Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Have you ever noticed that every situation in life has an upside and a downside?

Some people call this the shadow or just the disadvantage of really any situation or choice that you have to make. And I find this

really interesting. I learned from someone years ago that it's great to write an upside downside list,

especially if you're not sure about moving into a new situation, or if you're not sure about

maybe wanting to give something up in your life or go in a new direction.

But what I want to talk about today is the fact that the upside downside is going to be true in any

situation. But I think that we get ourselves into a bit of a kerfuffle when we think there should be

no downside. Maybe things are going really well in certain

life areas, but we focus on the downside and we calculate in our minds that things aren't as good

as they actually are. Okay, so what are some examples here? Maybe you've gotten out of a relationship. And so the upside of

that would be freedom. It's really going to be all about you, at least for a while, how you want to

spend a day, how you want to spend a weekend, not having to check in with anybody. You might say yes to

freedom, but you also might experience

some loneliness. I know this is true too for people who decide to leave jobs and go into their

own full-time businesses. They might not have employees yet or teammates. So they might say yes to

freedom from maybe a nine to five and the structure of that.

But you also might feel lonely, perhaps, at home or working from your co-working space or that

cafe. Or maybe if there's a promotion that you've been working towards or some new big business

goal, on your path to getting there,

you are much busier. You have a lot more going on. Your weekends are full. So you might be welcoming

more in terms of abundance or influence. But yeah, there's going to be perhaps a bit more stress. Maybe it's good by weekends.

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