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Good Life Project

Make Better Decisions Faster | Dismantling Mindfulness

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Good Life Riff: One of the most critical keys to success, in any endeavor, is knowing what to say yes or no to.

The faster you can choose, the more time you can spend actually doing the things that matter, and walking away from the things that don't. In today's GLP Riff, we share a simple question that serves as a powerful decision-making tool designed to simplify your decisions, reduce "decision fatigue" and lead you more quickly to the things that matter most.

Good Life Science: In our Good Life Science segment, we're diving into some fascinating new research on mindfulness.

Yes, mindfulness. We know, there's been a lotta research on this topic. But this is different. The big challenge with mindfulness, when it comes to science, is that people are lumping a bunch of different practices under the umbrella of mindfulness, then making claims about what it can do. But, a new study finally dismantled the core elements of the practice (focused awareness and open monitoring) and showed how each does something very different, and has it's own special-sauce benefit. And, as always, for those who want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.

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0:00.0

So one of the things I have learned about this crazy thing called success over the years

0:09.3

is a lot of it comes down to figuring out ways to be able to understand what to say yes

0:14.3

or no to quickly and easily.

0:16.9

And there's one question that I've been using as a metric that has helped me in a really

0:20.9

dramatic way lately.

0:22.4

Today's riff I'm going to share that question with you.

0:24.4

I'm going to walk you through some examples of how I put it to use my own life and maybe

0:28.4

offer an invitation for you to explore that same thing because anything that makes us

0:34.5

understand what to say yes and no to a lot more quickly and easily is something that

0:40.1

we all want to do more of and we want in our lives.

0:43.5

And in today's good life science update, if you've been listening at all for a few weeks

0:50.0

to a few years now, you know that I am a student of meditation and mindfulness.

0:54.4

There's a ton of research that's come out on it.

0:57.0

It's kind of all over the place and we've got a pretty fascinating new study that breaks

1:01.6

down the elements of what we're talking about when we're talking about mindfulness and

1:06.8

then researches them independently to try and understand how they affect us differently.

1:12.8

That's where we're going.

1:13.8

I'm Jonathan Fields.

1:15.5

This is Good Life Project.

1:18.0

So I don't know about you, but heading into the holidays every year, there can be some people

1:27.2

love this season.

1:28.5

Some people don't want to run screaming away from it.

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