Peaceful Breathing, Day 3 Simplify to Amplify Meditation Series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Be guided with daily insight and guided meditation to determine the 20% of your activities that account for 80% of your time. Streamline or eliminate time-consuming tasks to free up more time for what truly matters.
Welcome to our meditation series on harnessing the power of the 80/20 rule to enhance productivity and efficiency in your life. The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, suggests that roughly 80% of results come from 20% of efforts. In this series, we will explore how you can apply this principle to prioritize tasks, streamline your workflow, and achieve more with less effort.
Each meditation in this series will guide you through practices that help you identify the most impactful actions, focus your energy on them, and eliminate distractions that may be hindering your progress. By cultivating mindfulness and intentionality, you can enhance your productivity and create space for what truly matters in your life.
Whether you're looking to boost your work efficiency, manage your time more effectively, or simply find more balance in your daily activities, this series is designed to support you on your journey toward greater productivity and fulfillment. Join us as we explore the transformative potential of the 80/20 rule in your life.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: The 80/20 Mindfulness Challenge
This week, spend 80% of your meditation or mindfulness practice focusing on the present moment, and 20% on reflecting on how you can apply the 80/20 principle to other areas of your life.
A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:
You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,065 of your daily guided meditation. I'm Mary Meckley and I |
| 0:08.7 | welcome you to day three of this week's series. We are exploring a theme as we always do and I share with you |
| 0:18.6 | insight at the very beginning of each episode followed by a guided meditation where you're |
| 0:26.5 | introduced to a meditation technique that you can do while you're |
| 0:32.0 | meditating and I hope you'll also do it as you go |
| 0:35.7 | throughout your day so these techniques are not only for your time meditating |
| 0:42.0 | weave them through your most stressful moments of each day. |
| 0:47.0 | Today, your featured technique is a breathing technique |
| 0:52.0 | and this is a breathing technique that supports the theme. |
| 0:57.0 | Simplify to amplify the 80-20 principle. |
| 1:03.0 | This is referred to as Pareto's principle and throughout this series you are engaged |
| 1:11.0 | in a weekly challenge. We always have a weekly challenge to reinforce the |
| 1:17.6 | week's theme. Well your challenge for this week is to think about what it is that feeds or fuels your passion. Those things that make |
| 1:30.6 | you unique, they might be hobbies or special interests or maybe it's some kind of art that you do or share or a sport that you're engaged in. These are things that you may |
| 1:46.7 | have let go of because as life creep said you may find yourself swept up with different challenges or maybe |
| 1:57.2 | you're working really hard and focused on your career or maybe you're recovering |
| 2:01.8 | from an illness or you're going through a difficult relationship. |
| 2:06.0 | All of these life situations that we all experience in our own way, they can derail your passion. |
| 2:17.1 | And your passion is often what fuels your life. So I shared with you in yesterday's episode how I went to a |
| 2:27.7 | sailing club and the people there were so passionate about sailing that it was the focus of a good part of their lives. |
| 2:38.0 | They would wake up each morning, checking the weather, touching base with each other about the weekends upcoming regatta, |
| 2:46.9 | or they would be working and they'd be talking to their colleagues and whoever would listen all about their passion. |
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