Welcome to let it be easy with Susie Moore.

Do you consider yourself to be an optimist or perhaps more of a pessimist?

What I've learned is that very few people identify with being a pessimist, but look it comes up and sometimes in life especially when we go through

challenges different seasons even just experiencing a low mood but has what can feel like a bit of an extended time frame on it, we can all

lean into this pessimistic part of ourselves.

And that's okay, right?

If there's anything that we know after a few years on planet Earth,

it's that life changes, emotions come and go,

different life situations come and go. And maybe you're experiencing something right now that leaves you to

feel not so great that allows you to maybe be hard on yourself or maybe you feel

stuck or underappreciated or you feel uncertain about what's next.

I recently re-read the book Learned Optimism by Seligman.

And I really enjoyed it.

It's an old book.

It's really fun going back and re-reading old books, looking at your old highlights, if you're

anything like me.

And I want to just give you an example of the A, B, C, D,

method that he uses, which allows us to come back to a state of optimism which allows us to make better, more empowered choices.

I think it's always easier to demonstrate this with an example. So here is a potential example. You can apply this to anything in your life, but here's how the ABC-D-E method works.

Okay, say you're at work and your co-worker is acknowledged by the boss for doing a great job and it can

lead you to feel inadequate and maybe not so motivated, maybe even a little jealous.

The A here is for adversity, right?

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