053: How 'Dead Butt Syndrome' Is Costing You Your Dreams
We’ve all been scammed! Duped! Hoodwinked!
At some point or another we’ve all been sold this idea that you only get one chance to live full out. You know…the whole, “once in a lifetime” narrative. It’s where you only get one opportunity in your life to do something worthwhile.
Listen to this week’s episode to discover:
Why the idea of a “once in a lifetime” life event is sucking the joy from you
What Dead Butt Syndrome is and how it’s killing more than your rear end
The #1 lesson that came out of my quarter-life crisis
How to use your most difficult moment can be your only path to living the life you dream about
How to take back control of your dreams and make them happen whenever and as many times as you want.
If I could take back all the time I spent “wishing” that the fabulous life I conjured up in my head, thanks to Hollywood, a healthy obsession with novels from a young age, and my Pisces spirit, I could have been in a hot an steamy love affair with my mere existence for many years longer than I have been!
And do you know what I blame for this travesty?
The idea that was planted in my head somewhere along the way, that you had to be “lucky” or a trust fund baby or simply stumble upon something “too good to be true,” in order to live a life that you loved. A charmed life…whatever that means to you.
I wish I didn’t, for so many years, stifle my happiness for “someday” and subconsciously use the excuse of ideas being a “once in a lifetime” sort of thing, if not labeled outlandish, to keep me in a “comfortable place,” but so frustrated I was stifled because I couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
But you know what. One day that changed.
One day, I just got so frustrated and overwhelmed with my unhappiness. If I am being honest, I became pissed when I looked around and realized that my real life was pretty far off from my dream life! Like galaxies away! That was the start of my quarter-life crisis….my inciting incident, if you will. That was the beginning of, well..the beginning. And a beautiful one at that!
I have learned many lessons around this subject. Far too many to recount here, but what I will say is that one major factor in all this was me figure out that the ‘once in a lifetime’ narrative was complete and utter bull and that if I didn’t tackle, what I now know as, ‘Dead Butt Syndrome',’ when it started, I would never have moved forward and created a life that is so tasty I always want seconds!
This is what I dive into during this week’s episode of the Eat the Damn Bread podcast!
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