Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 85th episode of the simple Sophisticate. I hope your weekend went well and

we're going to start February off in a really great way.

We're going to provide some reassurance today.

You hopefully are going strong into this new year

and we're looking at that second month.

Well, many times on the blog here I have compared the

struggle of a butterfly that they must traverse to the journey that we embark on when

we seek to live a life of our dreams And I'll share a handful of those posts

from the archives on today's show notes.

But just as important is it is for us to understand

the struggle to break free from a cocoon,

to understand that we're going to have to have tough times to get to where we want to go,

there is also an importance for the cocoon. And that cocoon is what I want to talk about today.

We're going to talk about why it's important to trust the timing of your life.

Just as pasta must be cooked for a particular amount of time to offer the ideal al dente experience to pair perfectly with the

sauce that you've made, or just as it is best for the health of a newborn to remain in the

womb of its mother the full length of the

gestation period. Timing is important. Timing makes a difference. If you allow a

steak to remain on the grill for merely two minutes more, it can go from

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