387 - A Simple Exercise to Stay Present
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about staying present and living in the moment, because this is Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.
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The Highlights:
- It's getting harder and harder to stay present
- Everything in life is competing for your attention
- By taking control of your attention you can improve your focus
The Quotes:
"Depression lives in the past and anxiety lives in the future. Alternately, calmness and peace of mind live in the present." - Elyssa Barbash
"Harvard psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert found that people spend almost 47% of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re currently doing."
The Takeaway:
"Monotasking, also known as single-tasking, is the practice of dedicating oneself to a given task and minimizing potential interruptions until the task is completed or a significant period of time has elapsed. Monotasking contrasts with multitasking, which is the ability to divide one's focus among multiple tasks."
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| 0:00.0 | In this is tiny leaps. |
| 0:14.2 | Big change. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, big changes where I share simple strategies you can use |
| 0:37.0 | to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we're talking about staying present, the practice of staying present, when everything around you is going on when there's all these beeps and clings and plongs and I'm just making up words at this point |
| 0:56.7 | to distract you away from the task at hand how do you stay present? That is the question that quite frankly I think all of us need to answer because as you know the more we're able to focus on one thing the more enjoyment we get out of it, the more we are able to really |
| 1:16.5 | appreciate it and the more progress will make on that thing, whether it's a task that we have for work or for our own personal goals |
| 1:25.8 | so this is gonna be a good one make sure you stick around for that before we jump into it though |
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| 2:01.5 | head over to sparkology. co slash tiny leaps that's sparkology |
| 2:06.4 | dot co slash tiny leaps so how do we stay present the thing is, it's getting harder and harder |
| 2:15.6 | to stay present in today's world. |
| 2:17.1 | It's getting so, so difficult. |
| 2:19.8 | It seems like everything is just trying to get our attention. |
| 2:24.0 | Even this episode, I titled it in a particular way |
| 2:28.0 | and the app that it's on gives you a notification |
| 2:31.0 | and like everything that we do, |
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