Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I have an interesting, perhaps proving question for you today.

A new way to look at this word, this term, this definition.

Are you a realist?

Are you someone who tells it like it is, who calls it like it is?

A very popular thing to say, right?

She calls it like it is.

He just calls it like it is.

It's so funny how I have this reaction when people say, you know, I just tell it like it is,

or I'm a realist. I'm just reminded instantly that no one can really be a realist or can call it

like it is because we're calling it how we see it or we're shouting it out or telling it the way that we

observe it through our lens. It is completely subjective. Truly, so much of what is deemed

an opinion is called fact, right, by our human egos. We're like, well, that's just the way it is, or that's just

how she is, or that's just what the situation is, right? We might deem something a failure.

We might deem something a positive. We might say someone is good or bad. My friends, if we saw

the full picture, if you weren't looking at just from one angle, if we saw really something that's full in front of us, we would be far less apt

to jump in a judge, to give it a label, to explain exactly what it is.

And what I've noticed, I have to, you know, I've shared this on the podcast before,

and definitely in self-coaching society, one of my least favorite expressions, words, terms of all time is

realistic, being a realist. Who defines this? Who defines what's realistic? I've got to tell you,

when I think about being realistic, not only am I reminded

of how utterly subjective that is, but I also know that it's often related to engineering a small

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