37. How To Be Awesome at Not Drinking Poison
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Lindsay asks you to THINK about how you process things that happen to you. And be intentional about NOT DRINKING POISON when someone tries to hand it to you!!
It’s a game changer for your overall happiness!
She calls it poison because it is!!
Lindsay goes through how to deal with this ourselves, and how to teach our kids how to do this too!
This whole thing ALL goes back to what are you letting in your mind.
Together, we are putting ear plugs in when it comes to negativity or dream squashing! Don’t let it in!
Now listen, we all have to been self actualized and not block out something if someone we love is trying to help us and it's something we really need to pay attention to or work on changing or whatever…
But if it honest fall into this category its likely a WASTE of time!!
So that’s what we’re talking about today… first, realizing that when someone says something negative or hurtful for you… you have a choice with what you’re going to do with it. Are you going to digest it or not… and it completely changes the outcome of the interaction.
Thanks for listening!
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| 0:00.0 | The other day, my second grader, Presley, got in the car at carpool and was holding back tears. |
| 0:05.0 | She was so upset and she said, two first graders just yelled at me and called me a baby. |
| 0:09.8 | As any parent knows, seeing your child's feelings hurt is just the worst. |
| 0:13.8 | So I said, I'm so sorry that happened, Presley. |
| 0:16.3 | But here's the thing. |
| 0:17.4 | Did you drink the poison? |
| 0:18.9 | She's like, huh? |
| 0:19.9 | What? Now, she knows what I'm talking about because this is how I talk to them about dealing with certain things that come up in life. But in that moment, she's like, what are you talking about? So I explained. When they said that to you, it's like they're offering you a cup filled with poison. Picture a witch trying to hand you a boiling, hot, steaming pot of poison. |
| 0:39.0 | Are you going to drink it? She's like, no. So I told her, that's the same thing that happened here. |
| 0:44.9 | You can't control what they say to you, but you can control if you decide to digest it. So that's what |
| 0:51.5 | we're talking about today. First realizing that when someone says something negative |
| 0:55.1 | or hurtful to you, you have a choice with what you're going to do with it. Are you going to digest it or not? |
| 1:01.0 | And it completely changes the outcome of the interaction. Join me today as we train ourselves to not |
| 1:07.7 | drink the poison. Let's go. You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed |
| 1:15.2 | with life hacks that make your life more awesome. |
| 1:18.6 | Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, |
| 1:23.6 | and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. |
| 1:27.4 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documented and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. |
| 1:31.7 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to get to her kids one day. |
| 1:33.2 | And now it's a podcast. |
| 1:34.9 | Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. |
| 1:39.7 | Here's Lindsay. |
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