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I lay down on the couch and I'm starting to take a nap.

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I'm 20 minutes into the nap, I am deep.

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I'm knocked out, unconscious, dreaming away.

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And then suddenly I'm pulled out of my deep rest because I hear my mom gasp.

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There's a cardinal over there on our neighbor's tree.

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And I find myself jump extremely fast and sprint to the kitchen where my mom is.

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And I just look out the window at our neighbor's tree and see the cardinal.

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And I just say, oh, it's a sign that spring is coming.

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Because for context, if you saw yesterday's YouTube video, I talked about how I'm beginning

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to dread the cold.

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And so I saw the cardinal and I'm thinking, oh, spring is coming, just as a joke.

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But I just really like this story because when I got so rudely pulled out of my deep

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sleep, I had a few options.

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I could have either just ignored it and gone back, tried to go back to taking my nap and

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end up getting mad in my own thoughts.

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Or I could have woken up and gotten mad for them waking me up.

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Or I could have done the best option, which is what I did, and just went along with it

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because sometimes you just got to catch yourself and not take it so seriously.

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Because for the first part, first of all, it was my fault that I decided to take a nap

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on the couch where everyone else is right next to the kitchen.

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But besides that point, it's also not getting mad.

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One of the greatest things that I've done over the past couple, one of the greatest things

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that I've worked on over the past couple months is working on my anger tolerance and not getting

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mad so easily and actually trying not to get mad at all.

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That has helped tremendously with my life and my discipline.