222 - Success Begins with the Mind: Challenging the Myth of Multitasking | Life Happens the Podcast
Life Happens with Barb & Michelle
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Multitasking is quietly killing our productivity. Rushing through everything at once leaves us scattered, stressed, and less effective. What if slowing down, practicing patience, and being present was actually the key to real success?
This week on Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re challenging the myth of multitasking and offering a healthier, more sustainable approach—one rooted in presence and ease. Together, we explore:
✨ Moving from a “monkey mind” to focused awareness
✨ Why multitasking fragments our attention and reduces productivity
✨ Letting go of guilt and shame through intentional action
✨ The power of patience—and how to cultivate it
✨ Finding balance between work and personal life
💬 Barb shares timeless wisdom on understanding the mind and staying grounded in the present.
💬 Michelle offers fresh insights and powerful visuals on how slowing down can transform the way we live and work.
This episode is a gentle reminder that even in the busiest seasons, patience and presence will always serve us better than hustle and overwhelm.
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💛 Episode Highlights:
- Understanding the “monkey mind”
- The power of presence in daily life
- Navigating life’s pressures with ease
- Exploring the mind–body connection
- Cultivating patience as a virtue
- Practical strategies for emotional well-being
- Creating balance and presence in your life
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Life Happens with Barb and Michelle, and we're so excited to chat with you all about life's most interesting and meaningful topics. And we have a good one for you all today. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, Mom. Hi, Michelle. How you doing today? Fantastic. I feel like our outfits are very, we're in a very monochromatic. You're red, I'm blue. |
| 0:21.5 | I love it. I like it. I do too. |
| 0:22.9 | I love this look on you. I do too. How are you doing today? Kind of going into the fall. So I thought I would, you know, spruce it up a little bit with some fall. I'm great. I'm great. I love this topic. And I feel like we have a good twist on it and take on how we can start to do this a little bit more |
| 0:39.4 | seamlessly and effectively and you'll see the benefits of it. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm excited to talk about it. |
| 0:46.0 | So excited because I had no idea how to navigate this until, you know, all of you know, |
| 0:51.0 | I went into treatment for bulimia 40 years ago. |
| 0:53.2 | So I had no idea how to |
| 0:54.4 | navigate this. So I'm, it's a topic near and dear to my heart because I think it has done |
| 0:58.5 | amazing things for my life and the quality of my life. Absolutely. So I know we've talked about |
| 1:04.9 | this a lot on the show in past episodes and just, you know, of course, on social media as well. |
| 1:10.3 | But I think like you mentioned, |
| 1:11.8 | we're in the fall season. It seems to be a busy time for so many. I mean, life as always, |
| 1:19.0 | we have pressures and responsibilities and expectations and mile-long to-do lists. And it just |
| 1:24.2 | feels like there's so much to do, so little time, so how can we, you know, |
| 1:30.9 | figure out a way to do more in less time, if that makes sense? And we're often felt |
| 1:39.8 | compelled or pressured to multitask, to, you know, stack up a bunch of different tasks at the |
| 1:47.4 | same time to get more done in less time and relieve some of our stress. And, you know, I started |
| 1:53.5 | this conversation with saying that you've been talking about this for what I feel like my whole |
| 1:57.5 | life because you've always instilled within me as a parent and now we talk about it in our work and as adults but the true power of being present and being present-minded to doing one task at a time so essentially the opposite of multitasking and one thing at a time and you know I think it's powerful |
| 2:25.2 | but impossible maybe these days I think as time goes on it feels less and less accessible accessible, I think, to so many, which is why |
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