91. The Urgency of Now: 6 Ways to Cultivate Alacrity in Our Lives
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Each of us experience times when we feel disinclined to take action or do a good deed. We put it off until tomorrow or the next day. But what happens when a few days or weeks go by? Kabbalah teaches that this kind of laziness can lead to complacency, which separates us from the Light. In this motivating episode, Monica and Michael discuss how to cultivate alacrity, do more good in the world, and invite more blessings into our lives.
“If you have an idea of something positive you can do, do it as quickly as possible. If you are doing something positive, do it faster, and finish it as quickly as you can.” – Michael Berg
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| 0:00.0 | What this podcast is about is not about, again, how do you become a better person? |
| 0:05.2 | It's, it's an, and again, and it's not just about how not to be passive unless we are battling laziness. |
| 0:12.7 | Each one of us has to find on a consistent basis. |
| 0:16.0 | We are losing. |
| 0:17.5 | We are losing wisdom, consciousness, and, and again, ultimately what our soul came into this |
| 0:23.7 | world to do. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to spiritually hungry podcast episode 91. Wow. 91. I was looking actually at the numbers today. It's over, like over a million downloads so far. Yeah, very exciting. Yeah, very exciting. I always just think it's just the two of us. Yes, it is also just the two of us. Well, that's nice that we have good company. Building castles in the sky. Very excited about our topic today. |
| 0:54.6 | Yes. |
| 0:55.0 | Instead of starting with a story, I'd like to start with a joke. A joke. I love jokes. Don't get your expectations high at all. You know I'm not the joke teller. I wasn't going to say anything, but it's true. You ready? I hope so. I don't know why people get so mad at lazy people. They didn't do anything. |
| 1:10.2 | It's kind of cute. |
| 1:12.2 | Yes, true, cute but untrue. know why people get so mad at lazy people. They didn't do anything. It's kind of cute. |
| 1:12.2 | Yes, true, cute, but untrue. They didn't do anything. But actually, as I will share it today, |
| 1:21.3 | not doing brings great damage. Not doing is still inaction, I suppose. So today we're talking about the struggle |
| 1:28.7 | between downtime and uptime. Because while we work, we do important things. Hopefully, |
| 1:33.9 | most of us can say that. We can't do our best without the balance of restful lazy |
| 1:38.2 | afternoons. That time where we recent our ourselves by unplugging from everything and just being. |
| 1:44.0 | But by the way, those afternoons are only pleasurable when you're not lazy for all of the time. |
| 1:49.4 | Vacation is always much more fun after a lot of work. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, it's only fun for me if I'm like utterly exhausted and like stumbling into the vacation. |
| 1:56.9 | But beyond that, which is where we're really going today, is our consciousness behind our uptime and our downtime. |
| 2:03.3 | When we're working, doing, and striving, are we doing it with alacrity, or are we stressed out and frustrated? |
| 2:09.4 | Are we doing it to the best of our abilities with our fullest energy? |
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