182: Pedram Shojai - Time Is Our Most Valuable Gift • The Art Of The To-Do List • Smile More :)
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Pedram Shojai is former Taoist monk who is an accomplished physician of Chinese medicine and has lectured on wellness around the world. His no-nonsense approach teaches esoteric concepts to Western readers in an easy to understand way.
Today we discuss his new book, The Art of Stopping Time.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Most people are in a state of overwhelm
- Time is our most valuable gift
- At the end of the day, the teacher can't give you anything
- Assembling your life garden
- Your worth in society isn't how busy you are
- How saying yes can mean saying no to things we've already committed to
- Imagine yourself on your deathbed
- You'll be pushing up flowers
- Start making appointments for yourself and your self-care
- Using airplane mode to keep you from getting distracted
- We don't know how to be anymore, we have to do and produce
- What doing nothing really means
- Enjoy every moment like it's your last time experiencing it... it is
- If you have a to-do list that won’t get done by the end of the day, you're sentencing yourself to a life of misery
- The art of the to-do list
- Needs vs. wants
- The simple act of smiling
- Sipping tea can be a meditative practice
- You can't be "on" all the time
- How to properly construct your bucket list
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Related links:
Pedram Shojai - The Art of Stopping Time (book)
Pedram Shojai - The Urban Monk (book)
Well.Org website (Pedram's the founder)
The Urban Monk (Pedram's website)
Follow Pedram on Facebook and Instagram
Listen to Ryan Nicodemus previously on TUHP (episode #132)
Minimilism: A Documentary About the Important Things
Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (book)
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277: Marianne Williamson – A Course In Miracles • Self-Care vs. Selfishness • Transforming Politics
257: Jesse Itzler – Living With The Monks • Only Fruit Until Noon • Flip Your Relationship With Time
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You start to really think about things in terms of needs versus wants. |
| 0:05.0 | What are our actual needs? We need food, we need water, we need shelter, arguably we need love. |
| 0:11.0 | Everything else is a want. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 182. |
| 0:18.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marty Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:24.8 | This week our featured guest is Pedro Shojai. |
| 0:27.6 | He is a former Taoist monk who is an accomplished physician of Chinese medicine and has lectured |
| 0:32.4 | on wellness around the world. |
| 0:34.0 | His no-nonsense approach teaches esoteric concepts to Western readers in an easy to understand way. |
| 0:40.0 | And his book, The Art of Stopping Time, is nothing short of that. |
| 0:44.0 | Jesse and I really enjoyed this book and it's one of those books that you just want to keep out, |
| 0:48.0 | keep on your coffee table, and just have around because you just pick it up and read all these brilliant |
| 0:53.8 | amazing concepts. So some of the things that we get into are why time is our most |
| 0:58.5 | valuable gift, what really matters at the end of life, it's important to block off time in your calendar for your own self-care, |
| 1:06.2 | what doing nothing really means. |
| 1:08.4 | And lastly, if you have a to-do list that won't get done by the end of the day, |
| 1:12.2 | you are sentencing yourself to a life of |
| 1:14.4 | misery. |
| 1:15.4 | Pedram just makes everything just so simple, so clear and so real. |
| 1:19.3 | We had such a great conversation, excited for you guys to listen. |
| 1:22.1 | Here we go with Pedram Shojai. |
| 1:24.3 | Hello Pedram and welcome to the podcast how you doing today doing great great to be here. |
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