375: How to Become a More Skilled Participant in the Living of Our Life
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The concluding note to readers that author, yoga and meditation instructor Deborah Adele shares in her book Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice includes the wish that they become more skilled participants in the living of their lives. And with the wisdom she shares in her book, she provides them with the tools to do just that.
Having shared various insights here on the blog gained from her book, specifically in this post about the simple conscious everyday choice that leads to true fulfillment, and as we conclude the two month-long series of 'new year, new life' as you continued along the way to making the change you set to bring to be as the new year began, I wanted to explore two simple, yet powerfully crucial habits that will make the difference you seek inevitable.
A skilled participant.
In order to be 'skilled' we must know the skills that would be beneficial to acquire. And in order to embody being a participant in our lives, we must be engaged, we must act, we must take part.
While we have covered multiple skills throughout this podcast, here on the blog and in TSLL's books (and will compile and detail them all in a linear approach to cultivating contentment in TSLL's upcoming Contentment Master Class video course), the two skills, I want to talk about today are simple to adopt and when we do, the quality of our life and everydays is amplified for the better:
- Choose to live instead of wait. In other words, Living vs. Waiting - choose the former.
- Choose to savor rather than to rush. In other words, Savoring vs. Rushing - again, choose the former.
Let's dive into each of these in more detail . . .
Check out the Show Notes for this epsiode on TSLL blog - https://thesimplyluxuriouslife.com/podcast375
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for tuning in to the simple sophisticated podcast. The show that is part of the simply |
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| 0:35.0 | your contentment from a Monday motivational post, recipes, videos of the |
| 0:39.7 | cooking show series, style and the core inspiration inspiration French and British inspired content and |
| 0:44.8 | reader's favorite regular weekly post this and that which is posted each |
| 0:49.2 | Friday morning now to today's episode. Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, |
| 1:21.7 | working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 1:25.1 | cafe or a cafe or a lé. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 375th episode of the simple Sophisticate. I've got my T port, I've got a fresh new day beginning and I am looking forward to bringing you today's episode. |
| 1:56.4 | We're starting to wrap up this two-month series of starting the new year well |
| 2:01.8 | and creating this new life that we've envisioned at the top of the year |
| 2:05.8 | 2024 or whatever year you may be listening to this episode in coming years. The key here is to keep stepping forward and as we talked about in some of the first episodes and post of January, it's about also creating an environment that nourishes us so that we are encouraged and even motivated to continue towards this change which may require more forethought, which may require more conscious |
| 2:36.4 | effort before it becomes ingrained. Whatever change you are bringing to your life. |
| 2:43.0 | So what are we talking about today? |
| 2:45.0 | We are focusing on how to become a more skilled participant |
| 2:50.0 | in the living of our life. |
| 2:53.0 | And we'll break down that phrase and where it came from |
| 2:56.0 | because skilled participant living, |
| 3:00.0 | our life, those are not accidental words that I've chosen and we'll break that |
| 3:08.7 | down and talk about two very specific skills that when we incorporate them into how we engage with every single day |
| 3:17.8 | make all the difference in the world. But before I dive into those two skills, |
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