553. What to Do When It's Not Working
Better Than Happy
Jody Moore
4.8 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
When you're doing everything you're "supposed" to do and it's still not working… what then?
Whether it's your marriage, your parenting, your business, or your health goals, there comes a point where the strategies you're trying don't seem to be producing the results you expected. And in that moment, your brain wants to tell you something has gone wrong. Maybe it won't work for you. Maybe you're not cut out for this. Maybe you should just quit.
Join me this week as I walk you through what's actually happening when it feels like nothing is working. I explain the natural stages of growth, why the uncomfortable "river of misery" phase is not a sign that you're failing, but a normal and necessary part of becoming competent at anything meaningful, and three powerful tools to help you keep going without unnecessary suffering.
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| 0:00.0 | I noticed that when people are doing all the things they think they're supposed to do, they're |
| 0:05.3 | taking the actions that they think are going to lead to the results they want. Maybe this is in |
| 0:09.7 | your relationships. It's how you're parenting your kids. It's how you're interacting with your |
| 0:13.7 | spouse. It's in your business. All the strategies you're executing, the advice you're following. |
| 0:18.5 | It might be with your health goals. It might be in any area. When you're doing those things and you're not getting the advice you're following. It might be with your health goals. It might be in any |
| 0:20.9 | area. When you're doing those things and you're not getting the results in the timeline you thought |
| 0:26.0 | you were going to, do you believe that that means there's something wrong with you or that this |
| 0:32.5 | just won't work for you? Or do you stop and acknowledge, oh yeah, this is how it goes for everyone? Things never |
| 0:39.9 | work exactly the same in the same timeline for people. Everybody has ups and downs. The difference |
| 0:46.5 | between people who succeed and people who quit or walk away or fail is that the successful ones |
| 0:53.6 | have tools and strategies for moving |
| 0:56.5 | through the times when it's not working, for keeping going and getting eventually the results |
| 1:02.9 | that they want. People who don't simply don't have the tools or the bandwidth to stick with it. |
| 1:09.4 | Today I'm going to give you three tools that will |
| 1:12.3 | help you keep going when it feels like it's just not working. Let's go. Welcome to Better Than Happy, |
| 1:21.3 | the podcast where we transform our lives by transforming ourselves. My name is Jody Moore. In the decade plus I've been working with |
| 1:30.5 | clients as a master certified coach, I've helped tens of thousands of people to become empowered. |
| 1:36.9 | And from empowered, the things that seemed hard become trivial. And the things that seemed impossible |
| 1:43.1 | become available. And suddenly a whole new world |
| 1:47.1 | of desire and possibility open up to you. And what do you do with that? Well, that's the question. |
| 1:56.0 | What will you do? Let's find out. Sometimes listening to a podcast is enough, but sometimes you'll feel |
| 2:05.7 | inspired to go deeper. If you hear things that speak to you in today's episode, consider it your |
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