Cy Wakeman: …things don’t have to be perfect for you to be content

Nobody Told Me!

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4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we’ll explore how a simple shift in thinking can change everything you believe about your own happiness. We’ll look at how a different perspective can enable us to live happily when life isn’t perfect.

Wherever you are in life, I think you’ll benefit from hearing the wisdom of our guest. Joining us is New York Times bestselling author Cy Wakeman, whose new book is called, “Life’s Messy, Live Happy: Things Don’t Have to be Perfect for You to be Content.”

To find out more about Cy, visit her website at realitybasedleadership.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.6	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:13.9	On this episode, we'll explore how a simple shift in thinking can change everything
0:18.6	you believe about your own happiness.
0:21.9	We'll look at how a different perspective can enable us to live happily when life isn't perfect. And wherever you are in
0:27.8	life, I think you'll benefit from hearing the wisdom of our guest. Joining us is New York Times
0:32.5	bestselling author, Cy Wakeman, whose new book is called Life's Messy, Live Happy. Things don't have to be
0:39.4	perfect for you to be content. So I thank you so much for joining us. We absolutely love the book.
0:45.3	Oh, I'm so glad. And thank you for the opportunity. Now, you are a leadership consultant and
0:51.1	a drama researcher. Tell us more about your work. I started life as a counselor,
0:56.4	and as I became a leader, what I noticed was there was an enormous amount of waste in the
1:02.7	workplace and that that waste wasn't kind of downtime in a process. It was emotional waste or
1:10.1	drama. And we were looking for all kinds of
1:13.2	ways that we could improve the experience of our patients and our work. And I got really focused on
1:19.4	what if we could diffuse or eliminate the drama in our lives, that part that was just pure
1:26.8	waste that we added to already difficult situations,
1:30.7	what would that save us? And I was able, through my research, to quantify that the average
1:35.7	person spends two and a half hours a day, 816 hours a year in drama, doing work harder or with more mystery than necessary. So I thought,
1:49.1	what freedom to bring the world is to help people understand how to move through the world
1:53.9	differently so that they had less drama and less stress and less misery. It's been a fun
1:59.9	ride in terms of leadership development.
2:03.6	It's really easy to be happy and have a good outlook when things are going well.
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