1512: Don’t Push It Too Hard by Shana Olmstead on How To Find Balance & Create Space In Your Life for Personal Growth

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Shana Olmstead shares her thoughts on not pushing it too hard. Episode 1512: Don’t Push It Too Hard by Shana Olmstead on How To Find Balance & Create Space In Your Life for Personal Growth Shana Olmstead's passion and life's work is connecting with people and helping them to believe the best about themselves. Her own process of spiritual awakening 15 years ago, and the personal transformation she has had since then has helped her to understand that her true calling in this lifetime is to help awaken the souls of others. She believes everyone is capable of transformation. The original post is located here: https://shanaolmstead.com/2019/11/25/dont-push-it-too-hard/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1512. Don't Push It Too Hard by Shana Olmsted.
0:30.0	And she also has a Master's of Arts in Psychology and has done clinical training.
0:34.0	Now a psychotherapist helping people who are stuck changed the way they think about themselves
0:39.0	in the world. Come by her site to learn more and to support her and the big thanks to her for letting me share her work.
0:45.0	So without further ado, let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:53.0	Don't Push It Too Hard by Shana Olmsted.
0:59.0	I recently had brunch with some friends and they let me know that this is my catchphrase.
1:03.0	They told me that they were at the gym the other day working out, feeling tired and sweaty and exhausted,
1:08.0	but hadn't done their whole workout. They were about to keep going out of guilt and obligation.
1:13.0	And then they remembered the phrase, don't push it too hard and left the gym.
1:18.0	They decided to onto their true feelings, take care of their bodies and let themselves off the hook that day just a little bit.
1:24.0	I mean, aren't we all pushing it too hard with everything most of the time?
1:28.0	So many people work too hard, don't rest enough and are busy with everything all the time.
1:33.0	Pushing It Too Hard. We think we don't have time and we have to achieve and produce and do and have.
1:41.0	We think the harder we push, the more we do and have, the better we will feel.
1:45.0	That next promotion will do it and we're buying the bigger house or the nicer car.
1:49.0	Pushing ahead all the time, just trying to get a little of the feeling of ease and flow and comfort that we all want.
1:55.0	The problem with this approach is that it doesn't work at all. Pushing and pushing pushes away what we want.
2:02.0	Pushing is the opposite of peace.
2:05.0	I propose a new way of being, not pushing it too hard. This means with everything, work, relationships, working out, eating, all of it.
2:15.0	Not pushing it too hard is one of the values I live by.
2:19.0	So many people I work with believe that the harder they push and the more they criticize themselves, the happier and more successful they will be.
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