will likely keep
1:30.4	getting worse.
1:32.0	How can Ben find hope and opportunity when he has no faith and his
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