Are You A Servant To This?

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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What if you could take back control of your attention and transform the quality of your relationships? Join me as I share insights from my ongoing 90-day booze break, where the absence of alcohol has opened my eyes to the constant pull of digital distractions. Inspired by Robin Sharma's "The Wealth Money Can't Buy" and Cal Newport's "Deep Work," this episode is a journey into the power of presence and the competitive edge that focus brings in our fast-paced world. Listen as I recount a tellin...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.7	Well, hello there, my friend. How are you today? Got to tell you, I'm really enjoying my 90-day
0:20.4	booze break, my 90-day challenge.
0:23.1	If you're in Self-Coaching Society, I know many of you are doing a 90-day challenge
0:27.7	in different life areas with me.
0:31.3	But here we are over five weeks in, I think coming up to six weeks.
0:35.7	And what's interesting is as I pour something that I do,
0:41.7	right, so for example, have some wine. If that is on pause and I'm not doing it right now,
0:48.3	naturally I become more conscious and I start paying attention to things that maybe I wouldn't
0:54.1	have been able to place my attention
0:56.1	upon if I weren't in this more just simply conscious, alert, clear-minded place all of the time.
1:04.6	And as I shared in a recent call that I did called Screen Free and Loving It,
1:08.8	one thing that I've observed is just how easy it is to be on your phone constantly, constantly,
1:15.2	constantly.
1:16.5	And I wanted to read a page from Robin Sharma's book, The Wealth Money Can't Buy, with you today
1:24.7	because I love this page, I love this point of view. It's something that I absolutely
1:30.2	agree with. And also, one thing that I've observed this year so far is that the ability to focus,
1:40.0	the ability to be present is so powerful. In fact, Cal Newport, who wrote the book, Deep Work,
1:47.9	he says that the ability to focus is a competitive advantage in today's world. And when you see
1:55.7	people constantly reaching for their phones, constantly checking in, being bombarded with
2:00.7	notifications, social media scrolling, being bombarded with notifications,
2:01.8	social media scrolling, it reduces our ability to focus, aka cognitive decline, which is what
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