You're listening to Business Made Simple with Donald Miller,

Koola Callahan, and Dr. J.J. Peterson.

I have a question for you. When's the last time you had a great idea?

I mean a really great breakthrough idea.

If it's been more than a week, you're probably dealing with what I'm dealing with.

And that is you are running Red Line.

Today's episode is about what to do when you're Red Line.

When it's costing you creative energy.

And we're going to interview my old friend, Juliette Funt,

and she is the antidote to being Red Line.

She's the vaccine. She's got a new book out called A Minute to Think.

And she's going to talk about the benefit of actually slowing down and accomplishing less.

And doing nothing. Juliette is going to try to convince me that doing nothing will improve my

life, will improve my health, will improve my relationship with my wife, will improve my

relationship with my brand new daughter. Every time I say that, I want to cry.

I'll do anything to improve those things. And Juliette's going to help.

Juliette, we are all going back to work.

Whether we want to or not, it turns out you actually have to do work in order to feed yourself.

And we don't know how to do it. And I'm wondering because everything was chaos during

COVID. And now it's going back to quote unquote normal. It's a hybrid normal.

How do we not just overwork ourselves like we were doing before this pandemic?

Well, if we were overworking ourselves before the pandemic, I don't even know what the word

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