#496 The Art of No: Reclaiming Your Time for Happiness
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Art of No: Reclaiming Your Time for Happiness
Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed, overcommitted, and undernourished? Join us on The Art of No as we explore the liberating practice of saying 'no' with grace and intention. Together, we'll uncover the secrets to prioritizing self-care, finding joy in simplicity, and creating a life that truly lights you up.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. There's a lot of things that keep us from being happy, having a good life, but do you know what one of the main ones is that we have complete control over and yet we every day often succumb to it? |
| 0:22.0 | I call it the yes trap. The first time I really began to |
| 0:26.2 | understand the yes trap is one when I was at university working in my first college |
| 0:30.7 | degree. One of my professors who I felt was very wise was sharing this story about people that |
| 0:37.2 | are good at what they do get asked to do more and more, and the ones that don't really |
| 0:41.9 | do anything don't get asked to do much at all. |
| 0:44.6 | And she said it was sad because often everyone should be involved but the people who often are good |
| 0:49.8 | at what they do get asked over and over again to the point that they often get exhausted. |
| 0:55.8 | And sometimes she said they reach a point of such exhaustion that they really can't help out |
| 1:00.5 | anyone else anymore because they're just utterly spent. And as I was entering the |
| 1:05.8 | field of health care and helping other people, I really saw this to be true. Some people |
| 1:11.2 | were so bad at saying no that they truly either got sick or just stop because |
| 1:17.0 | they couldn't do it anymore. They got burnout. So where does this yes trap come from? It grows from our cultural and societal pressures to |
| 1:26.4 | over commit, people saying yes when they already are overwhelmed with things to do, even if saying yes is detrimental to our own well-being. A few |
| 1:36.0 | years ago I was in Yellowstone National Park, one of the most beautiful |
| 1:40.0 | national parks in America and while I was there I ran into three different doctors |
| 1:45.3 | that at all retired early because they were so exhausted from their work and just couldn't do it |
| 1:50.8 | anymore they couldn't say no so what they did is they just quit. |
| 1:54.6 | And these were very capable people that could have helped so many others. |
| 1:58.6 | But they just wore themselves out. So all three of them decided to retire early. Not that there's anything wrong with |
| 2:05.4 | retiring early, but might it not be better if we decide to retire early that we do it |
| 2:10.7 | because we really like our job, but we're ready for a new phase in our life |
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