Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

Hey, everybody.

This week's For The Good of the Order comes from my friends at the Greater Good Science

Center.

They had rounded up the top 10 insights from the science of a meaningful life in 2022.

And there's just one that I wanted to talk about today because it goes to this larger thing

that I think about often, which is the role of expectations in how we experience life.

And what I might call misreading the signals.

So the insight that Greater Good pointed out was that leaning into uncomfortable feelings

could help us achieve bigger life goals, which, you know, maybe sounds familiar to you.

But the nugget in this for me was that you should expect that things will be hard.

You might feel awkward or fearful or deeply uncomfortable.

And if you interpret that emotional state as being a signal that you're doing the wrong

thing or you're moving the wrong direction, you might stop.

But if your expectation is that discomfort is related to growth or even better that

discomfort is a sign of growth, then your interpretation of fear and awkwardness and

even anxiety might change.

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