Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Pick a lane, my friend.

Pick a lane, my friend.

Pick a lane, my friend. This is something that I love to share with someone who comes to me,

who's maybe worrying about something that's coming up or anticipating something important that's maybe

you're showing up this week for them on their calendar

and they have mixed feelings about it.

Often we tend to worry and of course and feel stress when something meaningful is happening in our lives.

And if you haven't checked out Dr Kelly McGonigal's interview with me on the podcast, please do.

It's called the upside of, and she breaks down specifically how stress

and meaning are linked. So when we experience stress, it's not necessarily a chance to

start freaking out about the stress itself,

but to acknowledge that something meaningful is happening.

But a friend of mine reached out to me recently because she's really nervous about something big that she has coming up.

She's been planning for about something big that she has coming up.

She's been planning for it for over a year, and she's worrying about all the small things that can go wrong.

Sound familiar?

Anybody? This can be if it's a wedding, it can be if it's a work event, it can be if it's a wedding it can be if it's a work event it can be if it's a social event

whatever it may be we often worry and anticipate a lot of things going wrong in the

future when something is meaningful to us. Now this is what I say to others and to

myself when something is coming up that is making me feel on one hand excited and full of anticipation and eagerness and

enthusiasm and on the other hand making me feel nervous, worried, inadequate, and holy heck, let me really start panicking because I'm not

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