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Calm it Down

Make Your Moments Matter

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Think about a day last week. Any day. What was your favorite day from last week? During the noise and the chaos of those seven days was there a moment that made you pause and smile? A bike ride or your favorite ice cream. Maybe something more significant like having a child or finally hitting that career achievement.   Our days are so intense, so consuming we’re exhausted before we put our feet on the floor each morning. It’s understandable all we see before us every morning are obstacles and set-backs. But when we make a habit to reflect on the things to be thankful for, to bring to mind those experiences both now and in the past, from the people who love you, to the roof over your head and the food on your table, you will come to see it’s a pretty long list of moments that truly matter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What was your favorite part of yesterday?

0:08.2

Take a moment and think back.

0:10.5

I can barely recall what I did a few hours ago, much less a whole day ago.

0:16.1

But take a moment and think about yesterday.

0:20.0

It doesn't have to be anything crazy like saving a child from falling into the Grand Canyon

0:25.1

or rescuing a cat from a tree, just something that brought you even the simplest of smiles.

0:32.6

For instance, last night as I began writing this episode, I opened the laptop and sat next to a beautiful

0:40.0

bowl of cherries. What a treat, I said to myself when I found them in the fridge. Something simple

0:47.1

that brought me a moment of delight. What was your favorite part about yesterday? And the way it's so cliche and i would be remiss if i did not

1:00.6

take the opportunity to say it at a time like this but life is not always a bowl of cherries

1:07.8

there it's out of my system thank Thank you. But it's true. When we look back

1:14.9

at yesterday, or last week for that matter, we have a tendency to think I'm worthless. Another

1:23.7

month, another year, and I haven't accomplished a single thing.

1:28.2

I'm useless.

1:30.6

We say to ourselves as the mind trap of self-pity perpetuates.

1:35.5

I really don't amount to anything.

1:38.7

But I would like to push back on that just a bit.

1:42.3

Your days, your weeks, your months aren't as meaningless as we allow

1:48.0

our mind to believe. Remember, we are not our thoughts. Just because we think something

1:56.0

does not mean you have to follow through with that thought. And today I'm not only going to show you why you're more than what you think you are,

2:07.6

but what you can do each week to inspire your tomorrows by one simple, scientifically proven technique.

2:21.3

It's so simple, you'll wonder why you haven't been doing it all along.

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