Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Hello, my friend.

How are you today? How I love recording these episodes for you? I just sat down to record a few this morning and I thought

What a privilege isn't it that we live in an age where I can sit in my apartment in Miami and reach people all over the world with a microphone and an internet connection.

Wow, what would our ancestors have thought of that?

It is so easy to just take your life for granted day by day,

all of the blessings we have, all of the conveniences, all of the, frankly,

magic we have in 2023. I don't want it to just be my normal I want it to be something that I appreciate and

this is actually something that I wanted to speak to you about today which was

about are you appreciating even the mundane things? Are you appreciating even the things that

That are like yeah obvious we all have that everyone has electricity everyone has you know clean water coming from the tap everybody has everybody has

so what number one if everyone you know has a shelter has access to basic resources has Wi-Fi that's a wonderful thing that is a

wonderful thing and it's not true for everybody in fact. This we forget. There's something in the coaching world which is called

Hordonic adaptation and what that simply means when I when I learned about this it was about 10 years ago. I read about it the first time from the book The Myths of Happiness by Sonia Lumbiorsky. I hope that's how you say her last name. Please correct me if I'm wrong Sonia Sonia, or anybody. But she read a great book called The

Myths of Happiness. And when I learned about her Donic adaptation, I was like, whoa, this is so interesting. I'm so thrilled to use this as a tool in my coaching by

understanding the mind more deeply and what I don't like adaptation basically means

is we get used to new circumstances, good or bad, way sooner than

we think we will.

And changes that we either fear or changes we get really excited about make us overall less happy or less

sad than we think they will. For example, she quotes, I mean,

and I've done lots of research now,

so I'm not sure exactly the sources for these studies,

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