Don’t Let Your Busy Schedule Crush You

Buddhability

SGI-USA

Health & Fitness, Self-help, Self-care, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.9 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We all have the same 24 hours in a day. Why is it that one person can accomplish so much more than another in those 24 hours? Buddhism teaches that everything comes down to the state of our inner lives. If our life state is joyful and determined, even a mountain is scalable in a day.

Today’s guest, Ayu Nakazaki, of Los Angeles, struggled with time management and tying her value to her achievements. Today, she tells the story of how she learned to understand time and self-worth from the perspective of Buddhism.

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Resources:

The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, pp 35–36.

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0:00.0	From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is bootability.
0:06.0	The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.
0:19.0	We all have the same 24 hours in a day. So why is it that one person can accomplish so much more than
0:28.6	another in those 24 hours? Or one person has a full schedule but feels joy, while another has a
0:35.7	totally free day but feels sad or even empty. Buddhism teaches
0:40.8	that everything comes down to the state of our inner lives. If our life state is joyful,
0:47.2	even a mountain seems scalable in a day. Today's guest, Ayu Nakazaki of Los Angeles, struggled with time management throughout college.
0:57.0	She juggled many things as a student and often felt like she couldn't keep up, ultimately taking a hit to her self-esteem.
1:04.0	Today, she tells the story of how she learned to understand time and self-worth from the perspective of Buddhism.
1:24.3	Welcome Ayu to bootability. Thank you so much for joining from L.A. in your brand new apartment.
1:29.7	Congratulations. We'll get started with just you giving an intro so you can share your name, your age, and I know you recently graduated from college, so just share, yeah,
1:35.9	a little bit of background. Hi, I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm
1:42.2	I'm 22 years old, and I just graduated from my, I just got my bachelor's degree. Yay!
1:51.5	Super excited. And now I'm yeah, I moved to, well, I'm originally from Hawaii. I'm born and raised in Honolulu. And then for college, I moved to Southern California. So that's where I've been for the last four years.
2:02.6	And I just got a job.
2:03.6	So now I'm going to be working in LA for at least two years.
2:07.6	So I'm super-diver excited about that.
2:09.6	You're like in a brand new chapter.
2:11.6	So this is a very exciting time to get you and to interview you.
2:16.6	So I'd love to hear like just a little bit about your
2:20.2	life growing up. And I know that you grew up in a household with Buddhism. So if you can tell me just
2:25.5	like a little bit about what that was like. Yeah. Well, my parents, my parents are basically
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