10 Things To Do Instead of Doing More
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Have you been sold a lie?
What if doing more is actually a fast track to achieving less?
You know how it goes, you find more time in your schedule, you've become competent at a certain amount of work and so your instinct is to fill the time gap, add more to your workload and generally max yourself out.
I'm not wrong, am I? Women especially have been targeted by a culture of success meaning a side-hustle, having some sort of brilliant entrepreneurial idea that'll make millions and being able to do everything perfectly in all corners of our lives. Yep, we're all expected to be able to do our own accounts, bake a Bake-Off quality birthday cake with no notice and maintain a fitness regime that requires hours in the gym.
It's. All. Too. Much.
So, in this episode I look at the ways in which you can still get everything done but without the accompanying panic, stress, cortisol spike and general urgency that we've been conditioned to lock into in order to appear, and feel, like we're doing things properly.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. Thank you so much for joining me. It's a pleasure to spend this time with you. And if you have seen the title of this episode, you will know that it is 10 things to do instead of doing more. |
| 0:23.3 | And you may have already, if you are a long time listener, you may have already figured out |
| 0:28.9 | the dots that I'm going to try and join in this episode. And this very much comes from |
| 0:34.2 | what I have been trying to do in my own personal life and the benefits that I have |
| 0:40.1 | seen and hope that I will continue to see. So I'd like to pass it on to you in a way that feels |
| 0:46.0 | useful. But in addition to that, I do think when I have been sort of taking stock and looking at the last professional decade, |
| 0:57.6 | perhaps, maybe even more, that I have definitely been conditioned to add more to my plate |
| 1:04.7 | as soon as I perceive any kind of room. And I don't just mean food. That's a bad analogy if you've |
| 1:10.4 | been here for a while, |
| 1:11.4 | ex-bingeater. So just add more to my load. Like if I'm competent at one thing, then why not try |
| 1:17.5 | something else as opposed to being comfortable in that competence? And I was thinking the other day |
| 1:22.9 | about some of the memes that I used to share or used to like, I should say, very much, |
| 1:28.6 | when I first started using social media platforms like Instagram, |
| 1:32.8 | because it was very much around that time of hustle |
| 1:37.9 | and the fact that it was a good thing to have a side hustle. |
| 1:42.4 | And it was at a time when many people did turn their side hustle into their main source of income. So it was a good thing to have a side hustle and it was at a time when many people did turn their side |
| 1:46.0 | hustle into their main source of income so it was it was a very exciting wonderful time and so there |
| 1:51.7 | was this this idea that if you were working a full-time job and somehow managing to fit something in |
| 1:57.4 | in your free time and then you turn that into your main job, that was really |
| 2:01.5 | admirable and don't get me wrong, it is. But we also have to understand what we can, what we can |
| 2:07.6 | bear load wise. And there were things like Beyonce has the same 24 hours in a day as you, which |
| 2:13.8 | sounds really good. And I suppose if you want it to be very simply motivating of so use your |
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