ITL177: Balancing Life: How to Stretch Time and Add More to Your Plate

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question about balancing the items in your life and how to know when you’ve taken on too much.

Before we get into this week’s episode I wanted to say a few things about my new children’s’ book Henry Hodges Needs a Friend.

I’m excited about this book because it’s my first rhyming book.
The artist Colleen Madden did such a fantastic job the illustrations.
I’m also excited because I finally got dedicate a book to a lady who has been so important to our family.

I don’t think there is anyone who has accomplished anything great that didn’t feel like they’ve taken on a little too much.

I don’t know anybody who has accomplished anything great that sleeps 7-9 hours a night consistently.
Sometimes we need to catch up, but we can go for periods of time “running and gunning.”

When you find yourself dropping the ball on things you’re committed to, then you may be taking on too much.

I think you can balance more things in your life more than you think you can, but you do have to place barriers around your important goals and principles.
It’s inevitable that as you get busier there will be people who do not understand why you don’t live your life like you did in junior high school.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.
0:10.4	Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:13.4	Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy.
0:18.2	Andy, thanks for joining us again.
0:20.1	Thank you, David. Thank you for being our host, David Loy. Andy, thanks for joining us again. Thank you, David. Thank you for being our
0:22.9	host, David Loy. Absolutely. I'm thrilled to be here. This is so fun. I love that we just get to hang out
0:28.6	and talk and address people's questions, talk about things that are going on in your life. And one
0:33.6	exciting thing that I know you're always excited when this happens. Well, that brings up
0:39.1	another question. First of all, you have a brand new children's book that just came out recently
0:43.7	called Henry Hodges Needs a Friend. Tell us about that real quick. Man, I am so excited
0:49.5	about that for several different reasons. I'm excited about it because it is something that I've always wanted to do,
0:57.3	which is to do a rhyming story.
1:00.6	And so this is all in rhyme.
1:04.0	And it's very cool that I am excited about it because the artist that the publisher,
1:14.2	Tommy Nelson, the artist that they selected,
1:16.0	good grief.
1:20.1	I've never met her, but I am a fan now.
1:24.6	I mean, when they sent me some of the stuff that she was doing, I was blown away because I knew that it would be so great that kids would just be mesmerized
1:30.9	and would want to see this book over and over and over again because of those pictures.
1:36.8	I mean, you know, the words are pretty good, but the pictures are unbelievable.
1:41.4	Because I've got, you know, this little boy is like imagining because he's, he's a lonely boy and his parents have promised they're going to get him a pet. And so, but it's going to be an unusual one. And so he's trying to imagine, you know, what, what could this be? You know, is this like a hamster who flies? Is it, you know, a cat who barks? Is it a
2:05.9	groundhog who tells jokes? Is it a cow, a miniature cow for my backpack who gives chocolate
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