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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

972: When This Moment is Enough by Allison Carmen

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Allison Carmen shares why it's important to remember that this moment is enough. Episode 972: When This Moment is Enough by Allison Carmen (Finding Peace in Chaos & Choosing to Be Happy & Live Mindfully). Allison Carmen holds a B.A. in accounting, a J.D. of Law, and a Master’s of Law in taxation. After working for a large law firm in Manhattan, Allison founded her own law firm and built a successful practice focusing on real estate, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation. After 15 years of practicing law, Allison transitioned her practice into business consulting, business coaching and life coaching. Today, Allison’s clients range from owners of multi-million dollar companies to artists, actors, writers, and parents. She's also the host of the podcast: 10 Minutes to Less Suffering. The original post is located here: http://www.allisoncarmen.com/2017/11/20/when-this-moment-is-enough Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 972.

0:03.9

When this moment is enough, by Allison Carman of AllisonCarman.com, and I'm just a

0:09.3

mall at your personal narrator reading blogs to you mostly, but sometimes books.

0:13.7

Anything I think will help you optimize your life, stays post-being from Allison Carman.

0:18.0

Let's get right to it, as we optimize your life.

0:25.6

When this moment is enough, by AllisonCarman of AllisonCarman.com, quote,

0:32.6

the seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering

0:37.7

before allowing yourself to be happy.

0:40.1

Even while you have pain in your heart, you can enjoy the many wonders of life, the beautiful

0:44.7

sunset, the smile of a child, the many flowers and trees.

0:49.5

To suffer is not enough.

0:52.0

To it is the monk, Ticknought Han.

0:54.0

It was November 3rd, 2014, the night before I was to launch my first book, The Gift of

0:59.0

Maybe, at a Barnes and Noble Bookstore in New York City, and I was suffering.

1:04.8

My agent had called me a few weeks ago.

1:07.2

She's a lovely woman and has always been supportive, but was she told me on that call, sent

1:11.6

me into a tailspin.

1:12.9

Allison, she said, if you don't sell 25,000 copies of this book, you're not going to get

1:18.5

a book deal for your second book.

1:21.1

Now my second book was even completed yet, and my first wasn't officially launched.

1:25.2

It had been a dream come true to publish with Penguin Random House.

1:28.2

I had been able to change careers, leaving my first profession behind for when I truly

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