Don't Take The Bait

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Have you ever felt the sting when someone's words cut a little too deep? I know that feeling all too well, and in this episode, we explore the liberating practice of not taking offense, a topic I dive into in my book "Stop Checking Your Likes." It's about how you can step into the new year, shedding the weight of others' judgments and finding resilience and joy in the simplicity of letting go. As your guide, I'll share how becoming "unoffendable" is akin to sidestepping the bait that others...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:07.0	Do you want to enter the new year as an optimized version of you?
0:16.0	If so, I have a suggestion. Try it on. See how it feels.
0:21.0	See if this fits for you. I've never ever regretted doing this when it comes to
0:28.3	anything, whether it comes to family, whether it comes to strangers on the internet, whatever it may be, this has always made my life better.
0:37.0	And I write about it a lot actually in my book, Stop Checking Your Likes.
0:41.0	If you connect with this episode episode definitely check out this book.
0:45.0	Stop checking your likes available everywhere books are sold. But here it is
0:50.9	my friends. It's set down offense. Don't be easily offended. In the book stop checking your likes I shared that the word offense by some
1:09.6	translations has a Greek origin meaning bait. As in when you take offense you're actually taking the bait.
1:19.4	Someone is baiting you and you are biting. I am not interested in taking the bait. So whether it's someone
1:27.9	leaving me a mean review or saying something unkind about me, I allow them.
1:34.7	I am not offended.
1:37.8	I think about it this way.
1:38.8	If someone is doing something that I don't consider fair or reasonable or nice, I am not going to take a hammer and hit
1:45.9	myself over the head with it, punishing myself by being offended.
1:49.6	If someone takes an action that I don't maybe love, then that action belongs to that person.
1:55.0	It has nothing to do with me.
1:56.7	I'm not going to come over here and just start punishing myself, right, literally hitting
2:00.9	myself with a hammer over the head by trying to respond trying to
2:04.8	defend myself trying to set that person straight no you know I saw this meme a long time ago on social media it said you find it offensive I find it funny
2:16.4	That's why I'm happier than you I mean
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