Ep 254: How to Fail Productively
Thinner Peace in Menopause
Dr. Deb Butler
4.7 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I explain the difference between productive and unproductive failure and share how to view the actions you take that make you unhappy in a more helpful way. I'm sharing why getting curious, not furious, is the key to failing productively and how knowing this will enable you to stop beating yourself up once and for all.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond with Dr. Depp Butler. |
| 0:04.2 | This is episode number 254. |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. |
| 0:14.1 | This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always, your coach. |
| 0:20.8 | If you're a woman and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling with weight your |
| 0:26.7 | whole life and now menopause is making it harder than ever, and you are ready to make this |
| 0:33.8 | the last time you ever have to go on a diet again, then this podcast is for you. Stay tuned. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi all my dear friends. How are you today? I am looking outside in my beautiful woods and it is |
| 0:51.8 | snowing and it is beautiful. I'm looking forward to it. I love looking at it and I love |
| 0:57.8 | walking in it. Don't love driving in it. So I'm really happy to be sitting here with you talking. |
| 1:04.0 | And I've got some really interesting things that I'd like to talk to you about failure because |
| 1:08.6 | one of the things that I notice the most from my clients |
| 1:13.8 | and from the people that I talk to in many sessions is what you make it mean when you see |
| 1:20.4 | yourself doing something you wish you weren't doing or when you see yourself doing something |
| 1:25.4 | that you told yourself that you weren't going to do or when you see yourself doing something and you told yourself that you weren't going to do, |
| 1:28.0 | or when you see yourself doing something and you're not doing it the right way. |
| 1:32.2 | All of those things are really up for becoming curious and not furious. |
| 1:39.4 | And the reason that I say this, I think it's the best thing I've ever heard, |
| 1:43.5 | is to become curious, |
| 1:45.0 | not furious. |
| 1:46.3 | So this was from my last podcast when I did it with my client, Michelle, and she came up with |
| 1:51.8 | that phrase, be curious, not furious. |
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