587: Busy is Bullsh*t
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
You aren't too busy to take care of yourself or to prioritize your health.
Sure, you might be able to tell yourself and others that's the reason you aren't making progress or doing the work, but it doesn't make it true. It's just a convenient story - a permission slip you write yourself for being inconsistent.
The reality is - taking great care of yourself increases your bandwidth, it doesn't decrease it. It gives you more energy, more focus, more determination, clarity and efficiency.
I love the Zen saying about meditation. "If you don't have time to meditate for an hour each day, meditate for two hours." If you think you're too busy, you need to adjust both your schedule and your perspective!
There are so many other elements to this permissive lie and we're exploring them all on today's episode!
https://primalpotential.com/587/
A Few Tips If You're "Busy"
- Stop using "busy"
- Ask yourself if you're creating a life you love or just keeping yourself busy
- Are you getting the results you want?
- Create more space
- Talk more slowly
- Think more slowly
- Move more slowly
- Meditate
- Eliminate obligations that you aren't passionate about
Resources
Join the Primal Potential Facebook group!
Watch the 4-Part Change Maker Series
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:07.2 | Primal Potential is about you. |
| 0:09.5 | Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. |
| 0:15.9 | Your transformation is now. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | I am Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:26.6 | Super excited to talk today about being busy and how I think that is BS. |
| 0:33.7 | I have received so many emails in the last week to two weeks from people who are saying |
| 0:40.1 | that they're just too busy to prioritize their goals, that they're too busy to make progress. |
| 0:44.7 | And while I believe that you believe that, it doesn't make it real. |
| 0:52.0 | It's one piece of the truth and there is a much broader version of the truth available |
| 0:57.2 | to you. |
| 0:58.2 | And we are going to break that down today. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm going to talk about the changes that I have made in my own life related to this |
| 1:04.2 | belief that I was too busy because I can tell that same story too, right? |
| 1:08.3 | I can make a very convincing argument for why I am too busy to do all of the things that |
| 1:14.8 | I am doing, but I don't tell myself that story. |
| 1:18.2 | And I don't want you to tell yourself that story either. |
| 1:22.4 | Two things before we get going with this talk about why busy is straight up BS and what |
| 1:28.9 | you can do about it. |
| 1:30.4 | First is that yes, registration is closed for the spring 12 weeks to transformation, but |
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