Lauren Smith Brody

I like somebody asked for a favor in the middle of it.

I scheduled the favor on my calendar as I'm on the walk and I'm thinking, you know what?

this is the best walk I've ever had because it's not what it's supposed to be.

And yet it's making me feel so, so good.

And I've been talking a lot.

I was preparing at the time, sort of in my mind, what I was gonna say on a webinar that I was booked to do like two days later.

And I have two ideas.

One is just resentment proof.

I talk all the time about how you should make decisions with your own lack of resentment in mind.

Like you don't wanna resent your job, your partner, your boss, your children.

Worst of all, you really don't wanna resent yourself.

So how can you make a decision that like,

like sort of forecasts feeling good about this.

And then the idea of being comfortable with your compromises.

That walk was an exercise in comfort with my compromises.

I was compromising all kinds of ways.

And that I realized is the goal.

The goal is not perfection.

The goal is not like a balanced life.

The goal is being comfortable with your compromises.