Welcome back to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast. Today we are talking about having good reactions. Reactions to questions people ask you or gifts people give you or shade people throw your way. Judgment, unexpected events, whatever it is, I've really learned that if you program your mind, you can make sure you have a good reaction every time.

So today we're talking about how to be awesome at having good reactions. Let's go.

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life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur

and business owner, a mom and wife,

and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept started as a collection

of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to give to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast.

Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do.

Here's Lindsay. Oh my gosh, if you would have told me 10 years ago that I was even beginning

to give tips on this, I would have died laughing just because I used to not have great reactions,

like at all. I always had good intentions. I just didn't always express myself in the right way,

quick to react, say the first thing that comes to mind rather than even process the answer.

But now, even if I knowed something is a hard no for me, not just saying my first reaction,

like, are you kidding me? No effing way. But more like, okay, let's think about how that could work or something like that. There is this story that Craig loves to tell. One year on my birthday, he surprised me with a new escalate. I had a terrible, in caps, terrible reaction. Not because I was ungrateful or anything at all like that,

just because I was completely confused. My lease was up on my current escalade, and we had talked about

turning it in for a new one soon. Not like I wasn't grateful in any way. That was just sort of the next

step. Lease is up, traded in for the same thing but newer, loved my car, easy and done.

So you can see why I was confused after a skinny margarita, or three, at Javier's Irvine

Spectrum. He had it waiting in the ballet, and I'm telling you, he felt like a king, bringing in

this big gift, and I was just like, huh? You got me the car to replace my car that we've been talking about.

And he was like, you're kidding, right?

You realize how snotty you sound.

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