Overcoming Destination Anxiety
Pepp Talk Podcast
Breeny Lee
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Married by 25, kids by 27, dream career by 29, why do we limit our dreams to a time frame and get angry when it doesn't happen? Who made up these time frames anyway? Who told you 25 was old, who told you that 30 was the deadline? Many of us suffer from destination anxiety and it causes us to despise the journey, when the truth is, all the fun is in the climbing and not at the top of the mountain, lets talk about how we can still keep hoping and dreaming in 2022 without being depressed in the interim.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's your girl Breene Lee and welcome to the pep talk podcast where we have real, raw, relatable conversations with the pep talk you need. |
| 0:15.0 | You have the power to create your future with the choices that you made today. |
| 0:19.5 | What do you bring to the table? Baby, I am the table. |
| 0:22.5 | Fuck yourself a little bit more than that, ladies. Come on. Dust settles, queens don't. And don't forget, |
| 0:28.3 | know your worth and then attacks. Period. Okay, so the tweet in question was by a Twitter user called Raking and she said, |
| 0:40.3 | I think the reason why I'm so disappointed in myself is because I created this perfect plan for my life. |
| 0:47.3 | I, working my dream job, married at 24, buy a house, kids at 25 and live happily ever after and not one of those things I can |
| 0:56.5 | tick off my list at this current age of 27. When I saw the tweet I always rolled my eyes. |
| 1:02.7 | She's like, I didn't get it by 25 but I'm only 27, only two years. Meanwhile, I've been in a |
| 1:06.5 | pandemic for two years. But anyway, I can relate because a few years ago I actually made the video. |
| 1:11.3 | Actually, how long? Probably five years ago now, I made a video talking about my quarter life |
| 1:17.2 | crisis. I was getting in a crisis at 25 as well. I was like, shoot, oh my God, I'm going to be |
| 1:22.9 | 25. I don't have everything that I want. Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. And I got a lot of traction and I find that a lot of people relate to this tweet. |
| 1:31.7 | And it's a thought pattern that thinks that you have to have everything sorted out by 25. |
| 1:37.3 | Like, why is 25 such the hallmark of success? |
| 1:43.3 | I kind of want to delve into where this lie kind of came from, |
| 1:46.8 | this kind of standard came from. |
| 1:48.8 | One of the reasons is, |
| 1:50.1 | is because when you were younger, |
| 1:52.0 | we had so many fantasies of when I grow up, |
| 1:55.0 | I want to be this, |
| 1:55.9 | I want to do this. |
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