Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Are you somebody who lays everything out, all the details, you know how it's going to unfold and that makes you feel safe?

And then you get going, you get on the path that you're on and you're like, oh boy,

I could not have prepared for this. I could not have anticipated that so much was thrown my way

and it completely messed up. My perfectly laid plans and my strategy. I've got to tell you,

I've seen so many people do this over the years. They get their feathers really, really ruffled when something goes wrong, when there's a tech issue, when there's a delay, when someone doesn't do what they say they're going to do. And then I think, oh my gosh, what's more important than the perfect strategy or the perfectly laid plan is resilience. Is your grit? There's a great book called Grip by Angela Duckworth, and she says

the most important thing, the through line for successful high school teachers in tough neighborhoods,

for Navy SEALs, for top salespeople, is that they put more emphasis and focus on grit, on resilience, on bouncing back than on anything else.

And I have a fable to illustrate this for you today. It's called the one-eyed dough.

A dough, blind of an eye, was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could,

in the hope of securing her greater safety.

She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach

of hunter or hound, and her injured eye turned towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.

Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her.

Yielding up her breath, she gasped forth this lament.

Oh, wretched creature that I am, to take such precaution against the land,

and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come to for safety, so much more perilous.

So there's one eye dough going as close to the edge of a cliff as possible as thinking,

on land, these are all the

threat, so I'll put my eye there and I'll put my blind eye towards the sea because nothing bad

can happen from over there. My friends, this is what happens whenever we take any action.

We can plan and perfect it and make it as good as possible, as safe and sound as possible,

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