Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I'd like to share with you today a principle that is really powerful.

It's often overlooked.

I think that so many of us suffer because we overlook this and we wait when we could instead be taking

action and feeling good and feeling full of joy as a result. Here's what it is, my friends.

It's the give what you want to get principle. Now I write about this in the book, Let It Be Easy.

And if you like the Let It Be Easy podcast, you might just love having Let It Be Easy book on your nightstand because they're all just short one page

chapters, flip to any page, you don't have to read the book in a linear way. And I do break

this down a little more in the book. So if you don't already have a copy, grab yourself one

and one for a friend. Why not? But think about it. The give what

you want to get principle. In the book, I tell a story about a woman who I coached who kept saying,

you know, it's really hard to make friends. She was saying that, you know, the people that she

meets, they don't really make plans with her, they don't check in on her. And even if she said

that, you know, she's got

something important or big coming up. And the first thing I asked her was, are you doing that?

Are you showing up for other people in the way you'd love them to show up for you? Are you making

plans with them? If you know they have a big or important day, are you checking in to wish them luck?

If you know they're going to the doctor, are you asking them, you know, how did it go? Hope they're okay.

Can you help in any way? It's really easy to sit in our corner waiting for things to happen, right?

Hoping that other people show up for us. hoping that we get love, hoping that we get

opportunities, hoping that we get X, Y, Z. Are you giving what you want to get? I think to myself,

if I want my husband to be more affectionate, I'll be more affectionate. If I want my friends to

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