Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that you are someone's after It's easy
Speaker 1: to take aspects of our lives for granted, but remembering
Speaker 1: how much of a goal parts of your life would
Speaker 1: be for other people can make day to day life
Speaker 1: feel a lot better. In a recent Before Breakfast episode,
Speaker 1: I talked about understanding your jealousy. Many of us have
Speaker 1: certain kinds of social media posts that make us feel
Speaker 1: worse than others. When we can nail down why that is,
Speaker 1: we can make changes in our lives to address at
Speaker 1: least some of these pain points. But as we think
Speaker 1: about this, I think it's also worth asking why we're
Speaker 1: more likely to compare up then compare down. We compare
Speaker 1: ourselves to the mansions or fancy vacations of Instagram and
Speaker 1: feel lacking. We don't compare ourselves to the billions of
Speaker 1: people worldwide with far fewer resources. That may be human nature,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't have to be a given. We also
Speaker 1: don't even need to think about obviously terrible situations like
Speaker 1: war or famine to be reminded of how much we
Speaker 1: have to be grateful for I am willing to bet
Speaker 1: that there is some aspect of your life that you
Speaker 1: don't think about much that would absolutely be a goal
Speaker 1: for someone else. You are someone's after, the state they
Speaker 1: are working hard to achieve. Per apps. For instance, you
Speaker 1: are in the happy place of adding to your net worth.
Speaker 1: It's not millions, but it is in the positive number territory.
Speaker 1: That is a goal for millions of people who are
Speaker 1: trying to get out of debt. You already are the
Speaker 1: financial after, or maybe you are pretty happy with your job.
Speaker 1: You like your coworkers, you get to work on interesting problems,
Speaker 1: you have a reasonable work life balance, and you get
Speaker 1: paid well. Wonderful. There are all sorts of people who
Speaker 1: are spending years and enduring much anxiety as they try
Speaker 1: to change careers to get to that same place of contentment.
Speaker 1: You are already the career after, or maybe you exercise regularly.
Speaker 1: As such, you take certain things for granted, like being
Speaker 1: able to run a mile or being able to touch
Speaker 1: your toes. Plenty of people who are just starting out
Speaker 1: on their fitness journeys would love to be there already.
Speaker 1: This is true whether any of us look like the
Speaker 1: photos in those traditional aftershots or not. The point is
Speaker 1: to think about your life and think about how many
Speaker 1: good things don't really even register just because they are
Speaker 1: so ingrained that they seem easy for many people. They
Speaker 1: are not easy. When you remember that you are someone's after,
Speaker 1: you can approach daily life with a far more abundant
Speaker 1: sense of gratitude. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
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