Welcome to the Black Girl Burnup podcast, Kelly here.

And today we are going to kick off a week-long discussion about really patience and resilience and how to cultivate patience and resilience in good times and in bad.

Both are needed no matter where you are at any given moment. Today's episode is going to focus on

exploring the question that I've seen a lot. It's very popular on social media. It's inspired some

incredible reels and TikToks. And some are humorous. Some are inspiring. And that question is,

can we skip to the good part? Today's episode is all about me making a case for why we shouldn't skip to the good part and what we

learn along the way when we don't fast forward to the best outcome or the happy ending.

This is not me criticizing wanting more joy in your life, wanting happy endings. But the nature of the

skip to the good part is wherever you are at the present moment is not where you want to be.

And so we all have that feeling of yes, please, can we skip to the good part? Can we skip past

all of this nonsense, all of this struggle,

all of this complications, or just all of this time? I remember as a kid wanting to skip to the

good part to being an adult in my mind. I thought, can I just get through this part here,

this teenage years? and then the good

stuff will finally happen when I'm an adult. And if only I could go back to young Kelly and tell

her, girl, no. Because when I became an adult, a young adult, I started thinking, can I skip to the

good part where I'm already in the

career I want? I already have the children I wanted and have the partner I want. Can I just go

ahead and skip there? And the thing about that mentality when you're stuck in it, not when you

occasionally dip into it, but when you start cultivating a

lifestyle of wanting to skip to the good part is you miss out on things. And we're going to talk

about what you miss out on when you skip to the good part as a way to anchor into the conversation

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