Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara.

And in today's episode, we're going to talk about assessing if something is worth your piece.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay. So if you've been a listener of this podcast or have followed my teachings over the years,

you know I'm not all about rainbows and unicorns, and let's just be totally

zend out all day long, always peaceful, this is the way to be. No, that's not my MO. I think the full

range of the human experience is important, and a lot of times we need to use things like stress or anger

to inform purposeful decisions. And with all of that said, there are also those moments when we

tend to overreact and it's worth us asking, is this worth my peace? Is the thing I'm getting upset about, the thing I'm trying to

change, the thing I'm getting angry about with this person and trying to make them do what I want,

is all of that worth my peace? I'll give you an example that prompted this episode. I was playing golf today,

and if you weren't aware, golf was once a very big part of my life, played competitively.

I love golf, and these days it's mostly recreational for me, and I enjoy sometimes playing alone and playing with

friends. And I'm pretty go with the flow when I'm out on the golf course, just loving, being out there,

going for a walk, playing the game, the sport, enjoying the fresh air. But there is one thing that tends to get on my nerves, and any fellow

golfers will probably resonate with this. And that is slow play. I get really frustrated when the

group in front of me is going slowly and getting in the way of my round and the pace that I want to play

at. And then most of the time on the course, people are respectful of this, but every once in a while

there's a group that's slower than usual. And that happened today. There was a slower group

in front of us, an older couple, and two new beginners. And early on and around,

it just started to get backed up. Right around the third hole, we made the turn, go to the third

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