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The Rachel Cruze Show

Stop Feeling Behind While Scrolling Social Media (My Honest Advice)

The Rachel Cruze Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, you guys, it's warm outside. It's feeling great. I feel like summer is here. But also,

0:11.2

this is the time of year where the comparison trap is real. So we're going to talk about it,

0:16.0

how to recognize it, and to make sure that it doesn't sabotage your peace or your money.

0:22.3

But first, let's just have a little Come to Jesus moment. Okay, social media, you're going to see. You're going to be scrolling,

0:27.0

scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and you're going to see, you know, pictures full of people's,

0:31.5

you know, travel, days at the pool, running with their kids through fields, being out with

0:37.4

girls' night on a rooftop bar,

0:39.2

like whatever it is. Okay, you're going to see all the fun of people's lives this summer,

0:42.3

because it is fun. All of this is great. But please just remember, again, I'm just giving

0:45.9

you like what you know, but it's just the truth. We need to say it out loud over and over and over

0:49.8

again. You don't know the full picture. Okay, when you see someone's life, you're just seeing that one snapshot that they've chosen, by the way, to put out to the world.

1:01.1

So remember that.

1:01.8

And I'm not saying everyone's walking around being all fake and stuff.

1:04.0

It's not that.

1:05.0

It's just there is a curation happening, and we need to say it out loud.

1:08.8

And so what you're not seeing are, you know,

1:11.9

the fits that the kids are throwing. You're not seeing, you know, maybe the stress of like,

1:18.1

that girl's trying to figure out her outfit and she got frustrated and all this stuff in her

1:22.3

closet. Like, you don't see all these parts of people's lives. You're kind of just seeing that.

1:26.6

Just the best, just this

1:27.8

picture. So always give the person that you're seeing in that social post grace, give yourself

1:33.8

grace. And for me, one of the best ways to just practice contentment is to focus on what I am

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