46. Ignoring the Noise: How to Avoid Distractions and Succeed in Life
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael broach the concept of focus as it relates to our ability to grow and connect to our true purpose in life. Tune in as they share spiritual tools and tips for avoiding distractions, identifying the things that actually serve our purpose, and training our minds to be 100% present in the truly valuable moments of our lives.
Don’t allow distractions to steal the ‘now’ from you. – Monica Berg
Further readings:
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
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| 0:00.0 | There are people who have a strong ability to focus and people who have less of an ability, |
| 0:14.0 | but all of us, and this is, I think, the awakening we want to have, need to increase our ability to focus unless we are actively becoming more |
| 0:23.9 | focused in all the areas of our lives from the most important to the least important we are not going to be |
| 0:29.4 | able to become better and extract all the great experiences that we're meant to have all the growth |
| 0:36.1 | that we're meant to have and all the manifestation of our own potential that we're meant to have, all the growth that we're meant to have, and all the manifestation of our own potential that we're meant to have. So we get so connected to these concepts of what we strive for and what we think we love, that we forget to put in the work of truly elevating ourselves. You know, it's like driving a car. I'm in the driver's seat, and sometimes people, the kids sit shotgun, sometimes they sit in the backseat, sometimes |
| 0:55.9 | the book I'm working on is the front or sometimes it's in the trunk, right? And everything |
| 0:59.4 | takes a rotation, but they all get time, energy, and focus. And I think that you really have to be |
| 1:04.0 | that strategic about your life. Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 46. |
| 1:11.6 | Yay! |
| 1:12.6 | Yay, it's still younger than you. |
| 1:14.6 | So we're going to talk about something that I think is interesting. |
| 1:19.6 | Mikhail needed a minute to get on board. |
| 1:21.6 | No? Not accurate. |
| 1:24.6 | So have you ever looked back on a week? And I don't think this actually will pertain to you, Michael, but are you, you're totally being distracted right now. |
| 1:33.3 | You're playing with your phone. |
| 1:34.3 | I understand that. |
| 1:35.3 | So that I should not be distracted. |
| 1:37.3 | That looks like a distraction to me. |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah, if only you did that on date night. |
| 1:42.3 | Flip the phone over and put it on silence. |
| 1:46.0 | No? |
| 1:48.5 | All right. |
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