This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?

Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day. The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful, and so are you, dear Prudence.

Won't you come out to play?

That is just one of my favorite songs of all time.

Dear Prudence, of course, recorded originally by the Beatles.

That particular version is performed by a really talented local Denver artist by the name of

Mike Mass with an E on the end, M-A-S-S-E.

He has a website, micmas.com, and he does all kinds of cool stuff.

So you should definitely check out more of his things.

And if you ever like to hear that song again, you can call growing self and talk to Erica,

first of all, who is a gem. And then if you're lucky enough to get put on hold, like if she's

transferring your call or something, we have the privilege of using Mike's lovely song as our

hold music. So thank you, Mike.

And thank you for enjoying this beautiful song with me because it's good stuff.

And so that is our segue into our topic today because we are talking about how to be engaged with a world as yourself, as authentically as is your truth and with a world as it is.

And practicing, I think, new for some of us but very important

life skill of radical acceptance and I am very deliberately posting this particular podcast for

you on the the week after the turn of the year because

how much of the time are you know this time of year it's like okay this year I'm going to make

all these changes I'm going to go to the gym I'm going to starve myself I'm going to make

myself do X Y Z and it. And it's like, so exhausting. We also know from

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