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"This Made My Day"

Name: "This Made My Day"
Uploaded: 2025-07-18T16:00:33+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this informal dialogue, Speaker A shares a personal theme of focusing on small, positive moments—using a single great podcast episode as a catalyst to…

18 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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In this informal dialogue, Speaker A shares a personal theme of focusing on small, positive moments—using a single great podcast episode as a catalyst to create a good day, then a good week, and eventually a positive season. Speaker A reflects on past skepticism toward attributing a whole week’s quality to a minor event, noting an internal “judge machine.” Speaker B reacts skeptically, mocking the idea that a seemingly insignificant experience could be a source of lasting gratitude. Despite the criticism, Speaker A emphasizes that life is composed of many such small days, suggesting that accumulating these moments can shape overall well‑being.

One of my themes this year has been focusing on moments. I had this one great podcast today. I'm going to make that thing the thing that's making this a great day. And then if I can make that great day, then maybe it could be a great week. And then trying to expand those, basically let those good moments eat up the season. Now, I used to think, oh, this made my week. When someone would say something small, I'd be like, that's what made your week? Like, you must not have a lot going on. So true, right? Like, mentally, I like my own judgment. Judge machine, right?
That's lame. Yeah, exactly. Stupid thing. Oh my God. How feeble. How small is your life that something so unimpressive is a source of gratitude to you for a week or a month?
And yet, and yet, your life is made up of small days like this.
And if your expectation of life is that it's going to be, well, until I play the main stage at EDC, until I make the billion dollars, until I get married to the love of my life, until I get these things, You're just holding your happiness hostage until something great happens. And what if, again, it's what we said before, what if something small could be something great?