You pour your heart and soul into a vision, and you're ready to execute, but you encounter obstacle after obstacle. Your middle schooler tries their best, but they don't get what they'd planned on. These experiences happen to every human on the planet.

We've all been conditioned to focus so much on the doing of life, and our identities are so caught up in our to-do list, it can feel deflating for you and your middle schooler when things don't go according to plan. 

In this episode, I share a simple story about how focusing on your own being with acceptance and patience for what comes up leads to greater success in your doing. 

If I could suggest two words of action for you and your middle schooler as we head into the holidays it would be this: simplify and acceptance. Simplify where you can, and accept what is. Practice releasing the expectation that either of you need to be or feel anything else. Your well-being isn't connected to a to-do list. 

Listen in now to understand the connection between simply being and getting the burst of insight or energy you both need to move forward.