60: Give Yourself Permission to Do Less
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In today's world of social media, it’s easy to get caught up, feeling like we’re not doing enough - even with ten thousand other things on our plate. We get overwhelmed with having to get a new outfit for every event, needing to start a new workout plan, attempting new diets, and the cycle doesn’t stop. We’re faced with this subconscious pressure to “catch up” every day, but what if we gave ourselves permission to do less?
This habit of always doing more keeps you from putting forth effort towards the things that will positively impact your life and prevents you from truly doing anything well. Join Robin in this encouraging episode and for tips to start doing less with more intention.
Show Highlights:
- Ways the internet has subconsciously pressured us to try to do more
- How to give ourselves permission to do less without backtracking
- How trying to do too much prevents us from doing our best
- Giving yourself permission to do less with more intention
- How do you know where to focus
- Making small changes to make a positive impact
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pallotti's instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:13.2 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. We'll cover it all and |
| 0:23.6 | provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create your own uniquely balanced |
| 0:30.4 | life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. Welcome back to the Balance Life podcast. I'm so glad you're here. Today's episode is really |
| 0:42.9 | meant to be an encouragement to you, an encouragement to you on your health and wellness |
| 0:47.3 | journey as you are striving to take care of yourself, physically, mentally, |
| 0:52.6 | emotionally, and really show up in your life as the best |
| 0:55.6 | version of yourself, which is what we're all about here at the balanced life. As you know, |
| 1:00.2 | yes, I'm a Pilates instructor and we offer a ton of Pilates workouts here to help you build strength |
| 1:06.3 | and feel good from the comfort of your own home. But at the balanced life, we care about so much more than |
| 1:12.9 | just an exercise or even one form of exercise. We care about whole health. And so I want to encourage you |
| 1:20.3 | today on your journey. In today's world, we are inundated with opportunities to do more, right? With our access to unlimited information, |
| 1:30.9 | we get a peek into the lives of so many people and so many lives and really whole worlds |
| 1:37.8 | that we didn't even know existed, whether that's through the internet or Facebook or Instagram. |
| 1:43.5 | I'm sure you can relate, right? |
| 1:45.7 | Just a simple afternoon scroll on Instagram, just a quick, hey, I think I'm just going to check in on |
| 1:50.9 | Instagram, see what's happening, can lead us to believing that we need to start a new workout |
| 1:56.5 | plan or change up our diet or organize our entire closet or start a capsule wardrobe or start a new |
| 2:04.0 | budget or plan an amazing totally Pinterest worthy birthday party or whatever it might be. |
| 2:11.2 | We scroll through and we see pictures of people living their lives and it's so easy to think |
| 2:16.6 | I should do that too. I don't think I'm |
| 2:19.0 | alone in that. Maybe you can relate. Something that, you know, years ago, we didn't really have |
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