Frustration points out how much we want something. I guess that means I want a lot of things because I get frustrated a lot! But we can use frustration as our guide and find our path to more fulfillment when we hear its message. Here's how I do it.
Episode Highlights
00:30 I don’t ever want to spend time in the belief that when things are hard and frustrating that it means I am a failure
01:40 Frustration doesn’t mean you fail. You only fail if you give up.
03:07 Life is frustrating! Just part of the deal.
03:50 In art school I got critiqued a lot, and a bad critique didn’t mean I didn’t pass the class, even if it felt horrible at the time. It was what made me get better, though.
04:30 The feelings of frustration can be the feedback that says, “I haven’t figured it out… YET.”
05:01 The path of least resistance can feel like giving up, or it can feel like taking a break. We get to choose.
05:20 What is the message in your muscles telling you to do? Frustration is blocked movement, so how do you want to move?
06:37 Defensiveness is my body saying it’s not safe to be here or listen to this, and that’s what I need to address to have the breakthrough
07:30 I’m going to keep showing up, even if I’m not getting it right
08:00 I’m doing the best that I can, and sometimes that means failure.
09:18 How can we create safety in failure, and safety to fail?
09:20 How can I feel frustration not as the precursor to imminent death and destruction but as a sign of progress?
10:50 Wanting everything to be perfect all of the time is unrealistic so of course, it’s frustrating.
11:21 There’s frailty built into the fabric of human existence and that’s OK.
12:11 There’s so much evolution that happens because of the setbacks that we should celebrate them.
13:28 Failure is inevitable. We all make mistakes. It’s how we grow. It’s how a life happens.
14:00 Frustration doesn’t mean that there is no path to the success that you want, it just means you haven’t found it yet.
15:00 Using anger and frustration as the energy that launches you toward what you want and away from what you don’t is the best use of those feelings.
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