Be ready, not crazy busy

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Use strategies from emergency rooms to handle stressful times

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0:00.0	Mind the depths of God's Word and ignite your faith with pray.com's new podcast, the heartbeat of faith with me, Dr. Andrew Farley.
0:10.5	The beast raged against him, but he was not equal to the Lord of Lords.
0:14.6	God's chosen hero, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, had defeated evil once and for all.
0:21.7	Listen to the heartbeat of faith on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:33.7	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:38.7	Good morning.
0:40.7	This is Laura.
0:42.7	Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:45.7	Today's tip is to be ready, not crazy busy.
0:50.7	A ready state allows you to deal with life as it comes, without over-complicating things or making yourself anxious and fearful in the process.
1:02.7	Today's tip comes from a TED talk by emergency room Dr. Daria Long.
1:06.7	She discourages people from describing themselves as crazy busy.
1:11.7	As Dr. Long explains, you cannot afford to use crazy to describe your busy, because she says in crazy busy mode, we are simply less capable of handling the busy.
1:24.7	That's because when we are stressed, our brains don't work as well.
1:29.7	The anger and anxiety areas of our brain are activated, while our judgment and impulse control weaken.
1:36.7	We can't function at our best, under those circumstances.
1:41.7	So how do you avoid being crazy busy?
1:45.7	Own the busy, she advises, to do that she proposes ready mode, like in the ER.
1:52.7	She identifies three ways we can move from crazy busy mode to this ready mode.
1:58.7	First, triage.
2:01.7	In an ER, red is immediately life-threatening, yellow is serious, and green is minor.
2:09.7	People who work in the ER absolutely know the difference.
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