3794: Choosing Your Response by Angelina Lee of Exploring Plan Be on Emotional Awareness

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 7 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 3794: Angelina Lee reflects on the power of choosing intentional, peaceful responses to life’s emotional chaos, drawing from her husband’s grounded approach to adversity. Her insights reveal how shifting from reactive patterns to mindful decisions can cultivate inner peace, healthier relationships, and a more purpose-driven life. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://exploringplanbe.com/choosing-your-response/ Quotes to ponder: “Choose to hold on to hope as if your future depends on it. Because it does.” “Choose to see the good in the little, seemingly insignificant happenings in your life.” “Choose to know that you are enough, just as you are, regardless of what you do, or what you have left undone.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7	This is Optimal Living Daily.
0:32.8	Choosing Your Response by Angelina Lee of Exploring Plan B.com, and I'm Justemolic, your personal narrator,
0:40.1	reading to you every day, including holidays, usually from blogs, sometimes from books. So for now,
0:45.6	let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:52.6	Choosing Your Response by Angelina Lee of Exploring Plan B.com.
0:58.5	When I grew up, I want to be just like my husband. For years, I've said this jokingly. I've always
1:04.0	admired his seemingly innate ability to be at peace, no matter what he faces in life. Although I
1:09.5	admired it, I neither understood nor fully appreciated it.
1:13.7	If I'm honest, his ability to remain cool-headed at all times used to irritate me to my core.
1:18.9	I'd accuse him of not being passionate about anything, all the while working myself up into a bigger frenzy.
1:25.0	It wasn't until my own over-committed schedule and constant agitation caused me
1:29.3	to halt, reassess my life and journey inward in order to cultivate a more meaningful and
1:34.5	intentional existence that I started to understand my husband's perspective. Things didn't rile him up
1:40.2	because he chose not to let them. He gives nothing power over his emotions. Disappointments and
1:46.2	disagreements didn't affect his psyche because he chose not to allow them to. It wasn't that he was not
1:51.6	passionate about anything, as I had assumed. On the contrary, he was passionate about peace of mind
1:57.2	and about living life fully, yet simply. What I chalked up to be a difference in personality
2:02.7	was in reality, a difference in priority and intention. As I studied this, I realized that
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