Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I would like to let you in on a little secret that I think if we are slightly more conscious of and if we welcome it and allow it in,

it will allow us to retain our steadiness even amongst life's big ups and downs.

There are good days or bad days, there are good things that happen,

there are things that happen that we really don't want to happen. There are disappointments. There is suffering. There is stress, right? We know that life is a full rich experience, right?

That's why we don't need to fear negative emotion so much.

It's part of the human experience,

and there's no avoiding it.

But you know what I used to do, I don't do anymore that has made such a big difference in terms of the steadiness that I feel, even when in fact, especially when things are going wrong. Just say even in my tech career

something went wrong or I got a disappointing result I'd start going oh I'm not good

at this I suck at this my value isn't as high as it was last month

when everything was going right. Or just say that I'm like thriving somehow, maybe even meeting

lots of people and lots of cool new friends,

and there's like a whirlwind of cool fun activity, and I just feel like, oh, I feel so alive and

like vibrant, and I just feel, oh, like I'm just really living right right now and then just say that there's a

slump or I notice even people socializing or getting together without me. I can start

to think, oh well you know a couple months ago when I was doing all that cool fun social stuff

I felt really valued and important and now when I see people getting together and I'm not there

I feel less important somehow.

The truth in life is that there is no race, there is no ahead or behind, right?

Circumstances, situations, they're always changing. And in life look you won't always

be number one. You won't always be getting the gold medal or winning the contest or always being the most in demand or

...