314: Takeaways from Slipstream Time Hacking by Benjamin Hardy
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
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🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
How do you like spending your time alone?
Welcome to today's episode of the 'School of Self-Image' Podcast with host and self-image coach, Tonya Leigh, where personal development meets style. This a go-to podcast for women who desire to transform their self-image so that they can create mind-blowing results in their lives.
Today, I'll be sharing the key takeaways from the book of Benjamin Hardy, 'Slipstream Time Hacking.' It is a self-improvement book that revolves around time, life, mindset, and decisions. Imagine yourself taking control of your life where time is the number one currency and reasons why you should take action.
Time = Money. For Ben, time is the new money. In the book, you will realize the value of time in a very realistic way. Every page has that effect on your life ~ what you do, what you think, and what you know.
So, here I am challenging you to live the life you always wanted to live right now! But before that, listen to this week's episode to learn ways how to make it possible.
What I Cover In This Episode:
0:37 - 2022 Thanksgiving
2:11 - The concept of slipstream
6:32 - Takeaway #1: Measuring life as distance traveled rather than time elapsed.
10:26 - Takeaway #2: A well-lived life is nothing more than a collection of well-lived days.
15:24 - Decision making: speed VS magnitude
16:34 - Takeaway #3: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."- Parkinson's law
18:44 - The story of Tim and Ben
21:40 - Takeaway #4: Change doesn't have to take a long time, it happens the instant we decide.
25:49 - Takeaway #5: Time is our only currency.
30:19 - Takeaway #6: Those who become the greatest and go the farthest are highly selective about what they take on.
31:22 Takeaway #7: Most of us engage in far too many priorities.
32:20 - Takeaway #8: Despite turbulence and other conditions, keeping the plane off course.
34:20: Takeaway #9: True commitment can only occur when turning back is no longer an option.
36:15 - Takeaway #10: When you commit to something a hundred percent, all of your future choices are already made no matter how attractive the circumstances.
36:52 - Takeaway #11: Time is sacred in the first few hours of your day.
37:49 - Takeaway #12: Leveraging other people's time, skills and money are essential for getting where you want to go faster.
39:05 - Takeaway #13: We all have invisible doors and the direct proximity that will transport us decades into our best futures.
40:55 - Takeaway #14: You're bound to fumble along the way.
42: 06: Takeaway #15: When the end of life comes, we leave with nothing but our relationships.
Quotes:
"I set really big goals for myself."
"If a task is perceived to be unimportant, it will take enormous amounts of time to complete. Conversely, if a task is perceived to be important, it will get done soon. Sometimes immediately depending on how important and urgent the task is."
"... think about how we're spending our time. Are we spending our time on the things that we really want to be spending it on?"
"Life in general in our world with limitless options, limitless books to read, limitless clothes to wear, a limitless path to take it is extremely important to be picky."
Useful Resources:
- Get a copy of the book: Takeaways from Slipstream Time Hacking by Benjamin Hardy
- FREE Download: Self-Image Manifesto
- The School of Self-Image
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| 0:00.0 | Jean Jacques Russo said the man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years |
| 0:06.9 | but he who has most felt life. In this episode I'm sharing my takeaways from Benjamin Hardy's book |
| 0:14.6 | Slipstream Timehacking. So let's dive in. Welcome to the School of Self-Image where personal |
| 0:21.7 | development meets style. Here's your hostess, master life coach, Tanya Lee. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello gorgeous friends. Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. I've had such a fun week. |
| 0:38.7 | I just have to share it with you. I went to my bestie brook's house for Thanksgiving. It was her |
| 0:44.2 | family and my family and friends. It was a friend's giving. The thing that we like to do when we all |
| 0:51.1 | get together is play games. And typically it's card games or board games, but this time it was |
| 0:57.1 | pickleball. How many of you all have played pickleball before? It is so much fun. I cannot play |
| 1:07.0 | enough. My friend brook was like you're like an addict. I get out there and I'm like let's play |
| 1:11.3 | one more game. One more game. One day we played like six hours. That's how much pickleball we played. |
| 1:16.9 | And now I feel like my hips are confused. They're so sore. They're like what just happened? |
| 1:24.2 | But pickleball will be a regular part of my life moving forward. I wish I could put a pickleball |
| 1:31.0 | court at my new house, but the lot's not big enough. Unless I put it in the front yard. |
| 1:38.3 | Can you imagine that? A pickleball court in your front yard. I don't know that my neighbors |
| 1:42.6 | would appreciate that, but it would be fun. But can you all believe it's already December? |
| 1:48.1 | Where has the time gone? In some ways it feels like this year's gone by so fast, but in some ways |
| 1:54.6 | it feels so slow. I was talking to my friend the other day about something that happened two years |
| 2:01.2 | ago and we were like oh my goodness that feels like a lifetime ago. It feels like forever and |
| 2:08.8 | yet it was just two years ago. Times a really interesting thing, isn't it? That's why I want to talk |
| 2:16.3 | about a concept called slip streaming. I was introduced to this concept by Benjamin Hardy. |
| 2:23.3 | Some of you may know of him. He wrote the book, Will Power Doesn't Work, and be your future self now. |
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