355: Celeste Headlee - Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, & Underliving
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Celeste Headlee (IG: @celesteheadlee) is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker, and bestselling author.
Today we're discussing her latest book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Work shouldn’t be your life
- Celeste’s health began to downgrade from overworking
- Design your life to have downtime
- The negative impact of technology & social media on your brain
- Tips for working from home
- Celeste's 13-day train adventure
- Where did the 40 hour work week come from?
- The work ethic that was ingrained in us
- Allowing time for your mind to wander
- You decrease your productivity when you push your brain too far
- People can generally focus for 4-5 hours
- Untouchable days = no interruptions
- The human brain can’t multitask
- The distinction between idleness & laziness
- What are the things that relax you?
- Your purpose doesn’t have to be connected to your work
- What is time perception?
- Ask yourself how you want to spend your time
- Our #1 need after survival is belongingness
- Using social time to help others
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Related links:
Celeste Headlee - Do Nothing (book)
Follow Celeste Headlee on Instagram and Twitter
Celeste Headlee - We Need To Talk (book)
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| 0:00.0 | My health became to downgrade because it was hard for me to turn down gigs. |
| 0:05.4 | It was hard for me to turn down opportunities. |
| 0:07.6 | I couldn't sort of justify it to myself and I was, you know, in my mind saying, |
| 0:11.8 | suck it up, Buttercup. |
| 0:13.2 | And so I just worked too much. |
| 0:16.0 | I had too much on my schedule. |
| 0:17.4 | I was trying to do absolutely everything. Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 355. |
| 0:30.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:32.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:35.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:40.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, |
| 0:42.7 | fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:45.6 | And this week we're speaking with Celeste Hedley. |
| 0:48.1 | She's an award-winning journalist, professional speaker, |
| 0:51.2 | and best-selling author. |
| 0:53.0 | Today we're discussing her latest book Do Nothing, |
| 0:55.6 | How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, |
| 0:58.7 | and Under-Living. |
| 1:00.2 | And this topic really struck home with me and I was excited to learn more about it because I'm somebody who loves to work and loves what they do. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'm somebody who is always wanting to be doing something at all times and I'm always trying |
| 1:15.8 | to find that balance. |
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