Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called

Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?

Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke

them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to

marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.

Welcome to the gathering pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Today's gathering room is about something that I just really, really, really needed to know about five minutes ago. The moral of the story, I'll beat myself to the punch right here. Spoiler

alert, the moral is there is less to do than you think. There is less to do

than you think. And I just tried to do a whole lot more than I could with a Facebook that

wasn't working and then I just realized I'll just have to do Instagram. There's less to do.

There's not more to do. It's just another example of the way these days, every time I sit down to do something,

I think I have a lot to do, and it turns out I'm doing too much.

It turns out that I'm driving myself crazy, ruining relationships and my help by doing

what I think needs to be done when, in fact, a lot less needs to be done.

And our culture is so

productivity obsessed, right? So I think we all grew up with this idea that if we're not constantly producing something and constantly doing something proactive and

virtuous and constructive, then we're not doing enough. And I believe we're doing much, much,

much, too much. We've had great sickness in my house. Everybody's been sick. I've been sick.

The kid's sick. The dog is sick. Everybody's sick. And it really taught me all over again,

as I learned during the 12 years that I could barely move,

that when you're given the gift of physical limitation, it pairs down what you decide has to happen.

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