Break Up with Busyness & Let Go of Your To-Do List

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

304. Break Up with Busyness & Let Go of Your To-Do List Amanda delves into her relationship with Busyness and how she’s working through it. We’ll touch on topics such as the pervasive culture of busyness, productivity as a measure of self-worth, and the struggle to define personal boundaries and prioritize genuine happiness (after some hilarious banter between Glennon and Abby about how to deal with “disgusting” things in a relationship). Discover: -Why Busyness is such a pervasive and oppressive cult for so many of us; -How to decouple your self-esteem and identity from your productivity; -The actionable tactic Amanda is using in her break up with Busyness; and -How your pets prove that the religion of busyness is a lie. Check out these episodes, too: 281. How Amanda Finally Calmed Her Brain & Her Letter from Love with Liz Gilbert 261. How to Stretch Time with Jenny Odell 139. No More Grind: How to Finally Rest with Tricia Hersey 93. BURNOUT: Do You Feel Half Alive? with Emily and Amelia Nagoski

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0:00.0	Hi everybody welcome to We Can Do Hard Things, super excited.
0:17.0	We say that every time.
0:18.4	We do with thesaurus.
0:19.5	Because everyone were like, I'm so excited for this episode. Super. Okay well how
0:26.4	I tell the truth I'm just a little I don't know this has been a hard week.
0:30.8	I'm so tired I'm just like I'm not excited to do this and I'm
0:36.2	fucking sick. She is. We can do our things. I'm feeling I'm feeling I'm feeling
0:41.6	I'm feeling I'm feeling I think that's refreshing yeah I'm feeling really heavy I have my
0:46.1	sinuses I've got to clean out my sinuses with a netty pot which makes Glenn and Gag
0:51.6	it's I mean they're amazing. They're amazing. I wish I could
0:55.9	Nettie Pot my whole life and my whole body. Not charming though, the opposite of
1:00.6	charming. I don't know. I have the beholder. I think it's amazing.
1:04.8	You're just something with your zit popping. I am a big person in that but like my face is all
1:11.1	contorted and stuff's coming out and like it's just not pretty it's not my finest moment
1:18.1	Mm-hmm in the morning when Abby gets into the bathroom. I call it the elephant refuge because it's just like it's just
1:26.2	these noises that sound like trunks like, hr that's what goes on in the bathroom for a long time.
1:37.0	And when she has a cold, it just feels like many new elephants
1:40.0	have been added to the refuge in the morning.
1:43.0	There needs to be some clarification here.
1:45.6	When I shower, I blow my nose.
1:48.3	So I'm smart.
1:49.0	Some people do, some people don't.
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