27. Busy Is a State of Mind
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore what it really means to be busy and why we choose to inflict busyness on ourselves. We take a look at the two forms of the “I’m so busy” that we use in our daily lives and why both of them are highly unhelpful. Tune in to find out how you can stop using “busy” as a way to stress yourself out and find out how to never feel too busy to make real progress on your important projects and initiatives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, Kara Loyenthyle. Chickens it is finally spring like for real spring like it's been above 50 |
| 0:37.4 | degrees for a week spring even if just barely like 51 So chickens obviously lay eggs in spring. |
| 0:45.2 | This isn't actually an animal husbandry podcast now. |
| 0:48.5 | I hope you guys don't mind. |
| 0:50.1 | No, so we're not gonna lay eggs. |
| 0:51.6 | But I'm definitely feeling those kind of generative, creative juices flowing because that's what spring does. |
| 0:58.0 | And I've been taking advantage of the weather recently and I've been working at a cafe in my neighborhood that has |
| 1:04.4 | outside tables and yesterday I was sitting there and I was doing some planning for |
| 1:09.5 | the month like to plan out my work those of you who have worked with me know I teach a very specific |
| 1:15.2 | organizational system to get your workload under control and I use it myself. |
| 1:19.0 | So I'm doing my monthly planning and I heard these two women next to me engaging in the most competitive sport in New York City, which is the busy Olympics. |
| 1:30.0 | So you know what the busy Olympics are, right? |
| 1:32.0 | It's a cutthroat competition in which each So you know what the busy Olympics are, right? |
| 1:32.8 | It's a cutthroat competition in which each person tries to convince |
| 1:37.2 | one or more other people or just anyone within earshot |
| 1:40.4 | that they themselves are truly the busiest person in the world, or at least the busiest person in that conversation. |
| 1:47.0 | Now, even before I became a coach, I was like pretty unenthused about the busy Olympics. I was really always more than happy to let other people win at being the busiest. |
| 1:58.4 | My goal is never to be the busiest. But a lot of people do want to be the busiest. Feeling busy is one of the things that stresses out a lot of us even as we continue to be invested in being busy or more importantly in seeming busy to other people and even to ourselves. |
| 2:16.4 | And it's something I hear from my clients all the time because so many of them believe that |
| 2:22.0 | stress is inescapable if you are very busy, |
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