Welcome to Black Girl Burnout, Kelly here. Today I want to talk about how to opt into something I call radical efficiency.

In essence, this episode is all about opting out of wasting your time.

This episode really is just inspired, frankly, by a lot of the work I'm doing on myself

and a lot of the things that I see going on in the world and just the fact that it has become so clear

as I get older that there's only so much time that you have in your life. And because of that,

I'm just impatient and I want my inheritance now like I preach. I want joy. And in order to get joy, then, I have to stop wasting my time on

things that I know are not going to get me where I want to go. And as a result, I have coined this

term that I've told the people in my life that I'm living, which is that I now live with radical efficiency. I want to talk about

what that is, how it shows up in my life, how I want to show up in your life, and of course,

as always leave you with a healing practice. So what is radical efficiency and where did that come

from? I will tell you that for me,

radical efficiency and this concept of this came from just me evaluating areas in my life where I felt

I was wasting time where I was like, Kelly, you're not getting any younger. And there's

things I want to do, goals I want to accomplish, and starting looking at what

was getting in the way of that.

And some of those goals had nothing to do with career or money goals.

Yes, I had those two and still have them.

But also some of those goals just were around having meaningful relationships with people,

having reciprocal friendships and partnership,

having good boundaries with family and healthy family dynamics, and knowing that I was not

going to get to those goals if I kept wasting my time.

Now, as you're listening to this, perhaps you're thinking about all the

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