Episode 48: Busyness Junkies: Breaking the Habit of Stress and Over-Scheduling

Help Me Be Me

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Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 April 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This is about the value of stepping back from your preoccupations to do more nothing. Busyness is a cultural habit that is also an addiction. Physiologically as well as on a level of personal identity. Are you one of those people who is sooo busy and you can’t tell where the time is going? When you see someone and they ask how you are – do you find yourself inclined to say, “I am soooo busy.” It’s a state we can all relate to. It’s also often a boast hidden in a complaint. Culturally we have all agreed to take on this state of life – thanks to texting and smart phones and email and social media. They are making you mentally connected to all people and obligations and stores and humans simultaneously. Hence- the empty private time with yourself, alone is gone! The biggest downside of the busyness pattern is you trade your life, day by day, to this insecurity. It can happen without you noticing, quite simply because your not present. You are caught up in your busy thoughts. So that’s what today’s podcast is about: slowing down – and stopping. Literally, I am going to promote the idea of doing nothing. Nothing but being. Hanging out. Nothing on your agenda. No one to respond to – nothing to pick up, attend, return. When was the last time you sat in an extended amount of time – like that? The episode has three parts. Part 1: Why aim to do nothing. Part 2: Self-Diagnosis. Part 3: 3 Tools to help you free up your time. And to download the Journal Exercises mentioned in the episode head here: https://teaspoonofhappy.squarespace.com/busyness AND if from April-June 2015, if you haven’t yet, please enter the Headspace contest to win a year awesome mind-soothing meditations! http://www.teaspoonofhappy.com/headspace-contest This episode is dedicated to Irene May Bates - my grandmother and one of my heroes. She makes the most valuable moments in your day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi friends it's Sarah May and this is a podcast I'm dedicating to Irene May Bates, my grandmother.
0:19.1	And it's called Business Junkie because it's about breaking out of the culture of over scheduling your life
0:28.6	because we have a collective habit of kind of keeping ourselves stressed out and just scheduled to the
0:37.6	nines.
0:39.9	So what I'm going to talk about, the value of stepping back from your preoccupations to do nothing.
0:47.0	That's right, nothing.
0:49.0	And why to quit busyness as a habit cold turkey right now.
0:56.8	So part one is about the why, this is important.
1:00.4	Part two is kind of a self-diagnosis journal exercise.
1:04.0	And Part 3 is a set of three tools to create more personal time.
1:08.0	And all of my references will be in the blog version of this post.
1:11.0	And you can check it out later this week on
1:13.8	teaspoon. So are you one of those people who is so busy and you just can't tell
1:18.8	where your time is going and maybe when you see somebody and they ask how you
1:22.0	are do you find yourself inclined to say,
1:24.3	I am just so busy? Because that's a state we can all relate to, and it's often a boast kind of hidden in a complaint because culturally we've all kind of agreed
1:37.7	to take on this state as something to strive for or something that means you are accomplished.
1:45.0	And also thanks to texting and smartphones and email and social media,
1:49.0	it's kind of normal. Everybody's doing it.
1:52.0	So they are all these things are making you mentally
1:56.2	connected to all people, all obligations, all stores, all humans
2:00.5	simultaneously. Hence the empty private time with yourself and being alone, being
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