Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Hello my friend. This episode is called Get Out Your suitcase and other happiness triggers.

Why do I say get out your suitcase?

Okay, so at the time of recording this, I'm a couple of days away from heading on vacation.

I'm going to be seeing my sister in France, my husband and I are going for, it's three weeks I believe we're

heading out for, and I want to ask you this, when do you guess I took out my suitcase?

With a couple of days to go, right, some people are real last minute packers, I get it,

this isn't just about travel and suitcases specifically.

But I want to tell you that I've had my suitcase out and

open for two weeks. I've even tripped over a couple of times annoyingly. Why is that? Well, my friends,

it's proven that the anticipation, the eagerness, the enthusiasm we feel before good things or happy things or very satisfying things happening, the feelings that we can experience ahead of time

can be just as enjoyable, if not more enjoyable,

than the experience itself.

So as I even trip over my suitcase, I walk past it right,

like one time I'm holding coffee, I'm like,

oop, there it is.

I'm reminded of this upcoming trip. I'm reminded of the fact that I'm

going to be seeing my sister. I'm reminded of the fact that we're going to have this

break going to this country that I love and I start to feel it,

visualize it, taste it, almost.

The point of today's episode is this. Where are you maybe holding back experiencing

some joy because you don't allow yourself to enjoy it until it's exactly in the

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