Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, my friend, I'm really on an Aesop's fables role this week.

And I read this one last night and I was like, oh, that's what I'm going to be doing my

pot on in the morning.

Because, oh my gosh, once again, this book was written to in the just show us that things change and they don't change, right? Ancient wisdom is

modern wisdom. What do we do with it? Ah, gorgeous. Here is the very short fable and I want to pose a couple of questions to you after reading it.

It's called the Kites and the Swans.

And Kites are a form of bird, by the way. I look that up. But here you go. The kites of all time had equally with the swans, the privilege of song.

But having heard the nay of the horse,

they were so enchanted with the sound that they tried to imitate it.

And in trying to nay, they heard. they forgot how to sing. The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

Oh, would you think about that?

What's a context in which you are doing this? Are you looking at another woman or man saying,

oh, she can do this, he can do that? Let me veer that way, forgetting that you can sing, forgetting your own blessings.

Let me read this again.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. I love here the word imaginary. We don't see life and other people

through a clear filter. We see everything through our filters of desire, of our wounds, our own subjectivity.

And when we try and copy or imitate someone else or we think that someone else has it better, what they have is cooler,

we so readily abandon everything that's good and unique and precious about us.

I see it happen all the time. This is often, often what we refer to, or I see referred to as Shiny Object Syndrome, right? I've seen this happen in business a lot.

Say I have a friend who's doing really well and then she

see someone doing something a bit different and she's like, oh, let me implement that. And then she forgets

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