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Acceptance, without complaint, tastes so much sweeter.

Every Monday at 5:00 P.M. ET, Care Baldwin shares a Monday Motivation on the Drive with Care. This week, her daughter teaches her a valuable lesson about accepting without grumbling. 

"Acceptance, without complaint, tastes so much sweeter"

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Transcript:

Ice cream is my love language! Any flavour, really, but my favourite is mint chocolate chip. For my 3-year-old daughter, it’s anything pink. She loves everything pink. On our recent day touring around she told everyone she saw (literally her opening line!) that she was getting strawberry ice cream.

When we finally got to the ice cream shoppe as her reward for helping mommy run errands all afternoon, she asked the shopkeeper for strawberry ice cream please (as if she'd been practicing for this moment all day!)
They didn't have it.
Do you want chocolate? (I tried asking without projecting my tone of disappointment). Cheerfully... YES. Yummm chocolate. She ate the whole thing, never grumbled, as if it was her first choice from the start.

We can have our hearts set on something, determined WE know what’s best for us, but when we get a different outcome, it's how we respond to it and RECEIVE it that matters.
Instead of being disappointed, joyfully accept that, maybe, what we had our heart set on is not the only thing that’s good.
Besides, acceptance, without complaint, tastes sooo much sweeter ;)

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