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The Dr. Laura Podcast
The Things You Can Be Proud Of
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What are your holiday traditions? Putting up a minimum of six trees. Decorating every room with a different theme. Whatever it is, here's one way to make those traditions extra special. Start the season with Etsy. On Etsy, you'll discover original pieces from small shops to help you celebrate your way. Shop Etsy for holiday decor that makes you feel seen. Special starts on Etsy.
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I remember when I was on late nights on KFI AM640. More stimulating talk radio. I was on late nights. You never forget that. And 20 something, 24, six. Something like that guy called in his parents recently killed in a car crash. Seriously dead. Left a little sister. I think she was somewhat around 10. He's getting ready for college and a whole life. So he called me. Was he really supposed to give up what he was doing in his life at the time to raise his sister? I mean, there were, you know, like, some aunt, some uncle. There's other people. And I remember this vividly. And by the way, he did call back a zillion years later. I hope you all heard that. Surprised the heck out of me. But what I said to him is, by the power vested in Me by KFI AM640, more stimulating talk radio, I am now projecting you 20 years in your future gives you the opportunity right now on KFI to turn and look at this moment. What decision is going to make you feel the most proud? Yeah, that's what happened. Little dead silence. And he said, okay, I'll go get her. He called a million years later, he remembered that night. I remembered that night because most of the time, you folks mess up what could be a happier existence by not making the decisions that make you proud because you're scared, you're greedy, you want things easy. You don't want to stress yourself. You don't want to stand up against anything. You have a million good reasons for not making yourself proud. Personally, I love the feeling something so simple as picking up weights that are more than half my weight when I'm 78 and three quarters, that makes me proud. It also makes me happy. When three years ago, I fell down a hard flight of stairs because my brand new shoe caught on the Velcro kind of stuff they had on the. Yeah, I should have sued them. That was a dangerous staircase. But it was the first time I wore those shoes. I don't want to say the name of them. I don't want to get sued by them. I hit my leg in three places, hard. These were concrete stairs. The shin, the side of my thigh, my hip. The two final things to slam it to the floor at the bottom were my head right in the corner, which is good because it's curved, and my wrist, which I smushed. And to this day, I am so grateful that I have had the discipline to keep working out because the muscle strength saved my butt. Literally. I should have had a hip replacement and died by now. So I'm proud that in spite of how it's not always fun to get up in the morning and think, oh, I gotta work out today. I do it. And the payoff was that one night when I went. Somebody asked me recently because they asked me about what had happened and was I, because of my martial arts training, did I fall a good way. I said, hell no. Gravity ruled. I had no say. I even had a friend say, well, this is how you should have fallen. Go to your room. There's very little time to think about it when you're totally taken by surprise. But the only thought that went through my mind was, wonder how hurt I'm going to get. That was the only thing that went through my head. And then when my head slammed into the floor concrete, I thought, well, at least I'm not falling anymore. Being proud of yourself is a major thing in being happy in life. Yes, Dan, I know they dropped the radio. It's KFI AM640. More stimulating talk. And I've listened to the channel and there ain't nothing there stimulating anymore. They should have left the word radio in there and taken out stimulating. My number 1-800-375-2872 if you like this podcast, be sure to rate it on Apple Podcasts or your favorite place to listen to my podcast. Of course I'd love if you gave me five stars. And be sure to share this podcast with a friend on Facebook or your preferred social media platform.
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