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  • What up! What up! What up! It's Marie here with Q & A Tuesday!

  • Q: So today we have a great question, little controversial but super fun and it's from

  • Lynn, and Lynn writes:

  • "Hi, Marie. When life's giving you a sh*t sandwich, how do you stay motivated to stay

  • on track with your goals? No jobs, no prospects, no money, depression spider spinning their

  • webs. Thanks! Lynn."

  • So I figured you know, we wanted to actually look up what sh*t sandwich means in the Urban

  • dictionary just in case you're not familiar with sh*t sandwiches or you've never had one.

  • And, when I looked up this definition, it says "an unfavorable situation or dilemma.

  • E.g. "I knocked up my best friend's wife. What a huge sh*t sandwich!"

  • A: Anyway okay, so you know I really thought long and hard about how to answer you, Lynn

  • and I have to say your question has evoked a lot of things that I will talk about. Especially

  • with young people; especially with privileged young people, and privileged old people. Here's

  • what I mean by that, first part of my answer is about perspective and gratitude. I did

  • a little research on you because I have your email and I have your Twitter account. I have

  • all that stuff and I learned that you live in the developed world.

  • You live in the United States. You have a husband. You have a business. All of that

  • means that what you consider a sh*t sandwich is like half of the world's freaking fairytale

  • life. And, I don't mean to be insensitive at all and I don't want to belittle at all

  • your feelings of feeling not good enough and having a bit of a hard time. But I think perspective

  • is awesome for all of us, myself included.

  • I just came back from a trip to South Africa. That was my first time ever in that part of

  • the world and I had the opportunity to meet a lot of young people, a lot of kids actually.

  • And they in my perspective have a bit more of a sh*t sandwich than any of us do. For

  • example, meeting lots of kids that were five, six-year olds, they're orphans. Their parents

  • both have died of HIV-AIDS and they also now have HIV. That to me is a little bit more

  • of a serious sh*t sandwich.

  • A huge favorite book of mine it's called Half the Sky and it's about all the things that

  • are happening to women around the world. So for example, a real sh*t sandwich is not being

  • able to get a job because half of your face is burned off from acid because you turned

  • down a marriage proposal. That I consider a sh*t sandwich. What you and I go through

  • on a daily basis, not really!

  • Okay, so not to make you feel awful but here's one of the things that I do if I ever catch

  • myself complaining again and not really seeing all the blessings and the things that I do

  • have around me that are amazing. So what I would suggest for you if you ever find yourself

  • in a circumstance where your mind's going like, "Oh everything sucks! And, "All I'm

  • eating is sh*t sandwiches." Put down the sh*t sandwich! Put it down and start looking around.

  • Like, what do you have?

  • Do you have running water? Check. Do you have a roof over your head? I bet you do. Even

  • the fact that you're watching this video right now. You're probably watching it on a computer,

  • right? You have to be watching it on a computer or an Iphone, or something like that. Tells

  • me that you've got things to be grateful for and if you start paying attention to what

  • you actually have and just have a little bit of gratitude.

  • I know it's clichŽ but it actually works and just say, "You know what, I have these

  • things going for me. What can I build on? How can I take this and leverage it to actually

  • move ahead?" And, you start looking around, look at the paper. I've never opened a newspaper

  • in my life and not seen Want ads. That's one of the things that my dad taught me that I

  • think that's always useful and people are like, "Oh, I don't have jobs. I don't have

  • prospects." It's like if that was me, I'd go work for freakin McDonalds.

  • But I mean I have; I've cleaned people's houses. I've bartended. I've waited tables. I've done

  • anything that I've needed to do in order to put money on the table and it's a funny thing

  • when you start getting into that mode of hustling and working. You start seeing what you have

  • and then momentum builds, and pretty soon you're not looking at sh*t sandwiches because

  • you're looking at all the great things that are happening in your life. So that shift

  • in perspective really does do a lot.

  • To wrap this whole thing up, all of us from time to time if we get a little lost, we can

  • think, "Oh life is giving us a sh*t sandwich." I say no. I say take a look, be grateful and

  • then if you need to, you probably need some new friends or some new inspiration. Like

  • go read some great blogs or watch a great movie, or read some books that are actually

  • empowering and enlightening, and positive. That does it for me. I don't know about you

  • but that's what I would suggest to just turn that sh*t sandwich frown upside down, honey.

  • So thank you as always for watching and if you like it, like it! If you have any comments

  • about sh*t sandwiches of your own or ways that you've turned it around, please leave

  • a comment below and I'll talk to you next time!

What up! What up! What up! It's Marie here with Q & A Tuesday!

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