3583: Finding Zen In Everyday Life by Melani Schweder of A Brighter Wild on How to Reduce Stress

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3583: Melani Schwayder explores how we can reclaim peace and purpose by infusing our chaotic, fast-paced lives with the principles of zen. From single-tasking to mindful decluttering, this piece offers practical steps to create spaciousness, reduce stress, and reconnect with the calm that already resides within us. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.abrighterwild.com/blog/zen-in-everyday-life Quotes to ponder: "When eating, eat. When walking, walk." "Zen cannot exist where there is clutter." "You see, zen is something that already exists innately within us. We are born in perfect peace, at ease with our world and with ourselves." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Life pulls us in so many directions. With work, family, and our health all needing our attention,
0:06.9	it can be difficult to make decisions that are aligned with what we care about most.
0:11.7	If this resonates with you, I recommend the audiobook, What We Value from Communications and Psychology
0:17.6	Professor Dr. Emily Falk. She'll guide you through making more purposeful choices
0:22.5	that feel authentic to you. Find what we value on Audible, Spotify, and wherever audiobooks are sold.
0:31.7	This is Optimal Living Daily. Finding Zen in everyday life by Melanie Schwader of a brighterwild.com, and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:41.1	Welcome to Optimal Living Daily, OLD, or Old, the show where I read to you from articles that I think are
0:47.6	amazing with permission from the authors. One article a day, every single day of the year,
0:52.3	all to help you live a more meaningful life.
1:02.2	And here on this show that covers personal development or self-help, minimalism, inspiration, motivation, happiness, all that fun stuff.
1:06.5	So with that, let's get right to another post as we optimize your life. Finding Zen in Everyday Life by Melanie Schwader of a brighter wild.com
1:15.9	Take a moment to think back over the past week of your life. How have you been using your time?
1:22.5	How many emails clogged up your inbox? The spaces that you've been in, were they clean and spacious, or were they
1:29.4	dirty and cluttered? How much time did you spend running errands or tidying up the house? Did you have time
1:35.6	and energy to prepare healthy meals, meditate, exercise, or invest in your self-care? If you're
1:42.6	starting to get a not-so-nice picture of this last week,
1:45.9	don't worry, you're not alone. We live in a fast-paced, overburdened, overworked, and jam-packed culture.
1:54.2	We work long hours to make more money, to buy more things, to clutter up our houses.
1:59.6	We waste time with unnecessary correspondence,
2:02.3	social media notifications, and getting stuck in traffic. We feel like we're on this never-ending
2:07.6	treadmill to nowhere feeling disconnected and frazzled each and every day. We're sleep-deprived,
2:14.0	overweight, and stressed out. What all we really want is to get some Zen.
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