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If you've ever messed up so badly that you feel that pretty much everybody in your life has been

disappointed by your decision or what you said, you're going to relate to this episode.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and

Danny we can have a really hard time letting go of mistakes from the past.

Colley this just happened to me the other day.

We waited in line for like 45 minutes at this pizza joint.

And my wife and I were looking at the menu and we decided what to get and

then she went and got a table. looking at the menu and we decided what to get and then she went and got a table.

And at the ordering point I made an audible.

I changed it up.

And I got to the table and I said, so I changed the order and she looked at me and she was supremely disappointed.

She was hungry and she had her mindset on this place. We were out of town.

So it was like, now or never to find out if it's really

that great and I thought about that for like 72 hours it took a long time for me to figure

just to let kind of let go of that. It wasn't even a big life mess up

but a lot of people have big life mess-ups. What do you say to the person who's feeling like

I've been carrying this burden and it's a lot bigger than a you

know a changed food order it's it's major and it's dogged me where do you go with that?

I remember a mom calling our counseling line several years back and she was

crying she was weeping on the phone and she said my son would be 16 years old

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