Confidence
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a meditation to feel more confident.
This is part 4 of a 7 part series on Freedom from Overwhelm.
This week's meditation series "Addicted to Busyness" is customized from "Are You Addicted To Doing?" by the authors Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter from the October 2015 issue of Mindful Magazine. One of the greatest benefits of meditation is that it gives you more clarity to help you become more productive in your life.
Each episode in this week's meditation series will help you break the cycle of busyness that may be holding you back from achieving your true goals.
All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please head over to www.sipandom.com to find more guided meditations and herbal teas.
Resources: Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. This is Mary Meckley and you are listening to Episode |
| 0:07.9 | 453. And in this week's meditation series, we're exploring how to get more done. those things that mean most to you by letting |
| 0:24.9 | go of distractions that can take you away from accomplishing what's important to you. |
| 0:34.7 | And a lot of the information I've shared in this week's meditation series is from |
| 0:41.7 | the October 2015 issue of Mindful magazine and in that issue there's an article |
| 0:51.8 | on being addicted to busyness. |
| 0:56.0 | On this feeling that you run around all day and you don't get much done, you had a lot of |
| 1:05.0 | moments where you got a lot of small tasks done, but those big projects that mean most to you, you may not have touched. |
| 1:14.6 | And in fact, the authors of this article, Rasmus Hogard and Jacqueline Carter even goes so far |
| 1:25.4 | as to say an addiction to action can be a form of modern day laziness |
| 1:34.0 | because you're really avoiding doing those things that will make the biggest impact in your life |
| 1:43.7 | and I have to say I think it may also things that will make the biggest impact in your life. |
| 1:44.6 | And I have to say, I think it may also have to do with fear. |
| 1:52.6 | Because in order to move forward with your goals, you really have to want to. |
| 2:00.3 | You really have to want it. You really have to want it. |
| 2:01.8 | If you want something, nothing will distract you from it. |
| 2:06.1 | And so when you think about what holds you back, is it laziness? |
| 2:09.9 | You know, I honestly don't know if it's laziness because if you really, really want something, it's amazing what you'll do to get it. |
| 2:22.3 | And so I think that when you do want something, that it's more of a fear that may hold you back. |
| 2:30.8 | Now, I'm not an expert, and I'm sure they did all kinds of research on this, but in my experience |
| 2:38.0 | of working with many people, hundreds of people, I've discovered that what holds people back the most |
| 2:47.6 | is a fear. And in fact, if you ask people who might risk a lot, let's say if you ask |
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