Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Have you ever heard of the term Apollyanna?

It never means anything good.

It is a criticism.

It means that someone is almost embarrassingly positive, over the top, naive. And we look

down on these people. They'll say, oh, she's such a Pollyanna or that's such a Pollyanna way of

looking at a situation. But what a lot of people don't know is that Pollyanna had a really

hard life. She had a lot of loss, a lot of

disappointment, but no matter what, she played something called the glad game, meaning she

look around in any situation, however miserable, and say, what can I still be glad about?

What can I still be glad about? Okay, maybe you lost your job.

Do you still have healthy kids? Maybe you had a bad health report. Do you still have the most committed, incredible spouse in the world? Maybe this, so this. No matter what is going wrong around you,

what can you still be glad about? Because the brain, your brain, is taking instructions from you.

Good questions, good answers, bad questions, a miserable life. Let me tell you some of the questions

that we tend to ask ourselves. Why isn't anything

working? Why am I so stressed out? Why is this so hard? What if nothing happens? What if I do all

this work and it doesn't work out? My friends, bad questions, no wonder you feel miserable.

What if your questions were? What is working?

Who can I ask for help? Where's proof that this thing is possible for me, aka what do I still

have to be glad about? So someone like Pollyanna or anyone who's optimistic, they're not born with this

personality traits. This is a trained perception. Anyone can do it in any situation. And I assure you,

no matter what the situation is, there is still always something to be glad about. And when you

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